ssta ssta ssta SST anomaly from KAPLAN EXTENDED v1: 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
- grid: /T (months since 1960-01-01) ordered (Jan 1856) to (Mar 2003) by 1.0 N= 1767 pts :grid
Other Info
- bufferwordsize
- 8
- CE
- null
- CS
- null
- datatype
- doublearraytype
- file_missing_value
- 1.00000002E30
- missing_value
- NaN
- units
- degree_Celsius
- standard units*
- degree_Kelvin
- history
- KAPLAN EXTENDED v1 ssta
OS extended by NCEP
- KAPLAN EXTENDED v1 ssta climatology
- OS extended by NCEP
Averaged over T2[1856, 2002] minimum 0.0% data present
root mean sq [ KAPLAN EXTENDED v1 ssta anomalies ]- Averaged over X[27.5E, 27.5E] Y[90S, 90N] minimum 0.0% data present
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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