ESA SST CCI v2.1: Data in different product types

Sea surface temperature content in data in different product levels. L2P data are on the original satellite viewing geometry, i.e., an orbital strip with gaps in SST from cloud cover. The L2P data are gridded per orbit to L3U (uncollated gridded data). A day’s worth of L3U data from a given sensor is collated to form the L3C product (collated gridded data). Data from multiple sensors are merged and interpolated to give the daily gap-free SST field of the L4 analysis. All these levels of data are generated within the European Space Agency's Sea Surface Temperature Climate Change Iniative (ESA SST CCI). The data shown here are from v2.1. To access data, see DOI links to the data archive catalogue, below. Python code to plot the data is available: 10.6084/m9.figshare.9777659