Earth ID: 30363

Monthly Sea-Surface Temperature Anomalies

Released on October 24, 2013

Sea-surface temperature is the temperature of the top millimeter of the ocean's surface. An anomaly is when something is different from normal, or average. A sea-surface temperature anomaly is how different the ocean temperature at a particular location at a particular time is from the normal temperatures for that place. Sea surface temperature anomalies can happen as part of normal ocean cycles or they can be a sign of long-term climate change, such as global warming. These maps show monthly sea-surface temperature anomalies from June 2002 to September 2011, as derived from Aqua’s Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) data. AMSR-E ended data collection in October 2011 due to problems with the rotation of its antenna.

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Credits

Marit Jentoft-Nilsen: Visualizer
Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC): Visualizer

Based on images by Jesse Allen, NASA's Earth Observatory, using Sea Surface Temperature data from the Advanced Microwave Radiometer for EOS (AMSR-E), courtesy Remote Sensing Systems.

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Mission:
Aqua

Data Used:

Aqua/AMSR-E

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Keywords:
SVS >> HDTV
DLESE >> Physical oceanography
SVS >> Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Oceans >> Ocean Temperature >> Sea Surface Temperature
SVS >> Hyperwall
NASA Science >> Earth
SVS >> Presentation

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0