. Collected reprints / Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratories [and] Pacific Oceanographic Laboratories. Oceanography 2. THE SATELLITE-OBSERVED SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE MAPS The National Environmental Satellite Service provides daily worldwide satellite sea-surface temperature (SSST) maps. This product is known as the Global Sea-Surface Temperature Computation (GOSSTCOMP). One form of this is an uncontoured computer printout with sea-surface temperature values for each one-half degree of latitude and longitude. With each numerical value for temperature is a code tha
. Collected reprints / Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratories [and] Pacific Oceanographic Laboratories. Oceanography 2. THE SATELLITE-OBSERVED SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE MAPS The National Environmental Satellite Service provides daily worldwide satellite sea-surface temperature (SSST) maps. This product is known as the Global Sea-Surface Temperature Computation (GOSSTCOMP). One form of this is an uncontoured computer printout with sea-surface temperature values for each one-half degree of latitude and longitude. With each numerical value for temperature is a code that indicates the estimated reliability of the data. If the code is "+4", then the last reading had been taken four days before the date of the map, etc. If the number of days exceeds nine, the code space is blank, and the temperature value given is from historical data. If data are available for the day of the map, a letter appears in the code space. An "+A" indicates that the temperature listed is an average of five readings. A "+B" indicates an average of five to eight values and so on up to "+H" which indicates that over 25 values were averaged. The better maps in our analysis had mostly D's through H's associated with the temperature readings. For this study, the daily map with the highest code letter was selected to represent an entire week. One day was chosen to be representative of a whole week because changes from day to day were observed to be small, and weekly representations were more readily compared than daily maps. They start with the week of January 3-9 and end with June 1-7, 1975. Each map selected was contoured in the area of the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa from 6°S to 15°N and 35°W to 65°E in latitude and longitude. From the collection of maps, one was selected from the early portion of each month to illustrate any monthly differences (Figs. 1-3). 50° E. IO°N. Please note that these images are extracted fro
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