ESA CCI Products Now Available on the OVL Portal
Monthly SST and SST anomaly products added
by Lucile Gaultier
The following products are available globally:
- Monthly SST (daily SST ESA CCI product has been averaged over a month): https://odl.bzh/zKivgog6
- Monthly SST anomaly (a Monthly climatology have been computed from ESA CCI daily SST over the 1982-2009 period and subtracted from the monthly SST): https://odl.bzh/PZ_qwgfr
Animations showcasing the evolution of Monthly SST, and Monthly SST Anomaly were created using the SEAShot camera tool:
Many well known phenomena can be observed in those videos, among them one can highlight:
- The Warm water propagating across the Pacific ocean during major El Nino events
- A significant warming of the surface ot the ocean revealed by the SST anomaly data, particularly at high latitudes.
Visit the OVL Portal to dive deeper into these datasets and animations.