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Description

A Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) Level 4 sea surface temperature analysis, produced daily on an operational basis at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) using optimal interpolation (OI) on a regional 1/12 degree grid over the Australian region (20N - 70S, 60E - 170W). This Regional Australian Multi-Sensor SST Analysis (RAMSSA) v1.0 system blends satellite SST observations from passive infrared and passive microwave radiometers, with in situ data from ships, Argo floats, XBTs, CTDs, drifting buoys and moorings from the Global Telecommunications System (GTS). SST observations that have experienced recent surface wind speeds less than 6 m/s during the day or less than 2 m/s during night are rejected from the analysis. The processing results in daily foundation SST estimates that are largely free of nocturnal cooling and diurnal warming effects. Sea ice concentrations are supplied by the NOAA/NCEP 12.7 km sea ice analysis. In the absence of observations, the analysis relaxes to the BoM Global Weekly 1 degree OI SST analysis, which relaxes to the Reynolds and Smith (1994) Monthly 1 degree SST climatology for 1961 - 1990.

Product Summary

Platforms
BUOYS ,
Suomi-NPP ,
NOAA-20 ,
GCOM-W1 ,
METOP-A ,
METOP-B ,
NCEP GTS ,
Ships
Instruments
DRIFTING BUOYS ,
CTD ,
XBT ,
VIIRS ,
AMSR2 ,
AVHRR-3 ,
TEMPERATURE PROBES
Spatial Extent

N: 20 S: -70 E: 180 W: 60

,

N: 20 S: -70 E: 180 W: 60

Spatial Resolution
0.083 Decimal Degrees x 0.083 Decimal Degrees
Location
OCEANIA
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2006-06-12 to Present
Data Partner
Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA (NASA/JPL/PODAAC) ,
Bureau of Meteorology, Australia (AU/BOM)
Concept ID
C2036878103-POCLOUD
Data State
ACTIVE
Number of Files/Granules
7230
Processing Level
4
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Sea Surface Temperature

Citation

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Copy Citation

Australian Bureau of Meteorology (ABOM). (2019). GHRSST Level 4 RAMSSA_9km Australian Regional Foundation Sea Surface Temperature Analysis v1.0 dataset (GDS2) [Data set]. NASA Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/GHRAM-4FA1A Date Accessed: 2026-04-10

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Variables

The table below lists the variables contained within a single granule for this dataset. Variables often contain observed or derived geophysical measurements collected from a variety of sources, including remote sensing instruments on satellite and airborne platforms, field campaigns, in situ measurements, and model outputs. The terms variable, parameter, scientific data set, layer, and band have been used across NASA’s Earth science disciplines; however, variable is the designated nomenclature in NASA’s Common Metadata Repository (CMR). Variable metadata attributes such as Name, Description, Units, Data Type, Fill Value, Valid Range, and Scale Factor allow users to efficiently process and analyze the data. The full range of attributes may not be applicable to all variables. Additional information on variable attributes is typically available in the data, user guide, and/or other product documentation.

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Name Description Units Data Type Fill Value Valid Range Scale Factor Offset
analysed_sst Optimally interpolated analysis of SST observations. kelvin short -32768 -300 to 4500 0.01 273.15
analysis_error Calculated as analysis field error in OI analysis system and a function of the age and estimated standard deviation of all observations used to form analysed_sst value. See Beggs et al (2011) in http://www.bom.gov.au/jshess/papers.php?year=2011. kelvin short -32768 0 to 32765 0.01 N/A
crs coordinate reference system N/A int N/A N/A 1 N/A
lat Latitudes for locating data degrees_north float 9.96921E+36 -90 to 90 1 N/A
lon Longitudes for locating data degrees_east float 9.96921E+36 -180 to 180 1 N/A
mask b0: 1 = grid cell is open sea water, b1: 1 = land is present in this grid cell, b2: 1 = lake surface is present in this grid cell, b3: 1 = sea ice is present in this grid cell, b4-b7: reserved for future grid mask data N/A byte -128 1 to 8 1 N/A
sea_ice_fraction Fractional sea ice cover from NCEP-ICE product (Grumbine, 1996) . 1 byte -128 0 to 100 0.01 N/A
time Nominal time because observations are from different sources and are made at different times of the day seconds since 1981-01-01 00:00:00 int -2147483647 N/A 1 N/A
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