DATA
Smith and Reynolds NCDC Level 4 Historical Reconstructed SST Monthly Version 2
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DOI
10.5067/REYN2-ERMON
Short Name
REYNOLDS_NCDC_L4_SST_HIST_RECON_MONTHLY_V2
Description
The Smith & Reynolds Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature (ERSST) Level 4 dataset provides a historical reconstruction of monthly global ocean surface temperatures and temperature anomalies on a 2 degree spatial grid from 1854-2009 from in-situ observations based on a consistent statistical methodology that accounts for uneven sampling distributions over time and related observational biases. Version 2 of this dataset implements release 2 of ICOADS (International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set) and utilizes Empirical Orthogonal Teleconnections (EOT) in reconstruction analyses to estimate both surface temperature and associated standard deviation error fields. ERSST v2 presents extended reconstructed sea surface temperature and associated estimated SST error standard deviation fields as 2 similarly structured ASCII flat files.
Version
2
Measurement
Oceans
› Ocean Temperature
› Sea Surface Temperature Reconstruction
Processing Level
4
Coverage
Global
Northernmost Latitude
90.0
Southernmost Latitude
-90.0
Westernmost Longitude
-180.0
Easternmost Longitude
180.0
Time Span(s)
January 1, 1854 to
Present
Resolution
Temporal Resolution
1 Month
Spatial Resolution
2.0 degrees (Latitude) x 2.0 degrees (Longitude)
Projection
-
Platform/Sensor
ICOADS/InSitu, NCEP GTS/InSitu
Project
Reynolds SST
(REYNOLDS_SST)
Data Provider
PO.DAAC
