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This work primarily focuses on the following research questions: (1) Can these operational SST products accurately characterize extreme DW events? (2) What are the amplitudes and frequencies of these events? To answer these, we compute distributions of DW and DW exceedance and compare them amongst the different methods and geostationary sensors. Examination of the DW estimates demonstrates several challenges in accurately deriving distributions of the DW amplitude, particularly associated with estimating the \u201cfoundation\u201d temperature and uncertainties in cloud screening. Overall, the results suggest that current geostationary sensors can reliably assess extreme DW, but the estimates are sensitive to the computational methods applied. We thus suggest careful processing\/screening of the SST retrievals. We find a value of 3 K, corresponding to the 99th percentile, provides a potential practical threshold for extreme warming, but events of at least 6 K were reliably observed. Warming in excess of 6 K occurred somewhere an average of 47% of the time, and its probability at a given location was of O(10\u22126).<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs12223771","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,11,17]],"date-time":"2020-11-17T07:23:28Z","timestamp":1605597808000},"page":"3771","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Assessment of Extreme Diurnal Warming in Operational Geosynchronous Satellite Sea Surface Temperature Products"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Gary A.","family":"Wick","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, R\/PSD2, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sandra L.","family":"Castro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research, University of Colorado, 431 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,11,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"3155","article-title":"A global study of diurnal warming using satellite-derived sea surface temperature","volume":"108","author":"Robinson","year":"2003","journal-title":"J. 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