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Dataset Title:	NOAA ERSSTv5 (in situ only) (sst.mnmean), 2.0°, 1854-present
Institution:	This version written at NOAA/ESRL PSD: obtained from NOAA/NESDIS/National Centers for Environmental Information and time aggregated. Original Full Source: NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI/CCOG   (Dataset ID: noaa_psl_9958_9cc5_03db)
Information:	Summary | License | FGDC | ISO 19115 | Metadata | Background | Make a graph

 

Dimensions	Start	Stride	Stop	Size	Spacing
time (UTC)				2054	30 days 10h 29m 52s (uneven)
latitude (degrees_north)				89	-2.0 (even)
longitude (degrees_east)				180	2.0 (even)

Grid Variables (which always also download all of the dimension variables)

sst (Monthly Means of Sea Surface Temperature, degree_C)

File type: (more information) .asc - View OPeNDAP-style ISO-8859-1 comma-separated text. .csv - Download a ISO-8859-1 comma-separated text table (line 1: names; line 2: units; ISO 8601 times). .csvp - Download a ISO-8859-1 .csv file with line 1: name (units). Times are ISO 8601 strings. .csv0 - Download a ISO-8859-1 .csv file without column names or units. Times are ISO 8601 strings. .das - View the dataset's metadata via an ISO-8859-1 OPeNDAP Dataset Attribute Structure (DAS). .dds - View the dataset's structure via an ISO-8859-1 OPeNDAP Dataset Descriptor Structure (DDS). .dods - OPeNDAP clients use this to download the data in the DODS binary format. .esriAscii - Download an ISO-8859-1 ESRI ASCII file (latitude longitude data only; longitude must be all below or all above 180). .fgdc - View the dataset's UTF-8 FGDC .xml metadata. .graph - View a Make A Graph web page. .help - View a web page with a description of griddap. .html - View an OPeNDAP-style HTML Data Access Form. .htmlTable - View a UTF-8 .html web page with the data in a table. Times are ISO 8601 strings. .iso19115 - View the dataset's ISO 19115-2/19139 UTF-8 .xml metadata. .itx - Download an ISO-8859-1 Igor Text File. Each axis variable and each data variable becomes a wave. .json - View a table-like UTF-8 JSON file (missing value = 'null'; times are ISO 8601 strings). .jsonlCSV1 - View a UTF-8 JSON Lines CSV file with column names on line 1 (mv = 'null'; times are ISO 8601 strings). .jsonlCSV - View a UTF-8 JSON Lines CSV file without column names (mv = 'null'; times are ISO 8601 strings). .jsonlKVP - View a UTF-8 JSON Lines file with Key:Value pairs (missing value = 'null'; times are ISO 8601 strings). .mat - Download a MATLAB binary file. .nc - Download a NetCDF-3 binary file with COARDS/CF/ACDD metadata. .ncHeader - View the UTF-8 header (the metadata) for the NetCDF-3 .nc file. .ncml - View the dataset's structure and metadata as a UTF-8 NCML .xml file. .nccsv - Download a NetCDF-3-like 7-bit ASCII NCCSV .csv file with COARDS/CF/ACDD metadata. .nccsvMetadata - View the dataset's metadata as the top half of a 7-bit ASCII NCCSV .csv file. .ncoJson - Download a UTF-8 NCO lvl=2 JSON file with COARDS/CF/ACDD metadata. .odvTxt - Download time,latitude,longitude,otherVariables as an ODV Generic Spreadsheet File (.txt). .parquet - Download as a parquet file. Metadata contains column names ("column_names") and units ("column_units"). .parquetWMeta - Download as a parquet file with detailed metadata. .timeGaps - View a UTF-8 list of gaps in the time values which are larger than the median gap. .tsv - Download a ISO-8859-1 tab-separated text table (line 1: names; line 2: units; ISO 8601 times). .tsvp - Download a ISO-8859-1 .tsv file with line 1: name (units). Times are ISO 8601 strings. .tsv0 - Download a ISO-8859-1 .tsv file without column names or units. Times are ISO 8601 strings. .wav - Download a .wav audio file. All columns must be numeric and of the same type. .xhtml - View a UTF-8 XHTML (XML) file with the data in a table. Times are ISO 8601 strings. .geotif - View a grayscale GeoTIFF .tif file (for latitude longitude data; longitude must be all below or all above 180). .kml - View a Google Earth .kml file (for latitude, longitude data only). .smallPdf - View a small .pdf image file with a graph or map. .pdf - View a standard, medium-sized .pdf image file with a graph or map. .largePdf - View a large .pdf image file with a graph or map. .smallPng - View a small .png image file with a graph or map. .png - View a standard, medium-sized .png image file with a graph or map. .largePng - View a large .png image file with a graph or map. .transparentPng - View a .png image file (just the data, without axes, landmask, or legend).

