WMO OSCAR | Details for Variable: Sea surface temperature

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Variable: Sea surface temperature

Definition

Full name	Sea surface temperature
Definition	Temperature of the sea water at surface. The “bulk” temperature refers to the depth of typically 2 m, the “skin” temperature refers to within the upper 1 mm.
Measuring Units	K	Uncertainty Units	K
Horizontal Res Units	km	Vertical Res Units
Stability Units	K (Stability /decade)

Comment:	Detailed SST definitions are available from GHRSST: https://www.ghrsst.org/ghrsst-science/sst-definitions/
Last modified:	2011-06-15
Applied in OSCAR/Space Gap Analysis:	Yes

Classification

Domain: Ocean
- Sub-domain: Ocean
  - Variable: Sea surface temperature
    - Measured in Layers:
      - Sea surface
      - Bulk

Cross-cutting themes:

Used in Application Areas:

Requirements defined for Sea surface temperature (18)

This tables shows all related requirements. For more operations/filtering, please consult the full list of Requirements
Note: In reading the values, goal is marked blue, breakthrough green and threshold orange

Id	Variable	Layer	App Area	Uncertainty	Stability / decade	Hor Res	Ver Res	Obs Cyc	Timeliness	Coverage	Conf Level	Val Date	Source
106	Sea surface temperature	Sea surface	Climate-AOPC (deprecated)	0.25 K 0.4 K 1 K		10 km 50 km 500 km		3 h 6 h 24 h	3 h 6 h 12 h	Global ocean	firm	2007-07-19	AOPC
292	Sea surface temperature	Sea surface	Global NWP	0.3 K 0.5 K 1 K		5 km 15 km 250 km		3 h 24 h 5 d	3 h 24 h 5 d	Global ocean	firm	2009-02-10	John Eyre
370	Sea surface temperature	Sea surface	High Res NWP	0.3 K 0.5 K 1 K		1 km 5 km 20 km		60 min 2 h 6 h	30 min 60 min 6 h	Global ocean	firm	2011-08-04	JF Mahfouf
444	Sea surface temperature	Sea surface	Nowcasting / VSRF	0.5 K 0.8 K 2 K		5 km 10 km 50 km		3 h 6 h 24 h	3 h 6 h 24 h	Global ocean	firm	2013-04-03	P. Ambrosetti
530	Sea surface temperature	Sea surface	Ocean Applications	0.1 K 0.2 K 0.5 K		5 km 10 km 25 km		6 h 24 h 3 d	60 min 2 h 3 h	Global ocean	firm	2011-03-07	JCOMM (Ali Mafimbo)
531	Sea surface temperature	Sea surface	Ocean Applications	0.1 K 0.5 K 1 K		0.5 km 1 km 10 km	0.5	30 min 60 min 3 h	30 min 60 min 6 h	Global ocean	firm	2011-03-07	JCOMM (Ali Mafimbo)
532	Sea surface temperature	Sea surface	Ocean Applications	0.1 K 0.2 K 0.5 K		1 km 5 km 10 km		3 h 12 h 24 h	60 min 2 h 3 h	Global ocean	firm	2011-03-07	JCOMM (Ali Mafimbo)
572	Sea surface temperature	Sea surface	SIAF (deprecated)	0.1 K 0.2 K 0.5 K		50 km 85.5 km 250 km		3 h 6 h 12 h	3 h 6 h 24 h	Global ocean	firm	2009-01-19	Laura Ferranti
737	Sea surface temperature	Sea surface	Aeronautical Meteorology	1 K 2 K 5 K		5 km 11 km 50 km		60 min 60 min 2 y	1 y 1 y 2 y	Global	firm	2014-03-27	J van der Meulen
757	Sea surface temperature		SSLP	0.1 K 0.2 K 0.5 K		50 km 85.5 km 250 km		3 h 6 h 12 h	3 h 6 h 24 h	Global ocean	firm	2009-01-19	Laura Ferranti
6	Sea surface temperature	Sea surface	CLIC (deprecated)	0.5 K 0.8 K 2 K		25 km 39.7 km 100 km		24 h 30 h 2 d	30 d 38 d 60 d	Global ocean	reasonable	1998-10-29	WCRP
201	Sea surface temperature	Sea surface	CLIVAR (deprecated)	0.1 K 0.2 K 0.3 K		10 km 20 km 50 km		3 h 4 h 6 h	24 h 36 h 3 d	Global ocean	reasonable	1998-10-29	WCRP
231	Sea surface temperature	Sea surface	Climate Modelling Research (deprecated)	0.5 K 1 K 2 K		50 km 100 km 250 km		60 min 3 h 12 h	30 d 45 d 60 d	Global ocean	reasonable	1998-10-29	WCRP
527	Sea surface temperature	Sea surface	Ocean Applications	0.1 K 0.5 K 1 K		10 km 25 km 100 km		60 min 3 h 24 h	5 min 60 min 6 h	Global ocean	reasonable	2011-03-07	JCOMM (Ali Mafimbo)
528	Sea surface temperature	Sea surface	Ocean Applications	0.1 K 0.5 K 1 K		1 km 10 km 25 km	0.5	60 min 3 h 24 h	5 min 60 min 6 h	Global ocean	reasonable	2011-03-07	JCOMM (Ali Mafimbo)
529	Sea surface temperature	Sea surface	Ocean Applications	0.1 K 0.2 K 0.5 K		10 km 50 km 100 km		60 min 3 h 24 h	12 h 24 h 3 d	Global ocean	reasonable	2011-03-07	JCOMM (Ali Mafimbo)
560	Sea surface temperature	Sea surface	Climate-OOPC (deprecated)	0.1 K 0.126 K 0.2 K		1 km 8 km 500 km		60 min 3 h 24 h	3 h 5 h 12 h	Global ocean	reasonable	2007-07-19	OOPC
835	Sea surface temperature	Sea surface	Climate Monitoring (GCOS)	0.1 K	0.03 K	1 km 100 km		60 min 7 d		Global	reasonable	2019-10-15	GCOS-200: The Global Observing System for Climate: Implementation Needs (Published 2016)