Quality-controlled sea surface temperature, salinity and other measurements from thermosalinographs (TSG) from the CORNIDE DE SAAVEDRA, METEOR and 216 other platforms in the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian Oceans and other locations from 1989-7-20 to 2016-7-31 (NCEI Accession 0156189)

To facilitate understanding of, and access to, the information available for in situ sea surface measurements, NOAA NCEI has constructed a Global Thermosalinographs Database (NCEI-TSG). This accession contains a comprehensive set of quality controlled in-situ sea surface temperature (SST) and salinity (SSS) measurements collected by thermosalinographs (TSG) from 1989 to present from 218 platforms. This is the first release of the dataset. Data are from different data assembly centers e.g. COAPS (SAMOS), IODE (GOSUD) and AOML. When duplicate data were found in different sources, the one with highest sampling resolution was selected. The selected data have been quality controlled and reconstructed to one file per platform per month per wmo square. All the data are in NetCDF-4 format and self-explanatory with enhanced global and variable attributes. The goal is to provide a well-organized, uniformly quality-controlled TSG dataset to the user community. The spatial coverage is worldwide and the temporal resolution varies from 1 second to 1 hour depending on the resolution of the source data.