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The Dataset Attribute Structure (.das) for this Dataset

Attributes {
  time {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Time";
    Float64 actual_range -3.6605952e+9, 1.738368e+9;
    String avg_period "0000-01-00 00:00:00";
    String axis "T";
    String delta_t "0000-01-00 00:00:00";
    String ioos_category "Time";
    String long_name "Time";
    String prev_avg_period "0000-00-07 00:00:00";
    String standard_name "time";
    String time_origin "01-JAN-1970 00:00:00";
    String units "seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z";
  }
  latitude {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Lat";
    Float32 actual_range -88.0, 88.0;
    String axis "Y";
    String coordinate_defines "center";
    String ioos_category "Location";
    String long_name "Latitude";
    String standard_name "latitude";
    String units "degrees_north";
  }
  longitude {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Lon";
    Float32 actual_range 0.0, 358.0;
    String axis "X";
    String coordinate_defines "center";
    String ioos_category "Location";
    String long_name "Longitude";
    String standard_name "longitude";
    String units "degrees_east";
  }
  sst {
    Float32 actual_range -1.8, 42.32636;
    Float64 colorBarMaximum 32.0;
    Float64 colorBarMinimum 0.0;
    String ioos_category "Temperature";
    String level_desc "Surface";
    String long_name "Monthly Means of Sea Surface Temperature";
    Float32 missing_value -9.96921e+36;
    String parent_stat "Individual Values";
    String standard_name "sea_surface_temperature";
    String statistic "Mean";
    String units "degree_C";
    Float32 valid_range -1.8, 45.0;
    String var_desc "Sea Surface Temperature";
  }
  NC_GLOBAL {
    String _NCProperties "version=2,netcdf=4.6.3,hdf5=1.10.5";
    String cdm_data_type "Grid";
    String citation "Huang et al, 2017: Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperatures Version 5 (ERSSTv5): Upgrades, Validations, and Intercomparisons. Journal of Climate, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0836.1";
    String climatology "Climatology is based on 1971-2000 SST, Xue, Y., T. M. Smith, and R. W. Reynolds, 2003: Interdecadal changes of 30-yr SST normals during 1871.2000. Journal of Climate, 16, 1601-1612.";
    String comment "SSTs were observed by conventional thermometers in Buckets (insulated or un-insulated canvas and wooded buckets), Engine Room Intakers, or floats and drifters";
    String Conventions "CF-1.6, ACDD-1.3, COARDS";
    String creator_email "esrl.psd.data@noaa.gov";
    String creator_name "Boyin Huang (original)";
    String creator_url "https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/";
    String creator_url_original "https://www.ncei.noaa.gov";
    String data_modified "2025-03-04";
    String dataset_title "NOAA Extended Reconstructed SST V5";
    String date_created "2017-06-30T12:18:00Z";
    String description "In situ data: ICOADS2.5 before 2007 and NCEP in situ data from 2008 to present. Ice data: HadISST ice before 2010 and NCEP ice after 2010.";
    Float64 Easternmost_Easting 358.0;
    Float64 geospatial_lat_max 88.0;
    Float64 geospatial_lat_min -88.0;
    Float64 geospatial_lat_resolution 2.0;
    String geospatial_lat_units "degrees_north";
    Float32 geospatial_laty_max 89.0;
    Float32 geospatial_laty_min -89.0;
    Float64 geospatial_lon_max 358.0;
    Float64 geospatial_lon_min 0.0;
    Float64 geospatial_lon_resolution 2.0;
    String geospatial_lon_units "degrees_east";
    String history 
"created 07/2017 by PSD data using NCEI's ERSST V5 NetCDF values
2025-03-29T07:21:10Z https://psl.noaa.gov/thredds/dodsC/Datasets/noaa.ersst.v5/sst.mnmean.nc
2025-03-29T07:21:10Z http://upwell.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/griddap/noaa_psl_9958_9cc5_03db.das";
    String id "Datasets/noaa.ersst.v5/sst.mnmean.nc";
    String infoUrl "https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/marineocean-data/extended-reconstructed-sea-surface-temperature-ersst-v5";
