Entry_ID: (required) Entry_Title: Modern Average Global Sea-Surface Temperature Group: Data_Set_Citation Originator(s): Schweitzer, Peter N. Title: Modern Average Global Sea-Surface Temperature Publication: U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series Publication_Date: 1993 Publication_Place: Reston, Virginia Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Edition: 2.0 Data_Presentation_Form: remote-sensing image URL: http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds10/ URL: http://geo-nsdi.er.usgs.gov/metadata/digital-data/10/sst.kit (Tcl/Tk starkit, platform independent, requires tclkit to run, get that at http://www.equi4.com/tclkit/download.html ) URL: http://geo-nsdi.er.usgs.gov/metadata/digital-data/10/sst.exe (Microsoft Windows) URL: http://geo-nsdi.er.usgs.gov/metadata/digital-data/10/sst.bin (Linux x86) URL: http://geo-nsdi.er.usgs.gov/metadata/digital-data/10/sst-viewer.dmg.gz (Mac OSX) URL: http://geo-nsdi.er.usgs.gov/metadata/digital-data/10/dds10.zip (Source code) End_Group Keyword: Oceanography Keyword: Sea Surface Temperature Keyword: Present Group: Temporal_Coverage Start_date: 19811001 Stop_date: 19901231 End_Group Data_Set_Progress: Complete Group: Spatial_Coverage Southernmost_Latitude: -66.0 Northernmost_Latitude: 72.0 Westernmost_Longitude: -180.0 Easternmost_Longitude: 180.0 End_Group Location: North Atlantic Ocean Location: South Atlantic Ocean Location: Indian Ocean Location: Pacific Ocean Location: Mediterranean Sea Group: Data_Resolution Latitude_Resolution: 0.01757812 Longitude_Resolution: 0.01757812 End_Group Access_Constraints: none Use_Constraints: none Originating_Center: (required) Group: Data_Center Data_Center_Name: (required) Dataset_ID: U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series DDS-10 Group: Data_Center_Contact Last_name: Schweitzer First_name: Peter Middle_name: N. Email: pschweitzer@usgs.gov Phone: (703) 648-6533 Group: Address Mail Stop 954 National Center U.S. Geological Survey 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive Reston, VA 20192 USA End_Group End_Group End_Group Storage_Medium: Originally compiled under a Data General UNIX system, these data are now maintained under Linux, and the software written using Tcl/Tk and C, usable under Linux, UNIX, and Microsoft Windows. A Mac OSX port is possible but has not been done. Group: Distribution Distribution_Media: online Distribution_Format : starkit Distribution_Size: 7.5 megabytes Fees: none End_Group Group: Distribution Distribution_Media: online Distribution_Format : GIF Distribution_Size: 7 megabytes Fees: none End_Group Group: Distribution Distribution_Media: online Distribution_Format : EXE Distribution_Size: 7.5 megabytes Fees: none End_Group Group: Distribution Distribution_Media: online Distribution_Format : ELF Distribution_Size: 7.5 megabytes Fees: none End_Group Group: Distribution Distribution_Media: online Distribution_Format : Disk image Distribution_Size: 7.5 megabytes Fees: none End_Group Group: Multimedia_Sample URL: http://geo-nsdi.er.usgs.gov/metadata/digital-data/10/legend.gif Format: GIF Caption: Graphical legend relating colors on the images to sea-surface temperature End_Group Group: Multimedia_Sample URL: http://geo-nsdi.er.usgs.gov/metadata/digital-data/10/m_augna.gif Format: GIF Caption: August sea-surface temperature in the Western North Atlantic Ocean. End_Group Group: Multimedia_Sample URL: http://geo-nsdi.er.usgs.gov/metadata/digital-data/10/m_augnae.gif Format: GIF Caption: August sea-surface temperature in the Eastern North Atlantic Ocean. End_Group Group: Multimedia_Sample URL: http://geo-nsdi.er.usgs.gov/metadata/digital-data/10/m_augsa.gif Format: GIF Caption: August sea-surface temperature in the South Atlantic Ocean. End_Group Group: Multimedia_Sample URL: http://geo-nsdi.er.usgs.gov/metadata/digital-data/10/m_augag.gif Format: GIF Group: Description August sea-surface temperature in the Southeastern Atlantic and Southwestern Indian Oceans. End_Group End_Group Group: Multimedia_Sample URL: http://geo-nsdi.er.usgs.gov/metadata/digital-data/10/m_augio.gif