Evaluation of in situ sea surface temperatures for use in the calibration and validation of satellite retrievals

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Xu, Feng ^a,b   Ignatov, Alexander ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; DATA PROCESSING; ERRORS; QUALITY CONTROL; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

CROSS-PLATFORM; DATA SETS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL OCEAN; GLOBAL TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; IN-SITU; IN-SITU DATA; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; NONUNIFORM; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE; REYNOLDS; RMS ERRORS; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERRORS; SATELLITE RETRIEVAL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SST ANOMALIES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THREE-WAY ANALYSIS;

SHIPS;

CALIBRATION; DATA SET; DRIFTER; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL OCEAN; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MOORING SYSTEM; QUALITY CONTROL; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL APPLICATION;

EID: 77957608306     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006129     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Baker, N. L. (1994), Quality control of meteorological observations at Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center, Nav. Res. Lab., Monterey, Calif., Dec.
2. Bourles, B., et al (2008), The PIRATA program: History, accomplishments, and future directions, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 89, 1111-1125.
3. Casey, K., and P. Cornillon (1999), A comparison of satellite and in situ- based sea surface temperature climatologies, J. Clim., 12(6), 1848-1863.
4. Donlon, C., et al (2007), The Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment High-resolution Sea Surface Temperature Pilot Project, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 88(8), 1197-1213.
5. Elipot, S., and R. Lumpkin (2008), Spectral description of oceanic near-surface variability, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L05606, doi:10.1029/ 2007GL032874. (Pubitemid 351676016)
6. Emery, W. J., D. J. Baldwin, P. Schlussel, and R. W. Reynolds (2001), Accuracy of in situ sea surface temperatures used to calibrate infrared satellite measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 106(C2), 2387-2405.
7. Ingleby, B., and M. Huddleston (2007), Quality control of ocean temperature and salinity profiles - Historical and real-time data, J. Mar. Syst., 65, 158-175.
8. Kent, E. C., and P. G. Challenor (2006), Toward estimating climatic trends in SST. Part II: Random errors, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 23(3), 476-486.
9. Kent, E. C., and P. K. Taylor (2006), Toward estimating climatic trends in SST. Part I: Methods of measurement, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 23(3), 464-475.
10. Kent, E. C., P. K. Taylor, B. S. Truscott, and J. S. Hopkins (1993), The accuracy of voluntary observing ship's meteorological observations: Results of the VSOP-NA, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 10, 591-608.
11. Kent, E. C., P. G. Challenor, and P. K. Taylor (1999), A statistical determination of the random observational errors present in voluntary observing ships meteorological reports, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 16(7), 905-914.
12. Kent, E. C., D. I. Berry, S. D. Woodruff, and P. K. Taylor (2006), Voluntary observing ships: A vital observing system in decline, CLIVAR Exchanges, No. 38, 11(3), 20-21.
13. Kent, E. C., S. D. Woodruff, and D. I. Berry (2007), WMO publication no. 47 metadata and an assessment of voluntary observing ships observation heights in ICOADS, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 24(4), 214-234.
14. Kilpatrick, K. A., G. P. Podesta, and R. Evans (2001), Overview of the NOAA/NASA advanced very high resolution radiometer Pathfinder algorithm for sea surface temperature and associated matchup database, J. Geophys. Res., 106(C5), 9179-9197.
15. Lorenc, A. C., and O. Hammon (1988), Objective quality control of observations using Bayesian methods. Theory, and a practical implementation, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 114, 515-543.
