What is SST data?

What is SST data?

Sea surface temperature (SST) data sets are an essential resource for monitoring and understanding climate variability and climate change. By surface area, SSTs are the dominant (~71%) input into merged global land-ocean surface temperature data products. Historically, SST measurments have been made from ships.

What is SST in remote sensing?

SST (AMSR-E): Sea Surface Temperature from Remote Sensing Systems.

What is SST on a map?

Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Contour Charts.

What are SST anomalies?

What is an “SST Anomaly”? Sea Surface Temperature anomalies in degrees Celsius, or “SST anomalies” for short, are how much temperatures depart from what is normal for that time of year. This makes sense; we might say that we had a “warm winter” even though it was still much colder than summer.

How does NOAA measure ocean temperature?

Satellite instruments measure sea surface temperature—often abbreviated as SST—by checking how much energy comes off the ocean at different wavelengths. Computer programs merge sea surface temperatures from ships and buoys with the satellite data, and incorporate information from maps of sea ice.

How is SST measured?

To measure SST, scientists deploy temperature sensors on satellites, buoys, ships, ocean reference stations, and through marine telemetry. The NOAA-led U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS®) and NOAA’s Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR) merge their data to provide SSTs worldwide.

How is SST data collected?

What temperature is SST?

Sea surface temperature (SST), or ocean surface temperature, is the water temperature close to the ocean’s surface. The exact meaning of surface varies according to the measurement method used, but it is between 1 millimetre (0.04 in) and 20 metres (70 ft) below the sea surface.

How do we measure SST?

What is ocean temperature?

Generally ocean temperatures range from about -2o to 30o C (28-86o F). The warmest water tends to be surface water in low latitude regions, while the surface water at the poles is obviously much colder (Figure 6.2.

Where is the SST warmest?

Sea surface temperature—the temperature of the water at the ocean surface—is an important physical attribute of the world’s oceans. The surface temperature of the world’s oceans varies mainly with latitude, with the warmest waters generally near the equator and the coldest waters in the Arctic and Antarctic regions.

Where is the warmest sea temperature in the world?

The Indian Ocean has the warmest temperatures of the world’s oceans.

• Ocean water temperature is important to understand, as it affects global climate and marine ecosystems.
• The Indian Ocean is the warmest in the world.
• Ocean surface temperatures have risen by about 1.6°F over the past 100 years, due to global warming.