CANONICAL MARINE PARAMETER
Sea-surface temperature
Temperature assigned to the ocean surface or near-surface layer. The exact physical layer depends on the observing method; preserve the SST subtype or measurement depth whenever it is known.
- Canonical key
sea_surface_temperature- Parameter family
- Temperature
- Scientific category
- Physical ocean
- Canonical unit
- degree_C
- CF standard name / vocabulary
- sea_surface_temperature
- Vertical domain
- surface/near-surface
- Required qualifiers
- sst_subtype; measurement_depth; sensor type
- Merge policy
- CONDITIONAL
- Mapped sources
- 14
Marine observation sources
The following registered sources have indexed metadata mappings for this parameter. Consult the registry details for each mapping's verification and review status.
- Global Drifter Program (GDP) NOAA AOML
- NOAA National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) NOAA NDBC
- GTMBA: TAO/TRITON + PIRATA + RAMA NOAA PMEL and international partners
- OceanSITES OceanSITES / GDACs
- ICOADS NOAA NCEI + international partners
- Copernicus Marine Global In-Situ Copernicus Marine Service
- International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP) IABP / University of Washington APL
- International Programme for Antarctic Buoys (IPAB) IPAB / partners
- SOCAT Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas community
- SeaBASS NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group
- GHRSST GHRSST international project / NASA PO.DAAC + NCEI
- Copernicus Marine satellite observations Copernicus Marine Service
- NOAA CoastWatch NOAA NESDIS / CoastWatch
- Voluntary Observing Ships (VOS) via WIS2/ICOADS WMO VOS / national meteorological services