Abstract:
This database consists of satellite measurements of the weekly average
surface temperature for the Northwest Atlantic Ocean (from +35?S to +67?N and
-77?W to -35?E). The data were obtained from the Physical Oceanography Archive
Centre of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
The JPL product consists of weekly global 18 kilometre gridded
multichannel sea-surface temperature (MCSST) data
... derived from the daytime NOAA
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR). The JPL data are available as
a global set (2048x1024 pixels) and cover the period from November 1981 to
February 2001. The series has since been terminated as JPL no longer provides
the product. A new data source is being sought.
The data and a document describing the JPL MCSST sea-surface
temperature dataset can be downloaded from a JPL ftp site
http://podaac-www.jpl.nasa.gov .
The purpose of the database is to obtain information on the long-term
variability of sea surface temperature on the Canadian east coast continental
shelf.
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