SST anomaly\0~ from KAPLAN EXTENDED v2: 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\0 àÝX .
Independent Variables (Grids)
- Longitude
- grid: /X (degree_east) periodic (25E) to (20E) by 5.0 N= 72 pts :grid
Other Info
- CE
- null
- CS
- null
- datatype
- realarraytype
- file_missing_value
- 1.00000002E30
- missing_value
- NaN
- units
- degree_Celsius
- standard units*
- degree_Kelvin
- history
- $partialdiff sub X$ root mean sq $integral dY$ [ KAPLAN EXTENDED v2 ssta ]
- OS extended by NCEP\0$G
Averaged over Y[90S, 90N] T[Jan 1856, Jul 2014] 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
Last updated: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 08:02:46 GMT