Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature (ERSST.v3)
ERSST.v3 is the newest version. It will replace ERSST.v2. ERSST.v3 is updated on the third day of each month. Analysis DescriptionThe extended reconstructed sea surface temperature (ERSST) was constructed using the most recently available International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS) SST data and improved statistical methods that allow stable reconstruction using sparse data. This monthly analysis begins January 1854, but because of sparse data the analyzed signal is heavily damped before 1880. Afterwards the strength of the signal is more consistent over time. The ERSST analysis will be updated as new data become available.
Currently, ERSST version 2 (ERSST.v2) and version 3 (ERSST.v3) are available.
ERSST.v3 is an improved extended reconstruction over version 2.
Most of the improvements are justified by testing with simulated data.
The major differences are caused by the improved low-frequency (LF) tuning of
ERSST.v3 which reduces the SST anomaly damping before 1930 using the optimized parameters.
In the ERSST version 3 on this web page we have removed satellite data from ERSST product.
For more information about the differences between ERSST.v3 and ERSST.v2 please read
Summary of Recent Changes in the Land-Ocean Temperature Analyses. Gridded Data
You can make your own plots through the
NCDC
NOMADS Meteorological Data Server LAS server is unavailable temporally. Please check back later! You can now plot and extract the data using the LAS server.
http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/las/servlets/dataset Ascii Time seriers Tables
References
Contact Information
Dick Reynolds
Tom Smith
Chunying Liu
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