Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Files

 

These files are taken from Reynolds' [29] blended SST data files. Each month's data is in an individual file. These files also follow the format convention described in Section .

The SST datasets are found in the directory whose path and name are given by the execution shell script variable SSTdir. In this release, the default location of these files is SST_Reynolds_oi.

Climatological SST have filenames of the form:

0000mmdd.sst

Real-time SST have filenames of the form:

yyyymmdd.sst

In both cases, ``mm'' is month (e.g. 02, 10), ``dd'' is day, and ``yyyy'' is year (e.g. 0000, 1991). For all SST files, we assume the month's data is centered on the 15th, so ``dd'' equals ``15''. For the real-time SST, the supplied data range from November 1981 to December 1998. Monthly data are linearly interpolated to daily averages in rdsst.f.