Format: GIF Caption: August sea-surface temperature in the Indian Ocean. End_Group Group: Multimedia_Sample URL: http://geo-nsdi.er.usgs.gov/metadata/digital-data/10/m_augnep.gif Format: GIF Caption: August sea-surface temperature in the Northeast Pacific Ocean. End_Group Group: Multimedia_Sample URL: http://geo-nsdi.er.usgs.gov/metadata/digital-data/10/m_augnwp.gif Format: GIF Caption: August sea-surface temperature in the Northwest Pacific Ocean. End_Group Group: Multimedia_Sample URL: http://geo-nsdi.er.usgs.gov/metadata/digital-data/10/m_augsep.gif Format: GIF Caption: August sea-surface temperature in the Southeast Pacific Ocean. End_Group Group: Multimedia_Sample URL: http://geo-nsdi.er.usgs.gov/metadata/digital-data/10/m_augswp.gif Format: GIF Caption: August sea-surface temperature in the Southwest Pacific Ocean. End_Group Group: Reference Citation_Information: Originator: U.S. Geological Survey Originator: Peter N. Schweitzer (comp.) Publication_Date: 1995 Title: Monthly Average Polar Sea-Ice Concentration Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: remote-sensing image Series_Information: Series_Name: U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series Issue_Identification: DDS-27 Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds27/ End_Group Group: Summary The purpose of this data set is to provide paleoclimate researchers with a tool for estimating the average seasonal variation in sea-surface temperature (SST) throughout the modern world ocean and for estimating the modern monthly and weekly sea-surface temperature at any given oceanic location. It is expected that these data will be compared with temperature estimates derived from geological proxy measures such as faunal census analyses and stable isotopic analyses. The results can then be used to constrain general circulation models of climate change. The data contained in this data set are derived from the NOAA Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer Multichannel Sea Surface Temperature data (AVHRR MCSST), which are obtainable from the Distributed Active Archive Center at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. The JPL tapes contain weekly images of SST from October 1981 through December 1990 in nine regions of the world ocean: North Atlantic, Eastern North Atlantic, South Atlantic, Agulhas, Indian, Southeast Pacific, Southwest Pacific, Northeast Pacific, and Northwest Pacific. This data set represents the results of calculations carried out on the NOAA data and also contains the source code of the programs that made the calculations. The objective was to derive the average sea-surface temperature of each month and week throughout the whole 10-year series, meaning, for example, that data from January of each year would be averaged together. The result is 12 monthly and 52 weekly images for each of the oceanic regions. Averaging the images in this way tends to reduce the number of grid cells that lack valid data and to suppress interannual variability. As ancillary data, the ETOPO5 global gridded elevation and bathymetry data (Edwards, 1989) were interpolated to the resolution of the SST data; the interpolated topographic data are included. End_Group Group: Related_URL URL_Type: URL: http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds27/ Group: Description Originator: U.S. Geological Survey Originator: Peter N. Schweitzer (comp.) Publication_Date: 1995 Title: Monthly Average Polar Sea-Ice Concentration Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: remote-sensing image Series_Information: Series_Name: U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series Issue_Identification: DDS-27 Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds27/ End_Group End_Group Group: DIF_Author Last_name: Schweitzer First_name: Peter Middle_name: N. Email: pschweitzer@usgs.gov Phone: (703) 648-6533 Group: Address Mail Stop 954 National Center U.S. Geological Survey 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive Reston, VA 20192 USA End_Group End_Group DIF_Revision_Date: 20051121 Science_Review_Date: