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oisst

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Sea surface temperature (SST) and ocean color chlorophyll-a (CHLA).

Description

SST example raster data set, at 0.25 degree resolution for global coverage in "longitude180/latitude".

Details

Small sample of 'VIIRS' daily chlorophyll-a 2026-06-15 from near Tasmania.

Created using script in data-raw/ using 'raadtools' package.

References

Reynolds, et al.(2007) Daily High-resolution Blended Analyses. Available from 'NOAA' search for 'OISST'.

Climatology is based on 1971-2000 OI.v2 SST, Satellite data: Navy NOAA19 METOP AVHRR, Ice data: #' NCEP ice Source: NOAA/National Climatic Data Center.

Examples

dim(oisst)
class(oisst)
image(oisst, useRaster = TRUE)
pal <- chl_pal(palette = TRUE)
image(t(chl[nrow(chl):1, ]), col = pal$cols[-1], breaks = pal$breaks)

palr documentation built on Aug. 5, 2026, 9:07 a.m.