DATA
GHRSST Level 4 MW_IR_OI Global Foundation Sea Surface Temperature analysis version 5.0 from REMSS
Please contact us if there are any discrepancies or inaccuracies found below.
DOI
10.5067/GHMWI-4FR05
Short Name
MW_IR_OI-REMSS-L4-GLOB-v5.0
Description
A Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) global Level 4 sea surface temperature analysis produced daily on a 0.09-degree grid at Remote Sensing Systems. This product uses optimal interpolation (OI) from both microwave (MW) sensors including the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Microwave Imager (GMI), the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Microwave Imager (TMI), the NASA Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-EOS (AMSRE), the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) onboard the GCOM-W1 satellite, and WindSat operates on the Coriolis satellite, and infrared (IR) sensors such as the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the NASA Aqua and Terra platform and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on board the Suomi-NPP satellite. The through-cloud capabilities of microwave radiometers provide a valuable picture of global sea surface temperature (SST) while infrared radiometers (i.e., MODIS) have a higher spatial resolution. This analysis does not use any in situ SST data such as drifting buoy SST. Comparing with previous version 4.0 dataset, the version 5.0 has made the updates in several areas, including the diurnal warming model, the sensor-specific error statistics (SSES) for each microwave sensor, the sensor correlation model, and the quality mask.
Version
5.0
Measurement
OCEANS
› OCEAN TEMPERATURE
› SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE
› Foundation Sea Surface Temperature (SSTfnd)
Processing Level
4
Coverage
Global
Northernmost Latitude
90.0
Southernmost Latitude
-90.0
Westernmost Longitude
-179.0
Easternmost Longitude
180.0
Time Span(s)
June 1, 2002 to
Present
Resolution
Temporal Resolution
1 Day
Spatial Resolution
0.09 degrees (Latitude) x 0.09 degrees (Longitude)
Projection
-
Platform/Sensor
Aqua/AMSR-E, Aqua/MODIS, Terra/MODIS, TRMM/TMI, CORIOLIS/WINDSAT, SUOMI-NPP/VIIRS, GCOM-W1/AMSR2, GPM/GMI
Project
Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature
(GHRSST)
Data Provider
PO.DAAC