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Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly calculation

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NOAA NCEP EMC CMB GLOBAL Reyn_SmithOIv2 weekly ssta: Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly data

weekly Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly from NOAA NCEP EMC CMB GLOBAL Reyn_SmithOIv2: SST fields updated from version 1 with more COADS data, new sea-ice to SST conversion algorithm, and 1971-2000 climatology.

Independent Variables (Grids)

Time
grid: /T (julian_day) ordered [ (5-11 Nov 1981) (12-18 Nov 1981) (19-25 Nov 1981) ... (23-29 Nov 2008)] N= 1413 pts :grid
Longitude
grid: /X (degree_east) periodic (0.5E) to (0.5W) by 1. N= 360 pts :grid
Latitude
grid: /Y (degree_north) ordered (89.5S) to (89.5N) by 1. N= 180 pts :grid

Other Info

CE
4.1999998
colorscalename
sstacolorscale
CS
-4.1999998
file_missing_value
-999.90002
maxncolor
254
missing_value
NaN
PLOTCOAST
1
scale_max
4.1999998
scale_min
-4.1999998
units
degree_Celsius
standard units*
degree_Kelvin
history
NOAA NCEP EMC CMB GLOBAL Reyn_SmithOIv2 pentad-climatology sst
Averaged over T[Jan, Dec] minimum 0.0% data present
T regridded on NOAA NCEP EMC CMB GLOBAL Reyn_SmithOIv2 pentad-climatology sst
Boxes with less than 0.0% dropped
colorscale

References

Reynolds, R.W., N.A. Rayner, T.M. Smith, D.C. Stokes, and W. Wang, 2002: An Improved In Situ and Satellite SST Analysis for Climate. J. Climate, 15, 1609-1625.

Last updated: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:04:24 GMT
Expires: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT