ESA Sea Surface Temperature Climate Change Initiative (SST_cci): Obs4MIPS monthly-averaged sea surface temperature data, v2.1

This dataset contains monthly 1 degree averages of sea surface temperature data in Obs4MIPS format, from the European Space Agency (ESA)'s Climate Change Initiatve (CCI) Sea Surface Temperature (SST) v2.1 analysis.

The data covers the period from 1981-2017, with the data from 1981 to 2016 coming from the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) project of the ESA CCI project. The data for 2017 were generated using the same approach but under funding from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).

This particular product has been generated for inclusion in Obs4MIPs (Observations for Model Intercomparisons Project), which is an activity to make observational products more accessible for climate model intercomparisons.

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/

When citing this dataset please also cite the associated data paper: 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

Date (Publication): 2021-02-25T08:12:37

Date (Creation): 2021-02-25T08:12:37

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/5e5da31f2ae047b997ddbbdd372d31cd

Citation identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 5e5da31f2ae047b997ddbbdd372d31cd

Citation identifier: doi / 10.5285/5e5da31f2ae047b997ddbbdd372d31cd

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Merchant, Christopher J.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Good, S.A.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Embury, Owen	Unavailable	Author
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

SST
ESA Climate Change Initiative

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

orthoimagery

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: 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

Begin date: 1981-10-01T00:00:00

End date: 2017-12-31T23:59:59

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/5e5da31f2ae047b997ddbbdd372d31cd	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/sst/data/obs4MIPs/UReading/ESA-CCI-SST-v2-1/mon/tos/gn/v20201130/	DOWNLOAD

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

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
	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4543703	ESA CCI SST v2.1 Obs4MIPS Technical Note

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://esgf-node.llnl.gov/projects/obs4mips/	Obs4MIPs webpage

Hierarchy level: 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). The data for 2017 were generated using the same approach but under funding from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).

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File identifier: 5e5da31f2ae047b997ddbbdd372d31cd XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: 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: 2025-12-07T03:20:19

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)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Point of contact

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