NOAA NCEI Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature

The NOAA NCEI (National Center for Environmental Information) Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature (ERSST) dataset is a global monthly sea surface temperature dataset derived from the International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Dataset (ICOADS). Production of the ERSST is on a 2 degree grid with spatial completeness enhanced using statistical methods. This monthly analysis begins in January 1854 continuing to the present and includes anomalies computed with respect to a 1971-2000 monthly climatology. The newest version of ERSST, version 5, uses new data sets from ICOADS Release 3.0 (Sea Surface Temperatures) SST; SST comes from Argo floats above 5 meters, Hadley Centre sea ice and SST version 2 (HadISST.2) ice concentration. ERSSTv5 has improved SST spatial and temporal variability by * reducing spatial filtering in training the reconstruction functions Empirical Orthogonal Teleconnections (EOTs), * removing high-latitude damping in EOTs, * adding 10 more EOTs in the Arctic. ERSSTv5 improved absolute SST by switching from using Nighttime Marine Air Temperature (NMAT) as a reference to buoy SST as a reference in correcting ship SST biases. Scientists have further improved ERSSTv5 by using unadjusted First-Guess instead of adjusted First-Guess.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1854-01-01T00:00:00Z
    End:  2021-02-15T00:00:00Z

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1854-01-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2021-02-15T00:00:00Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat N/A
Bounding Box South Lat N/A
Bounding Box West Long N/A
Bounding Box East Long N/A
Spatial Representation N/A
Spatial Resolution N/A
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Additional Information N/A
Resource Format NetCDF (Binary)
NetCDF4 (Binary)
Standardized Resource Format NetCDF
Asset Size 316.00 MB
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Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name Zaihua Ji
Resource Support Email zji@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive
Distributor NCAR Research Data Archive
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Metadata Contact Email rdahelp@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization NCAR Research Data Archive

Author National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Publisher Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory
Publication Date 2019-03-27
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/JZ08-3W17
Alternate Identifier ds277.9
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category oceans
Progress onGoing
Metadata Date 2024-01-03T15:11:32-07:00
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.rda::ds277.9
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce. (2019). NOAA NCEI Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature. Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/JZ08-3W17. Accessed 25 April 2024.

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