Mediterranean sea surface temperature map

This daily-updated highest-ever-resolution sea surface temperature (SST) map of the Mediterranean was prepared using satellite data. The two-square-kilometre resolution animation covers November 1 - 25 this year. The colour bar below represents measured SST in Celsius. This SST map was created as part of ESA's Medspiration project, which the European contribution to a global effort to use space resources to create a global high-resolution SST product in order to improve ocean and climate models. This effort is known as the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE) High-Resolution Sea Surface Temperature Pilot Project (GHRSST-PP).

See here the high resolution animation.