    String institution "This version written at NOAA/ESRL PSD: obtained from NOAA/NESDIS/National Centers for Environmental Information and time aggregated. Original Full Source: NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI/CCOG";
    String instrument "Conventional thermometers";
    String keywords "aggregated, ccog, centers, data, division, earth, Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Sea Surface Temperature, Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Sea Surface Temperature >, environmental, ersstv5, esrl, full, information, laboratory, latitude, longitude, means, month, monthly, national, ncei, nesdis, noaa, obtained, ocean, oceans, only, original, physical, psd, research, satellite, science, sciences, sea, sea_surface_temperature, service, situ, source, sst, sst.mnmean, surface, system, temperature, time, version, written";
    String keywords_vocabulary "GCMD Science Keywords";
    String license "No constraints on data access or use";
    String metadata_link ":metadata_link = https://doi.org/10.7289/V5T72FNM (original format)";
    Float64 Northernmost_Northing 88.0;
    String original_publisher_url "https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov";
    String platform "Ship and Buoy SSTs from ICOADS R3.0 and NCEP GTS";
    String processing_level "NOAA Level 4";
    String product_version "Version 5";
    String project "NOAA Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature (ERSST)";
    String references "https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/marineocean-data/extended-reconstructed-sea-surface-temperature-ersst-v5 at NCEI and https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.noaa.ersst.v5.html";
    String source "In situ data: ICOADS R3.0 before 2015, NCEP in situ GTS from 2016 to present, and Argo SST from 1999 to present. Ice data: HadISST2 ice before 2015, and NCEP ice after 2015";
    String source_comment "SSTs were observed by conventional thermometers in Buckets (insulated or un-insulated canvas and wooded buckets) or Engine Room Intaker";
    String sourceUrl "https://psl.noaa.gov/thredds/dodsC/Datasets/noaa.ersst.v5/sst.mnmean.nc";
    Float64 Southernmost_Northing -88.0;
    String standard_name_vocabulary "CF Standard Name Table v70";
    String summary "NOAA ERSSTv5 (in situ only). ERSST.v5 is developed based on v4 after revisions of 8 parameters using updated data sets and advanced knowledge of ERSST analysis";
    String testOutOfDate "now-68days";
    String time_coverage_end "2025-02-01T00:00:00Z";
    String time_coverage_start "1854-01-01T00:00:00Z";
    String title "NOAA ERSSTv5 (in situ only) (sst.mnmean), 2.0°, 1854-present";
    Float64 Westernmost_Easting 0.0;
  }
}

 

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Using griddap to Request Data and Graphs from Gridded Datasets

griddap lets you request a data subset, graph, or map from a gridded dataset (for example, sea surface temperature data from a satellite), via a specially formed URL. griddap uses the OPeNDAP Data Access Protocol (DAP) and its projection constraints.

The URL specifies what you want: the dataset, a description of the graph or the subset of the data, and the file type for the response.

• (easy) You can get data by using the dataset's Data Access Form. It makes the URL for you.
• (easy) You can make a graph or map by using the dataset's Make A Graph form. It makes the URL for you.
• (not hard) You can bypass the forms and get the data or make a graph or map by generating the URL by hand or with a computer program or script.

griddap request URLs must be in the form
https://upwell.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/griddap/datasetID.fileType{?query}
For example,
https://upwell.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/griddap/jplMURSST41.htmlTable?analysed_sst[(2002-06-01T09:00:00Z)][(-89.99):1000:(89.99)][(-179.99):1000:(180.0)]
Thus, the query is often a data variable name (e.g., analysed_sst), followed by [(start):stride:(stop)] (or a shorter variation of that) for each of the variable's dimensions (for example, [time][latitude][longitude]).

For details, see the griddap Documentation.

 

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