ESA Sea Surface Temperature Climate Change Initiative (SST_cci): Climatology Climate Data Record, version 2.2

This v2.2 SST_cci Climatology Data Record (CDR) consists of daily climatological mean sea surface temperature on a global 0.05 degree latitude-longitude grid, derived from the SST CCI analysis data for the period 1982 to 2010 (29 years). This climatology includes the post-hoc dust corrections from Merchant and Embury (2020) https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12162554.The changes from climatology v2.1 are:* Inclusion of post-hoc dust corrections from Merchant and Embury (2020) reduces biases in affected regions (tropical Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean, Red, and Arabian Seas).* Improved compliance with CF Conventions.Data are made freely and openly available under a Creative Commons License by Attribution (CC By 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . When citing this dataset please also cite the associated data paper: Merchant, C.J., Embury, O., Bulgin, C.E., Block T., Corlett, G.K., Fiedler, E., Good, S.A., Mittaz, J., Rayner, N.A., Berry, D., Eastwood, S., Taylor, M., Tsushima, Y., Waterfall, A., Wilson, R., Donlon, C. (2019) Satellite-based time-series of sea-surface temperature since 1981 for climate applications, Scientific Data 6:223. http://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0236-x