This doesn't get much of a mention, but its there.
A 1/4°-Spatial-Resolution Daily Sea Surface Temperature Climatology Based on a Blended Satellite and in situ Analysis Banzon, V.F., R.W. Reynolds, D. Stokes, and Y. Xue Journal of Climate 2014 27:21, 8221-8228
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00293.1
This doesn't get much of a mention, but its there. A 1/4°-Spatial-Resolution Daily Sea Surface Temperature Climatology Based on a Blended Satellite and in situ Analysis Banzon, V.F., R.W. Reynolds, D. Stokes, and Y. Xue Journal of Climate 2014 27:21, 8221-8228 http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00293.1