Sea Surface Temperature Data

Obtain L4 sea and ocean timeseries for a particular bounding box.

You may use this page to order Version 3 sea surface temperature (SST) data from University of Reading / National Centre for Earth Observation in partnership with the UK Met Office and Danish Meteorological Institute.

Reprocessed data to 2021 were generated for the European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative (https://climate.esa.int/en/projects/sea-surface-temperature/), for 2022 the dataset was extended for the Copernicus Climate Change Service, and the extension from January 2023 to recent time is funded by the UK Earth Observation Climate Information Service (https://eocis.org). This re-gridding and time-series extraction service is supported by the National Centre for Earth Observation (https://www.nceo.ac.uk), funded by the Natural Environment Research Council.

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

1. Enter your email address.*
2. Define parameters for your time-series job.
3. Consent to your email address being temporarily stored and accept the license for using the output data.
4. Submit the request.

* 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). Data files will be available for download for 7 days after the job completes.

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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 %
Generate Absolute SST or Anomaly	Anomaly Absolute
Generate sea-ice fraction
Error Correlation in Time (Days)
Error Correlation In Space (Degrees)
Output file format	CSV netcdf4

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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 the following reference in any reports or publications using data obtained from and derived from this service: Embury, O., Merchant, C.J., Good, S.A., Rayner, N.A., Høyer, J.L., Atkinson, C., Block, T., Alerskans, E., Pearson, K.J., Worsfold, M., McCarroll, N., Donlon, C. Satellite-based time-series of sea-surface temperature since 1980 for climate applications. Scientific Data 11, 326 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03147-w

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