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Microwave Optimally Interpolated (OI) Sea Surface Temperature (SST)

Product:

Daily Minimum SST (~8 AM local time)

Resolution:

Quarter Degree (~25 kilometer) Gridded (1440 x 720)

Derived from:

Microwave Radiometer SSTs (AMSR-E, TMI)

Time Coverage:  

Mid/Trop (40N to 40S):   

1998-Jan through present

Global (90N to 90S):

2002-Jun through present

Updated:

Several times daily in Near Real Time (NRT)

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Microwave (MW) + InfraRed (IR) OI Sea Surface Temperature (SST)

Product:

Foundation SST (~12 UTC)

Resolution:

~.09 Degree (~9 kilometer) Gridded (4096 x 2048)

Derived from:

MW SSTs (AMSR-E, TMI) and IR (MODIS) SSTs

Time Coverage:  

Global (90N to 90S):   

2006-Apr-10 through ~NRT

Comments:

IR allows higher spatial resolution, and SST near land.
However, IR input is less accurate than MW due to cloud contamination. Blending MW and IR enables greater coverage and higher accuracy than IR only SSTs, but current OI does not completely eliminate cloud contamination inherent to IR SSTs.
For climatological accuracy, consider MW OI SSTs.

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Daily (TMI + AMSR-E)

Daily (TMI only)

Daily (AMSR-E only)

Daily (MW + IR)

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Download Data:

via ftp: 

ftp.discover-earth.org/sst

Data file format is detailed in the MW OI SST Description.

Read routines are available at ftp.discover-earth.org/sst/daily/read_routines.

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