16. McClain, E. P., W. G. Pichel, and C. C. Walton (1985), Comparative performance of AVHRR-based multichannel sea surface temperatures, J. Geophys. Res., 90(C6), 11,587-11,601.
17. McPhaden, M., et al (1998), The Tropical Ocean-Global Atmosphere observing system: A decade of progress, J. Geophys. Res., 103(C7), 14,169-14,240.
18. McPhaden, M. J., et al (2009), RAMA: The Research Moored Array for African-Asian-Australian Monsoon Analysis and Prediction, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 90(4), 459-479.
19. O'Carroll, A. G., J. R. Eyre, and R. W. Saunders (2008), Three-way error analysis between AATSR, AMSR-E, and in situ sea surface temperature observations, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 25(7), 1197-1207.
20. Rayner, N. A., P. Brohan, D. E. Parker, C. K. Folland, J. J. Kennedy, M. Vanicek, T. J. Ansell, and S. F. B. Tett (2006), Improved analyses of changes and uncertainties in sea surface temperature measured in situ since the mid-nineteenth century: The HadSST2 data set, J. Clim., 19, 446-469.
21. Reynolds, R. W., N. A. Rayner, T. M. Smith, D. C. Stokes, and W. Wang (2002), An improved in situ and satellite SST analysis for climate, J. Clim., 15, 1609-1625.
22. Reynolds, R. W., T. M. Smith, C. Liu, D. B. Chelton, K. S. Casey, and M. G. Schlax (2007), Daily high-resolution blended analyses for sea surface temperatures, J. Clim., 20, 5473-5496.
23. Servain, J., et al (1998), A Pilot Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic (PIRATA), Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 79, 2019-2031.
24. Slutz, R. J., S. J. Lubker, J. D. Hiscox, S. D. Woodruff, R. L. Jenne, D. H. Joseph, P. M. Steurer, and J. D. Elms (1985), Comprehensive Ocean- Atmosphere Data Set; Release 1, http://icoads.noaa.gov/Release-1/coads.html, NOAA Environ. Res. Lab., Clim. Res. Prog., Boulder, Colo.
25. Smith, T. M., and R. W. Reynolds (2003), Extended reconstruction of global sea surface temperatures based on COADS data (1854-1997), J. Clim., 16, 1495-1510.
26. Stark, J. D., C. J. Donlon, M. J. Martin, and M. E. McCulloch (2007), An operational, high resolution, real time, global sea surface temperature analysis system, paper presented at Oceans 2007: Marine Challenges: Coastline to Deep Sea, IEEE/Oceanic Eng. Soc, Aberdeen, Scotland, 18-21 June.
27. Strong, A. E., and E. P. McClain (1984), Improved ocean surface temperatures from space - Comparisons with drifting buoys, Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc, 65(2), 138-142.
28. Walton, C. C., W. G. Pichel, J. F. Sapper, and D. A. May (1998), The development and operational application of nonlinear algorithms for the measurement of sea surface temperatures with the NOAA polar-orbiting environmental satellites, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 27,999-28,012.
29. Wolter, K. (1997), Trimming problems and remedies in COADS, J. Clim., 10, 1980-1997.
30. Woodruff, S. D. (2008), Common issues of quality control of surface marine data, paper presented at Data Management Coordination Group 3rd Session, JCOMM, Ostend, Belgium, 26-28 March.
31. Woodruff, S. D., H. F. Diaz, J. D. Elms, and S. J. Worley (1998), COADS release 2 data and metadata enhancements for improvements of marine surface flux fields, Phys. Chem. Earth, 23, 517-527.
32. Woodruff, S. D., H. F. Diaz, E. C. Kent, R. W. Reynolds, and S. J. Worley (2008), The evolving SST record from ICOADS, in Climate Variability and Extremes during the Past 100 Years, vol. 33, Advances in Global Change Research, edited by S. Brönnimann et al., pp. 65-83, Springer, New York.
33. World Meteorological Organization (2007), WMO No. 386, Manual on the Global Telecommunication System, World Meteorol. Organ., Geneva, Switzerland.
34. Worley, S. J., S. D. Woodruff, R. W. Reynolds, S. J. Lubker, and N. Lott (2005), ICOADS release 2.1 data and products, Int. J. Climatol., 25(7), 823-842.
35. Worley, S. J., et al (2009), The role of ICOADS in the sustained ocean observing system, community white paper presented at OceanObs'09, Intergov. Oceanogr. Comm. (UNESCO) and Eur. Space Agency, 21-25 Sept.