Toward Estimating Climatic Trends in SST. Part III: Systematic Biases

• Published in: Journal of atmospheric and oceanic technology Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 487 - 500
• Main Authors: Kent, E C, Kaplan, A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston American Meteorological Society 01.03.2006
• Subjects: Air temperature; Marine; Measurement errors; Measurement techniques; Ocean temperature; Oceanography; Sea surface temperature; Solar radiation; Upper ocean; Wind speed

A method is developed to quantify systematic errors in two types of sea surface temperature (SST) observations: bucket and engine-intake measurements. A simple linear model is proposed where the SST measured using a bucket is cooled or warmed by a fraction of the air-sea temperature difference and t...