SST anomaly from KAPLAN EXTENDED v2: Statistically homogenous concatenation of Kaplan et al [1998] OS SST and Reynolds and Smith [1994] NCEP OI analyses; the latter gets degraded to the resolution of the former.
Independent Variables (Grids)
- Time (time)
- grid: /T (months since 1960-01-01) ordered (Jan 1856) to (Jan 2023) by 1.0 N= 2005 pts :grid
- Longitude (longitude)
- grid: /X (degree_east) periodic (27.5E) to (22.5E) by 5.0 N= 72 pts :grid
- Latitude (latitude)
- grid: /Y (degree_north) ordered (82.5S) to (82.5N) by 5.0 N= 34 pts :grid
Other Info
- bufferwordsize
- 8
- CE
- null
- CS
- null
- datatype
- doublearraytype
- file_missing_value
- 1.00000002E30
- missing_value
- NaN
- units
- 3282.80635001174 degree_Kelvin radian-2 north
- history
- OS extended by NCEP
References
Kaplan, A., M. Cane, Y. Kushnir, A. Clement, M. Blumenthal, and B. Rajagopalan, Analyses of global sea surface temperature 1856-1991, Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 18,567-18,589, 1998
R. W. Reynolds, T. M. Smith. Improved global sea surface temperature analyses.. J. Climate 7, 1994
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