1 / 9

Sea Surface Temperature Analyses

Sea Surface Temperature Analyses. Richard W. Reynolds. NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center Asheville, NC. Decadal Global In Situ SST Coverage Maximum: 120 months per decade. Extended Reconstruction SST (ERSST). Uses ship and buoy SST data Monthly 2 o gridded fields from 1854 to present

patty
Download Presentation

Sea Surface Temperature Analyses

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Sea Surface TemperatureAnalyses Richard W. Reynolds NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center Asheville, NC

  2. Decadal Global In Situ SST CoverageMaximum: 120 months per decade

  3. Extended Reconstruction SST (ERSST) Uses ship and buoy SST data Monthly 2o gridded fields from 1854 to present Purpose: to monitor climate change

  4. Climate SST Contour Intervals: 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 28

  5. Top: AVHRR Pathfinder Bottom: AMSR-E • For AVHRR: • Absolute latitudes > 40° have roughly only 5 days of data • Number of days increases toward the tropics • Drop offs due to cloud cover • For AMSR: • Absolute latitudes > 40° have more than 20 days of data • Drop offs due to precipitation in ITCZ and SPCZ Jan '03: Number of Days with Nighttime Obs 5

  6. Magnitude of Gradient:Gulf Stream • Daily OI using AMSR-E for January - March 2003 • Gradients have a stationary part due to topography • Thus, limited AVHRR data are useful

  7. AVHRR-only OI AMSR+AVHRR OI Left: Pathfinder AVHRR OI Right: Pathfinder AVHRR + AMSR-E OI Daily OI SST AnomaliesEOT satellite bias correction • 27 August: Katrina • Weak anomaly in Gulf in Path + AMSR-E • 28 August: Katrina • Strong anomaly in Path + AMSR-E • 29 August: Katrina • Strong anomaly in Path + AMSR-E • Modest anomaly in Path 7

  8. Daily OI: ProductsAll products on 0.25° spatial grid • AVHRR only • AVHRR Daily OI: September 1981 to present • AMSR + AVHRR • AMSR + AVHRR Daily OI: June 2002 to present • Both products use satellite & in situ data

  9. The End

More Related