OSTIA : Operational Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Ice Analysis

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OSTIA SST data access page

Data format and file compression

The OSTIA data are provided in GHRSST-PP L4 (GDSv1.7) netCDF format and have been compressed using the Bzip2 compressor. Bzip2 provides 50% more compression than conventional GNU gzip files making each OSTIA full resolution data file ~10 MB in size. Decompression software for Bzip2 archives is freely available form the Bzip2 web site.

Data use policy

These data may be used for pure academic research only, with no commercial or other application and all usage must meet the Met Office Standard Terms and Conditions. The data may be used for a maximum period of 5 years. Reproduction of the data is permitted provided the following copyright statement is included: © Crown Copyright 2007, published by the Met Office

Important: You must submit a completed data licence application form before the using the data. If you wish to use copies of the images from these pages, please complete an image reproduction form. This only needs to be completed once for each user.

NOTE that the data should be considered experimental and is currently under development. The data has not yet undergone rigorous validation and the accuracy is not guaranteed in any way.

Archive of analysis products

Click link to access the data file and click the icon to view a quicklook image.

20060501-UKMO-L4HRfnd-GLOB-v01-fv02-OSTIA.nc.bz2