Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR) Re-processing for Climate (ARC) Dataset of Sea Surface Temperature Retrievals

The AATSR Reprocessing for Climate (ARC) dataset consists of Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR) multimission data which has been reprocessed using various algorithms and in-situ contemporaneous measurements, to provide update retrievals of Sea Surface Temperature (SST) and assess their accuracy. ARC reprocesses the ATSR1, ATSR2 and AATSR data using new cloud detection and SST retrievals.



The main ARC objective was to reduce regional biases in retrieved sea surface temperature (SST) to less than 0.1 K for all global oceans while creating a very homogeneous record with a stability (lack of drift in the observing system and analysis) of 0.05 K decade.



The Level 3 ARC data products are available for ATSR1, ATSR2 and AATSR and in the version 1 release are currently available from 1991 to 2009, producing a homogeneous record of sea surface temperature for this period. Version 1.1 data are available. The previous version 1 data continues to be available. The ARC project was led by Chris Merchant of the University of Edinburgh/NCEO and funded by NERC and the UK Government.

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Date (Publication)
2011-07-06T13:45:37
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2011-07-06T13:45:37
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https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/ff8a7f27b827c108dd9756adffaaa942
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NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) / ff8a7f27b827c108dd9756adffaaa942
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Embury, Owen

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Merchant, Christopher J.

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  • AATSR

  • ARC

  • Sea Surface Temperature

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • atmospheric conditions
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  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Begin date
1991-05-31T23:00:00
End date
2012-04-07T23:00:00
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WGS 84
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https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/ff8a7f27b827c108dd9756adffaaa942

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https://www.earthsystemcog.org/projects/obs4mips/

The Obs4Mips 503 project
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https://www.eumetsat.int/cs/idcplg?IdcService=GET_FILE&dDocName=pdf_conf_p59_s2_03_embury_v&allowInterrupt=1&noSaveAs=1&RevisionSelectionMethod=LatestReleased

Embury, O; Merchant, C; Berry, D & Kent, E; A REPROCESSING FOR CLIMATE OF SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE FROM THE ALONG-TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETERS, 2011

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http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/arc/doc/v1.1/notesOnVersion.txt

ARC v1.1 Notes on versioning text file
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http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/arc/doc/v1.0/ARC-SST-v1.0-briefing-Rev-1.pdf

ARC v1.0 Briefing Document
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http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/arc/doc/v1.1/README.txt

ARC v1.1 Filename and Data Description
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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

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2010-12-08
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions


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