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Data description paper |
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A new operational Mediterranean diurnal optimally interpolated sea surface temperature product within the Copernicus Marine Service
Andrea Pisano
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
CNR-ISMAR, Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Rome, Italy
Daniele Ciani
CNR-ISMAR, Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Rome, Italy
Salvatore Marullo
CNR-ISMAR, Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Rome, Italy
ENEA, Via Enrico Fermi, 45, 00044 Frascati, Italy
Rosalia Santoleri
CNR-ISMAR, Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Rome, Italy
Bruno Buongiorno Nardelli
CNR-ISMAR, Calata Porta di Massa, 80133 Naples, Italy
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A new operational diurnal sea surface temperature (SST) product has been developed within the Copernicus Marine Service, providing gap-free hourly mean SST fields from January 2019 to the present. This product is able to accurately reproduce the diurnal cycle, the typical day–night SST oscillation mainly driven by solar heating, including extreme diurnal warming events. This product can thus represent a valuable dataset to improve the study of those processes that require a subdaily frequency.
A new operational diurnal sea surface temperature (SST) product has been developed within the...
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