This WWW page presents analyses of the SST sampling of the newest COADS product. Documentation of COADS as well as the data itself can be obtained from the COADS WWW home page.
COADS version 1C is 2-degree latitude-longitude resolution. The following plots are the SST sampling in 25-year pieces of the record. There are very few observations in the 1800-49 period, and statistics for these years are not shown.
Color key for the plots:
1: At least one observation in a 2-degree latitude-longitude region at
any time in the 25-year period.
2: On average, at least one observation in half of the months (=150 observations).
3: On average, at least one observation in all of the months (=300 observations).
4: On average, at least one observation for each day (=109500 observations).
The blue colors do not mean anything.
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The blue shading is not used.
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April 2001
Todd Mitchell (mitchell@atmos.washington.edu)
JISAO data