Observational needs of sea surface temperature

AG O'carroll, EM Armstrong, HM Beggs… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Sea surface temperature (SST) is a fundamental physical variable for understanding,
quantifying and predicting complex interactions between the ocean and the atmosphere …

Diurnal sea surface temperature variation and its impact on the atmosphere and ocean: A review

Y Kawai, A Wada - Journal of oceanography, 2007 - Springer
The importance of the diurnal variability of sea surface temperature (SST) on air-sea
interaction is now being increasingly recognized. This review synthesizes knowledge of the …

Revised estimates of ocean-atmosphere CO2 flux are consistent with ocean carbon inventory

AJ Watson, U Schuster, JD Shutler, T Holding… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The ocean is a sink for~ 25% of the atmospheric CO2 emitted by human activities, an
amount in excess of 2 petagrams of carbon per year (PgC yr− 1). Time-resolved estimates of …

The current configuration of the OSTIA system for operational production of foundation sea surface temperature and ice concentration analyses

S Good, E Fiedler, C Mao, MJ Martin, A Maycock… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
The Operational Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Ice Analysis (OSTIA) system generates
global, daily, gap-filled foundation sea surface temperature (SST) fields from satellite data …

Half a century of satellite remote sensing of sea-surface temperature

PJ Minnett, A Alvera-Azcárate, TM Chin… - Remote Sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Sea-surface temperature (SST) was one of the first ocean variables to be studied from earth
observation satellites. Pioneering images from infrared scanning radiometers revealed the …

The operational sea surface temperature and sea ice analysis (OSTIA) system

CJ Donlon, M Martin, J Stark, J Roberts-Jones… - Remote Sensing of …, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper describes a new Sea surface temperature (SST) analysis that is produced with
global coverage on a daily basis at the Met Office called the Operational SST and Sea Ice …

Daily high-resolution-blended analyses for sea surface temperature

RW Reynolds, TM Smith, C Liu, DB Chelton… - Journal of …, 2007 - journals.ametsoc.org
Two new high-resolution sea surface temperature (SST) analysis products have been
developed using optimum interpolation (OI). The analyses have a spatial grid resolution of …

Climatological mean and decadal change in surface ocean pCO2, and net sea–air CO2 flux over the global oceans

T Takahashi, SC Sutherland, R Wanninkhof… - Deep Sea Research …, 2009 - Elsevier
A climatological mean distribution for the surface water pCO2 over the global oceans in non-
El Niño conditions has been constructed with spatial resolution of 4°(latitude)× 5°(longitude) …

Air-sea fluxes with a focus on heat and momentum

MF Cronin, CL Gentemann, J Edson, I Ueki… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Turbulent and radiative exchanges of heat between the ocean and atmosphere (hereafter
heat fluxes), ocean surface wind stress, and state variables used to estimate them, are …

A multi-sensor approach for the on-orbit validation of ocean color satellite data products

SW Bailey, PJ Werdell - Remote sensing of environment, 2006 - Elsevier
The validation of satellite ocean color data products is a critical component in establishing
their measurement uncertainties, assessing their scientific utility, and identifying conditions …