Independent Variables (Grids)

Latitude (projection_y_coordinate)

grid: /lat (degree_north) ordered (89.875S) to (89.875N) by 0.25 N= 720 pts :grid

Longitude (projection_x_coordinate)

grid: /lon (degree_east) periodic (0.125E) to (0.125W) by 0.25 N= 1440 pts :grid

Time (time)

grid: /T (julian_day) ordered (1 Sep 1981) to (6 Jul 2025) by 1.0 N= 16015 pts :grid

zlev

grid: /zlev (meters) ordered [ (0.0)] :grid

Other Info

datatype

shortarraytype

missing_value

-999

pointwidth

1.0

scale_factor

0.01

units

Celsius_scale

valid_max

1200

valid_min

-1200

standard units*

degree_Kelvin above 273.15

history

Final file created using preliminary as first guess, and 3 days of AVHRR data. Preliminary uses only 1 day of AVHRR data.

References

Reynolds, et al.(2007) Daily High-Resolution-Blended Analyses for Sea Surface Temperature (available at https://doi.org/10.1175/2007JCLI1824.1). Banzon, et al.(2016) A long-term record of blended satellite and in situ sea-surface temperature for climate monitoring, modeling and environmental studies (available at https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-165-2016). Huang et al. (2020) Improvements of the Daily Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature (DOISST) Version v02r01, submitted.Climatology is based on 1971-2000 OI.v2 SST. Satellite data: Pathfinder AVHRR SST and Navy AVHRR SST. Ice data: NCEP Ice and GSFC Ice.

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