Climate Indicators - 2009
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Sea-surface Temperature
Sea-surface Temperature
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- COBE

Sea-surface temperature anomalies relative to 1961-1990: COBE (Ishii et al. 2005, green), Ishii, M., A. Shouji, S. Sugimoto, T. Matsumoto 2005: Objective analysis of SST and marine meteorological variables for the 20th Century using ICOADS and the Kobe Collection. Int. J. Climatol., 25, 865879. http://ghrsst.nodc.noaa.gov/intercomp.html
- ERSST3

Sea-surface temperature anomalies relative to 1961-1990: ERSST3 (Smith et al. 2008, grey), Smith, T.M., R.W. Reynolds, Thomas C. Peterson, and Jay Lawrimore 2008: Improvements to NOAA's Historical Merged Land-Ocean Surface Temperature Analysis (1880-2006). Journal of Climate, 21, 2283-2293. http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.noaa.ersst.html http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/anomalies/index.html NOAA_ERSST_V3 data provided by the NOAA/OAR/ESRL PSD, Boulder, Colorado, USA, from their Web site at http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/ data from: http://ghrsst.nodc.noaa.gov/intercomp.html
- HadSST2

Sea-surface temperature anomalies relative to 1961-1990: HadSST2 (Rayner et al. 2006, orange), Rayner, N.A., P.Brohan, D.E.Parker, C.K.Folland, J.J.Kennedy, M.Vanicek, T.Ansell and S.F.B.Tett 2006: Improved analyses of changes and uncertainties in sea surface temperature measured in situ since the mid-nineteenth century: the HadSST2 data set. Journal of Climate. 19(3) pp. 446-469. http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadsst2/diagnostics/global/nh+sh/annual
- ICOADS

Sea-surface temperature anomalies relative to 1961-1990: ICOADS 2.4 (Worley et al. 2005, red), Worley, S.J., S.D. Woodruff, R.W. Reynolds, S.J. Lubker, and N. Lott, 2005: ICOADS Release 2.1 data and products. Int. J. Climatol. (CLIMAR-II Special Issue), 25, 823-842 (DOI: 10.1002/joc.1166). http://ghrsst.nodc.noaa.gov/intercomp.html This series is not shown before 1942 because it is not corrected for known biases that affect sea surface temperature observations prior to that date.
- Kaplan

Sea-surface temperature anomalies relative to 1961-1990: Kaplan et al. (1998, blue), 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. http://ghrsst.nodc.noaa.gov/intercomp.html
- SOC

Sea-surface temperature anomalies relative to 1961-1990: Berry and Kent (2009, yellow, original climatology period is different so adjusted to average anomaly for HadSST2 over common period 1970-2009). Berry, D.I. and E.C. Kent, 2009: A New Air-Sea Interaction Gridded Dataset from ICOADS with Uncertainty Estimates. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 90(5), 645-656 (DOI: 10.1175/2008BAMS2639.1). from Dave Berry, National Oceanography Centre (UK)
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