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ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal du Conseil 2009 66(7):1467-1479; doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsp041
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Crown Copyright © 2009. Published by Oxford Journals on behalf of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. All rights reserved

This article appears in the following ICES Journal of Marine Science issue: Effects of Climate Change on the World's Oceans [View the issue table of contents]

Comparison of in situ time-series of temperature with gridded sea surface temperature datasets in the North Atlantic

Sarah L. Hughes1, N. Penny Holliday2, Eugene Colbourne3, Vladimir Ozhigin4, Hedinn Valdimarsson5, Svein Østerhus6 and Karen Wiltshire7

1 Fisheries Research Services, Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen, UK
2 National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK
3 Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre, St Johns, Canada
4 Knipovich Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography, Murmansk, Russia
5 Marine Research Institute, Reykjavík, Iceland
6 Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway
7 Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany

Correspondence to S. L. Hughes: tel: +44 1224 876544; fax: +44 1224 295511; e-mail: s.hughes{at}marlab.ac.uk

Hughes, S. L., Holliday, N. P., Colbourne, E., Ozhigin, V., Valdimarsson, H., Østerhus, S., and Wiltshire, K. 2009. Comparison of in situ time-series of temperature with gridded sea surface temperature datasets in the North Atlantic. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 66: 1467–1479.

Analysis of the effects of climate variability and climate change on the marine ecosystem is difficult in regions where long-term observations of ocean temperature are sparse or unavailable. Gridded sea surface temperature (SST) products, based on a combination of satellite and in situ observations, can be used to examine variability and long-term trends because they provide better spatial coverage than the limited sets of long in situ time-series. SST data from three gridded products (Reynolds/NCEP OISST.v2., Reynolds ERSST.v3, and the Hadley Centre HadISST1) are compared with long time-series of in situ measurements from ICES standard sections in the North Atlantic and Nordic Seas. The variability and trends derived from the two data sources are examined, and the usefulness of the products as a proxy for subsurface conditions is discussed.

Keywords: climatology, North Atlantic, sea surface temperature, time-series

Received 15 August 2008; accepted 25 January 2009; advance access publication 15 March 2009.


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