Sea Surface Temperature (SST) is the independent variable and strong indicator for the marine environment such as fish, coral, pollution and climate change (W.J. Emery, 2015.)

In this study, a 4-km MODIS product, Aqua Level 3 (L3) Standard Map Image (SMI) SST obtained between January 2010 and June 2020 were used to derive the raster SST daytime. SST from year 2010 to 2020, range from 27.73 °C to 34.80 °C, which shows that Peninsular Malaysia water bodies experience warm surface temperature throughout the years.

 The Level 3 monthly Sea Surface Temperature Terra/Aqua-Modis data with resolution 4 km is extracted and downloaded from: https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/l3/order/

The mapped type data is then converted into raster NetCDF and tiff/img format using Erdas/ ArcGIS software.

Azizah Ahmad, Khairul Nizam Abdul Maulud (2022) Monthly Sea Surface Temperature. Institute of Climate Change, UKM. MyIKLIM Database. Available online: https://myiklimysd.ukm.my/stsh_001_eoc/ [accessed on: enter date]

We would acknowledge the NASA’s Ocean Biology Processing Group (OBPG) for providing the ocean satellite dataset for this work.