Animation of global sea surface temperature (SST) over the period 1 September 1981 to 6 July 2019 based on the GHRSST Level 4 AVHRR_OI Global Blended Sea Surface Temperature Analysis (GDS version 2) from NCEI. The dataset can be accessed from the PO.DAAC Portal at https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/AVHRR_OI-NCEI-L4-GLOB-v2.0 (DOI: 10.5067/GHAAO-4BC02).