ESA Sea Surface Temperature Climate Change Initiative (ESA SST CCI): GHRSST Multi-Product ensemble (GMPE)

The ESA Sea Surface Temperature Climate Change Initiative (ESA SST CCI) dataset accurately maps the surface temperature of the global oceans over the period 1991 to 2010 using observations from many satellites. The data provides an independently quantified SST to a quality suitable for climate research.

The GHRSST Multi-Product Ensemble (GMPE) dataset is an ensemble median of the ESA SST CCI spatially complete analysis with other level 4 SST analysis products. Anomalies of the analyses relative to the median, and the ensemble standard deviation are also provided.

All the data in the GMPE files are regridded onto a common 0.25 degree regular latitude longitude grid and there are

SST fields for each day. The GMPE for the ESA SST CCI long term product covers the period September 1991 to December

2010. GMPE files are also available for ESA SST CCI demonstration product 1 (which covers June to August 2007).

Date (Publication): 2014-12-03T12:00:00

Date (Creation): 2014-12-03T12:00:00

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/e0659b01259145c8bfb0de6eb12c2690

Citation identifier: NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) / e0659b01259145c8bfb0de6eb12c2690

Citation identifier: doi / http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/7BAF7407-2F15-406C-8F09-CB9DC10392AA

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Fiedler, E. K.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	McLaren, A.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Merchant, Christopher J.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Donlon, Craig	Unavailable	Author
NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)		neodc@rl.ac.uk	Custodian
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)		neodc@rl.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

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.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under any 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: 1991-08-31T23:00:00

End date: 2010-12-31T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
The GMPE is formed of daily NetCDF files containing various fields including the median of the ensemble, the anomaly of each ensemble member from that median and the SST gradients from each product. Where we do not have permission to redistribute data, the anomaly and gradient fields are filled with the missing data indicator (which is found in the _FillValue attribute to the variables and is set to -32768). The median_type variable, which reveals which analysis supplied the median at each location, has also been filled with the missing data value. File names for the GMPE files are in the form 20101231120000-UKMO-L4_GHRSST-SST-GMPEREAN-GLOB-v02.0-fv02.0.nc.The first eight digits give the year (first four digits) followed by the month and the day (two digits each). For the period June to August 2007 there are GMPE files that contain the ESA SST CCI demonstration product 1 in addition to the analyses compared over the full period of the long term product. These have GLOB_DM in their file names in place of GLOB.

Name

Version

The GMPE is formed of daily NetCDF files containing various fields including the median of the ensemble, the anomaly of each ensemble member from that median and the SST gradients from each product. Where we do not have permission to redistribute data, the anomaly and gradient fields are filled with the missing data indicator (which is found in the _FillValue attribute to the variables and is set to -32768). The median_type variable, which reveals which analysis supplied the median at each location, has also been filled with the missing data value.

File names for the GMPE files are in the form 20101231120000-UKMO-L4_GHRSST-SST-GMPEREAN-GLOB-v02.0-fv02.0.nc.The first eight digits give the year (first four digits) followed by the month and the day (two digits each). For the period June to August 2007 there are GMPE files that contain the ESA SST CCI demonstration product 1 in addition to the analyses compared over the full period of the long term product. These have GLOB_DM in their file names in place of GLOB.

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/e0659b01259145c8bfb0de6eb12c2690	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/sst/data/gmpe/CDR_V1/	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00254.1	The ESA Climate Change Initiative: satellite data records for essential climate variables</a>; R. Hollmann, C.J. Merchant, R. Saunders, C. Downy, M.Buchwitz, A. Cazenave, E. Chuvieco, P. Defourny, G. de Leeuw,R. Forsberg, T.Holzer-Popp, F. Paul, S. Sandven, S. Sathyendranath, M. van Roozendael, W.Wagner; Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00254.1

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://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/	Creative Commons License by Attribution

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.esa-sst-cci.org/sites/default/files/Documents/public/SST_CCI-CRDP-UKMO-001_Issue-1-Signed-accepted.pdf	Climate Research Data Package

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.esa-sst-cci.org/PUG/documents.htm	ESA CCI SST documentation

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci_sst/data/gmpe/README-gmpe	README for the GHRSST Multi-Product Ensemble (GMPE) data product

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/7BAF7407-2F15-406C-8F09-CB9DC10392AA	DOI for dataset

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.esa-sst-cci.org/sites/default/files/Documents/public/SST_CCI-PUG-UKMO-001_Issue-3-signed-accepted.pdf	Product User Guide

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/sst/metadata/sample_images/GMPE.png	Sample Image

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
	https://zenodo.org/record/7356277/files/SST_CCI-QuickStartGuide-Issue-1.pdf	Quick Start Guide to ESA CCI SST Products

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 and supplied to the NEODC by the ESA CCI SST project team.

Metadata

File identifier: e0659b01259145c8bfb0de6eb12c2690 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: 2026-02-05T03:05:17

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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