Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly on July 31, 2023

This repository contains code in R to replicate the following graphic:

Source

Title: What This Year’s ‘Astonishing’ Ocean Heat Means for the Planet
Author(s): Elena Shao
Date: Aug 3, 2023
From: New York Times
URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/03/climate/ocean-temperatures-heat-earth.html
PDF: Ocean-Temperatures-Are-Hotter-Than-Ever-NYT.pdf

The source of the data is NOAA’s Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature (OISST) (https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/optimum-interpolation-sst).

To be more precise the data files (in NetCDF format) are in the Gridded Data (version 2.1) section:

The particular file of interest is available is the nc (NetCDF) file corresponding to July 31, 2023:

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