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Quality
ATTRIBUTE ACCURACY REPORT: Sea surface temperature is accurate within 0.5 degrees Celsius.
LOGICAL CONSISTENCY REPORT: Quality monitoring consists of imaging the product and visually inspecting the images daily for obvious problems. Record of Significant Events Affecting the SST, Radiation Budget, and Aerosol Products Produced from TIROS-N series AVHRR Data from POD Guide ... at http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/pod-guide/ncdc/docs/podug/html/e/app-e.htm
LINEAGE/PROCESS STEP: PROCESS DESCRIPTION: The 8-km resolution SST observations (SSTOBS) are analyzed and processed to level 3 gridded products. These SST fields are generated by analyzing all the SST observations obtained during the period since the last analysis. SOURCE USED CITATION ABBREVIATION: SSTOBS PROCESS DATE: Not complete SOURCE PRODUCED CITATION ABBREVIATION: gov.noaa.class:SST100
LINEAGE/SOURCE INFORMATION: ORIGINATOR: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD > Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce .
LINEAGE/SOURCE INFORMATION: ORIGINATOR: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD > Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce . TITLE: Sea Surface Temperature Observations (SSTOBS)/SST Retrievals . TITLE: Sea Surface Temperature (100 KM Global) . Unpublished material . PUBLICATION DATE: 1972-12-01. PUBLICATION PLACE: Asheville, NC . PUBLISHER: NOAA/NESDIS > National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Services . ONLINE LINKAGE: http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SST/SST.html . ONLINE LINKAGE: http://www.class.noaa.gov/nsaa/products/search?sub_id=0&datatype_fa... .
LINEAGE/SOURCE INFORMATION: ORIGINATOR: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD > Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce .
LINEAGE/SOURCE INFORMATION: ORIGINATOR: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD > Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce . TITLE: Sea Surface Temperature Observations (SSTOBS)/SST Retrievals . TITLE: Sea Surface Temperature (100 KM Global) . Unpublished material . PUBLICATION DATE: 1972-12-01. PUBLICATION PLACE: Asheville, NC . PUBLISHER: NOAA/NESDIS > National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Services . ONLINE LINKAGE: http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SST/SST.html . ONLINE LINKAGE: http://www.class.noaa.gov/nsaa/products/search?sub_id=0&datatype_fa... . TYPE OF SOURCE MEDIA: digital . SOURCE TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT/BEGINNING TIME: Unknown . SOURCE TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT/BEGINNING TIME: Unknown . SOURCE TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT/ENDING TIME: Present . SOURCE TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT/ENDING TIME: Present . SOURCE CURRENTNESS REFERENCE: ground condition . SOURCE CITATION ABBREVIATION: SSTOBS . SOURCE CONTRIBUTION: Level 2 sea surface temperature observations from which the Level 3 SST gridded products are created. The NESDIS and Navy retrieval archive cartridges contain eight days of 8-km resolution SST observations from a current operational NOAA polar orbiter.
LINEAGE/SOURCE INFORMATION: ORIGINATOR: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD > Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce .
LINEAGE/SOURCE INFORMATION: ORIGINATOR: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD > Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce . TITLE: Sea Surface Temperature Observations (SSTOBS)/SST Retrievals . TITLE: Sea Surface Temperature (100 KM Global) . Unpublished material . PUBLICATION DATE: 1972-12-01. PUBLICATION PLACE: Asheville, NC . PUBLISHER: NOAA/NESDIS > National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Services . ONLINE LINKAGE: http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SST/SST.html . ONLINE LINKAGE: http://www.class.noaa.gov/nsaa/products/search?sub_id=0&datatype_fa... .
LINEAGE/SOURCE INFORMATION: ORIGINATOR: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD > Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce .
LINEAGE/SOURCE INFORMATION: ORIGINATOR: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD > Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce . TITLE: Sea Surface Temperature Observations (SSTOBS)/SST Retrievals . TITLE: Sea Surface Temperature (100 KM Global) . Unpublished material . PUBLICATION DATE: 1972-12-01. PUBLICATION PLACE: Asheville, NC . PUBLISHER: NOAA/NESDIS > National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Services . ONLINE LINKAGE: http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SST/SST.html . ONLINE LINKAGE: http://www.class.noaa.gov/nsaa/products/search?sub_id=0&datatype_fa... . TYPE OF SOURCE MEDIA: digital . SOURCE TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT/BEGINNING TIME: Unknown . SOURCE TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT/BEGINNING TIME: Unknown . SOURCE TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT/ENDING TIME: Present . SOURCE TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT/ENDING TIME: Present . SOURCE CURRENTNESS REFERENCE: ground condition . SOURCE CITATION ABBREVIATION: gov.noaa.class:SST100 . SOURCE CONTRIBUTION: 100-km (1 degree) gridded SST product is generated daily with global coverage and archived at CLASS.
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