Merchant C. J., O. Embury, N. A. Rayner, D. I. Berry, G. K. Corlett, K. Lean, K. L. Veal, E. C. Kent, D. T. Llewellyn-Jones, J. J. Remedios and R. Saunders, A twenty-year independent record of sea surface temperature for climate from Along Track Scanning Radiometers, accepted for J Geophys Res in July 2012.
Analysis is based on the ARC SST dataset which acts as the reference point for forward modelling and SST retrieval within SST CCI.