Sea Surface Temperature Data

Region Service

Obtain L4 sea and ocean data at 0.05 degree resolution for a particular bounding box.

You may use this page to to request sea surface temperature (SST) data from the European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative (climate.esa.int/en/projects/sea-surface-temperature/) in time/space averaged form. The underlying data are from the CCI climate data record v2.1, described in the paper referenced below.

Ongoing extension of this dataset over time is supported by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (climate.copernicus.eu). This region service is supported by the National Centre for Earth Observation (www.nceo.ac.uk).

The dataset will be prepared in netcdf4 format at the temporal resolution and spatial bounding box specified in the request form below.

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* You will be notified by e-mail when the job is complete. Link(s) will be provided in this e-mail to download the output data file(s).

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Job Parameters

Time Resolution		N-day period
Spatial Resolution - Longitude (degrees)
Spatial Resolution - Latitude (degrees)
Start Date	Year Month Day
End Date	Year Month Day
Longitude of bounding box (degrees east)
Latitude of bounding box (degrees north)
Width in degrees
Height in degrees
Exclude data above sea ice threshold		Sea Ice Exclusion Threshold %
Include post-hoc SST bias adjustments
Generate Absolute SST or Anomaly
Generate sea-ice fraction
Error Correlation in Time (Days)
Error Correlation In Space (Degrees)
Output file format

Consent and Data License

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The data produced by this service are covered by a CC BY 4.0 license. I agree to acknowledge the ESA Climate Change Initiative and the SST CCI project and to cite both of the following references in any reports or publications using data obtained from and derived from this service: (1) in respect of the underlying dataset, 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. and Donlon, C. (2019), Satellite-based time-series of sea-surface temperature since 1981 for climate applications. Scientific Data 6, 223, doi:10.1038/s41597-019-0236-x, and (2) in respect of the additional adjustments applied, Merchant, C. J. and Embury, O. (2020) Adjusting for desert-dust-related biases in a climate data record of sea surface temperature. Remote Sensing, 12 (16). 2554. ISSN 2072-4292 doi:10.3390/rs12162554

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For any questions, suggestions or issues with using this service, please contact n.f.mccarroll@reading.ac.uk.