satellite/4km/climatology/EMIS_T_SST_MM
eng
File Identifier of the parent series
series
Environmental Marine Information System, Directorate D - Sustainable Resources, Joint Research
Centre
JRC-EMIS@ec.europa.eu
pointOfContact
2013-10-16
ISO19115
2003/Cor.1:2006
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4936
EMIS - MODIS-TERRA Monthly climatology sea surface temperature (4km) in degree-C
2013-08-22
creation
2013-06-11T11:15:00
revision
2013-08-29
publication
satellite/4km/climatology/EMIS_T_SST_MM
https://jeodpp.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ftp/public/JRC-OpenData/
Monthly climatology sea surface temperature (in degree-C at 4km resolution) derived from the MODIS-TERRA sensor (Satellite remote sensing Ocean color data): Sea surface temperature is the temperature of the water close to the sea surface.
SST is a standard product from satellite-based thermal infra-red sensors, and optical sensors complemented with infrared bands.
Environmental Marine Information System, Directorate D - Sustainable Resources, Joint Research
Centre
JRC-EMIS@ec.europa.eu
pointOfContact
Melin, Frederic
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)
frederic.melin@ec.europa.eu
author
sea surface temperature climatology
ocean color
satellite observations
marine environment
coastal environment
sea water protection
marine monitoring
GIS digital format
climate change
Environmental monitoring facilities
Oceanographic geographical features
Protected sites
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
2008-06-01
publication
environmental data
GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4
2010-01-13
publication
HYDROSPHERE (freshwater, marine water, waters)
GEMET - Groups, version 2.4
2010-01-13
publication
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, ANTHROPIC ENVIRONMENT
GEMET - Supergroups, version 2.4
2010-01-13
publication
water
GEMET - Themes, version 2.4
2010-01-13
publication
OCEANS
GEOSS - Earth Observation Vocabulary, version 1.0
2011-05-01
publication
no conditions apply
otherRestrictions
no limitations
4
eng
oceans
environment
-30.0
42.0
10.0
70.0
2000-02-01
2017-05-31
https://jeodpp.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ftp/public/JRC-OpenData/
Environmental Marine Information System
WWW:LINK
emis.jrc.ec.europa.eu: The Environmental Marine Information System (EMIS) provides information on marine ecosystems and coastal state, using biological and physical variables generated by satellite remote sensing. EMIS allows visualisation and download of Remote Sensing Ocean color data and derived products hosted at the Directorate D - Sustainable Resources.
information
https://jeodpp.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ftp/public/JRC-OpenData/EMIS/satellite/4km/climatology/
EMIS - Download access (EMIS_T_SST)
WWW:DOWNLOAD
Direct NetCDF download
download
series
COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
2010-12-08
publication
See the referenced specification
false
General information: Monthly climatology sea surface temperature (SST) in deg. Celsius (degree-C) derived from MODIS-Terra sensor (http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Processing information: Sea surface temperature (SST) is derived from MODIS-Terra multi-band measurements using the NASA software package SeaDAS 6.4 and a nonlinear SST (NLSST) algorithm originally described in Walton et al. 1998, using the brightness temperature at wavebands between 10 and 12 µm.
Temporal characteristics: The product consists of standard monthly mean sea surface temperature derived from night-time products (NSST) at 4km resolution. Data time series started in February 2000 and is regularly updated most recent years.
Description of observation methods/instruments: MODIS-Terra sensor passively collects radiations emitted from the sea surface at a number of wavebands ranging from 0.4 to 14.4 µm, i.e. from the visible to thermal infrared. The strength of infrared radiations emitted by the ocean surface is a function of the temperature, i.e. the higher the temperature, the greater the radiant energy from the sea surface. SST is thus retrieved after correcting the water-surface emitted signal from the contribution due to the atmosphere. The processing includes a cloud screening procedure to avoid cloud temperature contaminated pixels.
Quality/accuracy/calibration information: The satellite-derived SST product represents the 'skin temperature', that is the temperature of the top millimeters of the ocean surface. Comparisons with field measurements of bulk and skin temperature resulted in an absolute uncertainty of <0.2K.
References: CC Walton et al. 1998. The development and operational application of non-linear algorithms for the measurements of sea surface temperatures with the NOAA polar-orbiting environmental satellites. J. Geophys. Res. 103 (C12): 27999-28012.