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TAO SST
more information TAO data heavily interpolated
X axis: irregular grid of 19 points at 137.00 143.00 147.00 154.00 156.00 158.00 161.00 165.00 167.00 170.00 180.00 190.00 205.00 213.00 220.00 228.00 235.00 250.00 265.00
Y axis: irregular grid of 10 points at -8.00 -5.00 -2.00 0.00 2.00 4.00 5.00 7.00 8.00 9.00

Monthly data available from Jan1980 to Sep2023 ( 525 months)
Variable SST (sea surface temperature) in Celsius
Full metadata.

Get grid points, average area or generate subset
Mask:   add a mask to the list help
Latitude: °N - °N help
Longitude: °E - °E
Year range: -
Boundaries:
Make: average max min set of grid points subset of the field help
Demand at least: % valid points in this region help
helpApply monthly high/low-pass filter
filter
cut-off value months
requiring at least % valid data
helpApply year-on-year high/low-pass filter
filter
cut-off value years
requiring at least % valid data
helpCreate a field with lower time resolution
First fill missing data: ignore, climatology, trend, persistence.
Then apply: -month running mean with direction
Then apply new time scale:
New variable: of SST
Minimum: % valid data
Threshold:
helpCreate a field with lower spatial resolution
Average over blocks of longitude and latitude grid cells

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Please consider downloading this field from the authoritative site.
If you really want to get it here, TAO SST is available as a netcdf file (size 0.241559 MB).
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