Terms and Conditions for use of SST CCI datasets from the CCI Open Data Portal
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The CCI datasets held on the CCI Open Data Portal may be used by any user for any purpose, with the following terms and conditions:

1) Users of the CCI data are required to acknowledge the ESA Climate Change Initiative and the SST CCI project together with the individual data providers if the data are used in a presentation or publication.  Please also cite any relevant dataset DOIs (see example citation text below).

2) Users of the CCI data are encouraged to interact with the CCI programme on use of the products, and to provide a copy of all reports and publications using the dataset. An offer of co-authorship should be considered, if the CCI data constitute a major component of a scientific publication.

3) Intellectual property rights (IPR) in the CCI data lie with the researchers and organisations producing the data.

4) Liability: No warranty is given as to the quality or the accuracy of the CCI data or its suitability for any use. All implied conditions relating to the quality or suitability of the information, and all liabilities arising from the supply of the information (including any liability arising in negligence) are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.

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Citation information:  

Please cite the following dataset paper and the relevant dataset DOI (see below for an example and the SST CCI webpages for individual DOIs).

Dataset paper:

Merchant, C. J., Embury, O., Roberts-Jones, J., Fiedler, E., Bulgin, C. E., Corlett, G. K., Good, S., McLaren, A., Rayner, N., Morak-Bozzo, S. and Donlon, C. (2014), Sea surface temperature datasets for climate applications from Phase 1 of the European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative (SST CCI). Geoscience Data Journal. doi: 10.1002/gdj3.20

Example dataset DOI citation:

Merchant, C.J.; Embury, O.; Roberts-Jones, J.; Fiedler, E.K.; Bulgin, C.E.; Corlett, G.K.; Good, S.; McLaren, A.; Rayner, N.A.; Donlon, C. (2014): ESA Sea Surface Temperature Climate Change Initiative (ESA SST CCI): Analysis long term product version 1.0. NERC Earth Observation Data Centre, 24th February 2014. doi:10.5285/878bef44-d32a-40cd-a02d-49b6286f0ea4. http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/878bef44-d32a-40cd-a02d-49b6286f0ea4