Global Level 4 GHRSST Operational Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Ice
Analysis (OSTIA) data produced by the UK Met Office are now
available from the PO.DAAC. These data are in the new GDS2 format using
netCDF4. This particular Level 4 dataset is on a 0.05 deg grid and produced
once a day. Data are available from April 2013 to present.
More information on this dataset can be found here:
http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/OSTIA-UKMO-L4-GLOB-v2.0
Access is currently through FTP and OPeNDAP at these locations:
ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/OceanTemperature/ghrsst/data/GDS2/L4/GLOB/UKMO/OSTIA/v2/
http://opendap.jpl.nasa.gov/opendap/OceanTemperature/ghrsst/data/GDS2/L4/GLOB/UKMO/OSTIA/v2/contents.html
The GDS2 specification document can be found here:
ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/OceanTemperature/ghrsst/docs/GDS20r5.pdf
More information on the Group for High Resolution SST (GHRSST) project can be
found here:
http://ghrsst.org
http://ghrsst.jpl.nasa.gov
http://ghrsst.nodc.noaa.gov