ESA Sea Surface Temperature Climate Change Initiative (SST_cci): Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Level 3 Collated (L3C) Climate Data Record, version 2.0

This v2.0 SST_cci Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Level 3 Collated (L3C) Climate Data Record (CDR) consists of stable, low-bias sea surface temperature (SST) data from the AVHRR series of satellite instruments. It covers the period 08/1981 - 12/2016. This L3C product provides these SST data on a 0.05 regular latitude-longitude grid and collated to include all orbits for a day (separated into daytime and nighttime files).



The dataset has been produced as part of the European Space Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative Sea Surface Temperature project(ESA SST_cci). The data products from SST CCI accurately map the surface temperature of the global oceans over the period 1981 to 2016 using observations from many satellites. The data provide independently quantified SSTs to a quality suitable for climate research.



Data are made freely and openly available under a Creative Commons License by Attribution (CC By 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ .

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Date (Publication)
2019-08-02T21:30:30
Date (Creation)
2019-08-02T21:30:30
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https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/13b5cf97be4446428d3396723864e121
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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 13b5cf97be4446428d3396723864e121
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doi / http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/13b5cf97be4446428d3396723864e121
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Embury, Owen

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Bulgin, C.E.

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Mittaz, J.

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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
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Dataset
Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

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Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/esacci_sst_terms_and_conditions_v2.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under unclassified use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
Spatial representation type
Grid
Language
English
Topic category
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
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Begin date
1981-08-24T00:00:00
End date
2016-12-31T23:59:59
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
Name Version

Data are in NetCDF format
Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

support@ceda.ac.uk

Distributor
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/13b5cf97be4446428d3396723864e121

CEDA Data Catalogue Page
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/sst/data/CDR_v2/AVHRR/L3C/v2.0/

DOWNLOAD
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gdj3.20/full

Merchant, C. J., Embury, O., Roberts-Jones, J., Fiedler, E., Bulgin, C. E., Corlett, G. K., Good, S., McLaren, A., Rayner, N., Morak-Bozzo, S. and Donlon, C. (2014), Sea surface temperature datasets for climate applications from Phase 1 of the European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative (SST CCI). Geoscience Data Journal. doi: 10.1002/gdj3.20

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://www.esa-sst-cci.org/PUG/documents.htm

ESA CCI SST documentation
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Creative Commons License by attribution
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://dap.ceda.ac.uk/thredds/fileServer/neodc/esacci/sst/doc/CDR_v2/SST_CCI-PUG-UKMO-201_Issue_2-signed.pdf

Product User Guide
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0236-x

Merchant, C.J., Embury, O., Bulgin, C.E., Block T., Corlett, G.K., Fiedler, E., Good, S.A., Mittaz, J., Rayner, N.A., Berry, D., Eastwood, S., Taylor, M., Tsushima, Y., Waterfall, A., Wilson, R., Donlon, C. Satellite-based time-series of sea-surface temperature since 1981 for climate applications, Scientific Data 6:223 (2019). http://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0236-x

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://climate.esa.int/projects/sea-surface-temperature/

ESA CCI Sea Surface Temperature project website
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Dataset

Conformance result

Title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement

Data were processed by the ESA CCI SST project team and supplied to the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) for archiving in the context of the ESA CCI Open Data Portal project and the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO).

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13b5cf97be4446428d3396723864e121 XML
Metadata language
English
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UTF8
Parent identifier
Collection of Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Data of the Global Oceans as part of the ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI)

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Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-12-04T03:16:50
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3
Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

orthoimagery


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