2019
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00420
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Observational Needs of Sea Surface Temperature

Abstract: Sea surface temperature (SST) is a fundamental physical variable for understanding, quantifying and predicting complex interactions between the ocean and the atmosphere. Such processes determine how heat from the sun is redistributed across the global oceans, directly impacting large-and small-scale weather and climate patterns. The provision of daily maps of global SST for operational systems, climate modeling and the broader scientific community is now a mature and sustained service coordinated by the Group … Show more

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“…This scope presently excludes the consideration of records derived from satellite data only as these have a maximum record length of about 40 years and are the subject of other papers in this issue (e.g., Ardhuin et al, 2019;Bourassa et al, 2019;O'Carroll et al, 2019). We note that many of the themes contained in this paper are relevant to both in situ and satellite data.…”
Section: Scope and Terminologymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This scope presently excludes the consideration of records derived from satellite data only as these have a maximum record length of about 40 years and are the subject of other papers in this issue (e.g., Ardhuin et al, 2019;Bourassa et al, 2019;O'Carroll et al, 2019). We note that many of the themes contained in this paper are relevant to both in situ and satellite data.…”
Section: Scope and Terminologymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Space-based climate monitoring requirements involve sustained satellite measurements of sea surface temperature (SST) (O'Carroll et al, 2019), surface wind and wind stress (Cronin et al, 2019), sea surface height (SSH) from which surface geostrophic currents can be derived and gravity changes (mass changes in the climate system), surface fluxes of heat (Cronin et al, 2019) and freshwater including rainfall, sea surface salinity (SSS), surface waves (Villas Boas et al, 2019) and ocean color. They should be sampled at least twice daily, ideally four times a day, and at a spatial scale that resolves accurately the ocean mesoscale [O(1) km].…”
Section: General Considerations Concerning the Global Ocean Domainmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Sea surface temperature (SST) is one of the main physical variables that provides information regarding the current state of the ocean [1]. SST data have been used for data assimilation in ocean circulation models and as a bottom boundary condition for atmospheric prediction models [2][3][4].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%