Long Term Temperature-Gulf of Maine
Long Term Temperature-Georges Bank
Long Term Temperature-S. New England
Long Term Temperature-Middle Atlantic Bight

The Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature (ERSST) dataset is organized by 2° square longitude by latitude bins; thus, it is too coarse grain to exactly represent NE Shelf subregions (Gulf of Maine (GOM), Georges Bank (GB), Southern New England (SNE) and the Middle Atlantic Bight (MAB)).  However, individual data bins are highly correlated with the shorter time series of satellite SST data for each subregion. Four of these data bins have been selected to serve as a long term SST indices for their respective subregions. The center of the ERSST data bin used to represent a subregion is shown on the map as a block dot.