AVHRR Pathfinder version 5.3 level 3 collated (L3C) global 4km sea surface temperature. CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: This CDR is used by an international community of scientists (https://www.ghrsst.org/ and others) to monitor the global ocean sea surface temperatures through the generation of level-4 climatology and daily optimally interpolated SST products, to give scientists valuable insights into ocean ecology by helping them to monitor coral reef stress, El Nino-La Nina cycles that influence a wide range of weather conditions, to characterize local habitats, ocean current patterns and for college and high school training to study different oceanographic processes.. OFFICIAL CITATION: Casey, K. and US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; National Centers for Environmental Information (2016). AVHRR Pathfinder version 5.3 level 3 collated (L3C) global 4km sea surface temperature. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. doi: doi:10.7289/V52J68XX [access date]