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Assessing the impact of satellite‐based observations in sea surface temperature trends
Author(s) -
Huang Boyin,
Liu Chunying,
Banzon Viva F.,
Zhang HuaiMin,
Karl Thomas R.,
Lawrimore Jay H.,
Vose Russell S.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1002/2016gl068757
Subject(s) - advanced very high resolution radiometer , sea surface temperature , climatology , satellite , environmental science , classification of discontinuities , radiometer , remote sensing , radiometry , meteorology , geology , geography , physics , mathematical analysis , mathematics , astronomy
Global trends of sea surface temperature (SST) are assessed for the existing and new experimental SST analyses that incorporate advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR) observations from NOAA polar‐orbiting satellites. These analyses show that globally and annually averaged SST trends over the 21st century (2000–2015) are similar to the trends for the full satellite record period (1982–2015), regardless of whether AVHRR data are included in the analyses. It is shown that appropriate bias correction is an important step to remove discontinuities of AVHRR data for consistent time series and trend analysis.