Marine heatwaves and cold spells events based on ESA-CCI SSTs (experimental product)

This repository contains an extension of the catalogues of marine heatwaves (MHWs) and cold spells (MCSs) prepared by the National Research Council - Institute of Marine Sciences (CNR-ISMAR, Italy) within the ESA-funded CAREHeat project. The catalogues are based on the ESA-CCI sea surface temperature (SST) dataset (available from https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.cf608234) for the period 1982-2022, on a regular 1°x1° longitude-latitude grid.

Events are identified for each pixel following the methodology of Hobday et al. (2016) after preprocessing. Event categories are provided as daily maps and metrics are given by event. Results are experimental since the post-processing procedure effectively removes interannual variability from the SST record, so please use having consulted the documentation and not for operational purposes. 

A paper describing the dataset is currently in preparation