Quality Assessment of Sea Surface Temperature from ATSRs of the Climate Change Initiative (Phase 1)
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Datasets
2.1. Satellite SST Retrievals
2.2. In Situ Observations and Quality Control
3. CCI SST Validation
3.1. Individual Performance
3.2. Geographical Distribution
3.3. Time Series
3.4. Triple Collocation Analysis
3.5. Validation of Uncertainty
4. Comparison with ARC
5. Summary and Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
Abbreviations
AATSR | Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer |
AIRS | Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder |
AMSR-E | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS |
ARC | ATSR Reprocessing for Climate |
ATSR | Along Track Scanning Radiometer |
AVHRR | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer |
CCI | Climate Change Initiative |
Difference of SST | |
Uncertainty of SST | |
ECV | Essential Climate Variable |
ENVISAT | ENVIronmental SATellite |
EOS | Earth Observing System |
ERS | European Remote Sensing |
ESA | European Space Agency |
GSICS | Global Space-based Inter-Calibration System |
GTS | Global Telecommunication System |
IASI | Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer |
ICOADS | International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set |
IR | InfraRed |
MetOp | Meteorological Operational |
MODIS | MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
NIR | Near InfraRed |
NWP | Numerical Weather Prediction |
RSD | Robust Standard Deviation |
SST | Sea Surface Temperature |
TMI | TRMM Microwave Imager |
TRMM | Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission |
MW | MicroWave |
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Algorithm | Mean Bias (K) | St. Deviation (K) | Median Bias (K) | RSD (K) | Number |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
ATSR-1 (08/1991–05/1996) | |||||
Day | 0.13 | 0.67 | 0.13 | 0.55 | 16,241 |
Night | 0.10 | 0.69 | 0.12 | 0.55 | 13,832 |
ATSR-2 (06/1995–05/2003) | |||||
Day | 0.10 | 0.53 | 0.10 | 0.39 | 66,029 |
Night | 0.11 | 0.46 | 0.12 | 0.28 | 45,861 |
AATSR (07/2002–04/2012) | |||||
Day | 0.11 | 0.43 | 0.12 | 0.28 | 274,795 |
Night | 0.10 | 0.39 | 0.11 | 0.22 | 217,622 |
Algorithm | Mean Bias (K) | St. Deviation (K) | Median Bias (K) | RSD (K) | Number |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
ATSR-1 (06/1995–12/1995) | |||||
Day | 0.11 | 0.71 | 0.12 | 0.56 | 3609 |
ATSR-2 (06/1995–12/1995) | |||||
Day | 0.05 | 0.57 | 0.07 | 0.39 | 3791 |
ATSR-2 (08/2002–05/2003) | |||||
Day | 0.09 | 0.52 | 0.11 | 0.39 | 10,794 |
Night | 0.14 | 0.40 | 0.15 | 0.25 | 8203 |
AATSR (08/2002–05/2003) | |||||
Day | 0.08 | 0.50 | 0.10 | 0.34 | 11,429 |
Night | 0.12 | 0.40 | 0.12 | 0.25 | 8719 |
Algorithm | Mean Bias (K) | St. Deviation (K) | Median Bias (K) | RSD (K) | Number |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CCI | |||||
ATSR-1 (08/1991–05/1995) | |||||
Day | 0.15 | 0.65 | 0.14 | 0.53 | 11,060 |
Night | 0.13 | 0.67 | 0.14 | 0.53 | 9373 |
ATSR-2 (07/1996–06/2002) | |||||
Day | 0.10 | 0.53 | 0.10 | 0.39 | 50,125 |
Night | 0.10 | 0.46 | 0.11 | 0.28 | 33,605 |
AATSR (08/2002–12/2009) | |||||
Day | 0.11 | 0.43 | 0.11 | 0.28 | 194,786 |
Night | 0.11 | 0.38 | 0.11 | 0.22 | 152,962 |
ARC | |||||
ATSR-1 (08/1991–05/1995) | |||||
Day | 0.01 | 0.61 | 0.02 | 0.46 | 13,963 |
Night | −0.09 | 0.58 | −0.07 | 0.42 | 10,779 |
ATSR-2 (07/1996–06/2002) | |||||
Day | 0.08 | 0.48 | 0.08 | 0.31 | 50,639 |
Night | 0.04 | 0.43 | 0.04 | 0.24 | 37,333 |
AATSR (08/2002–12/2009) | |||||
Day | 0.08 | 0.37 | 0.09 | 0.21 | 185,114 |
Night | 0.07 | 0.34 | 0.06 | 0.18 | 156,662 |
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Tsamalis C, Saunders R. Quality Assessment of Sea Surface Temperature from ATSRs of the Climate Change Initiative (Phase 1). Remote Sensing. 2018; 10(4):497. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10040497
Chicago/Turabian StyleTsamalis, Christoforos, and Roger Saunders. 2018. "Quality Assessment of Sea Surface Temperature from ATSRs of the Climate Change Initiative (Phase 1)" Remote Sensing 10, no. 4: 497. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10040497
APA StyleTsamalis, C., & Saunders, R. (2018). Quality Assessment of Sea Surface Temperature from ATSRs of the Climate Change Initiative (Phase 1). Remote Sensing, 10(4), 497. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10040497