Large volumes of data and data services must be harnessed together to deliver the new generation of global coverage high resolution SST data sets that meet the GHRSST User Requirements. A basic 'version-1.0' of the Regional/Global Task Sharing (R/GTS) framework has been implemented in an internationally distributed manner. GHRSST global and regional coverage SST datasets are now produced by GHRSST Regional Data Assembly Centers (RDACs) in Australia, Japan, United States, and Europe.
RDAC SST datasets are passed in near real-time to the operational GHRSST GDAC Global Data Assembly Center (GDAC) at NASA's Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC), where they are integrated together and served to the global application community. GDAC plays an essential role in GHRSST quality control and data and metadata management.
Research and development within GHRSST continues to address the challenges of SST diurnal variability, skin temperature deviations, uncertainty estimates, cloud masking, high latitude SST, and validation/verification of GHRSST datasets. GHRSST data management teams continue to refine the GHRSST data management structures to provide a functional system that conforms to international and federal directives (e.g., the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Interdisciplinary National Science Project Incorporating Research and Education. Experience (INSPIRE), and Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS)).
The Long Term Stewardship and Reanalysis Facility (LTSRF) operates at the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), formerly the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), ingesting and archiving all GHRSST datasets on a daily basis in collaboration with the GDAC. The GHRSST International Project Office, jointly funded by the European Space Agency and Met Office, UK, continues to manage the international coordination of the project.