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The COMS (Communication, Ocean and Meteorological Satellite) has been used in numerical weather prediction and meteorological monitoring over East Asia and Oceania since it has been launched in 2010. For more active utilization in climate research, the COMS level 3 products should be available in appropriate spatial and temporal resolutions. We compared different methods to generate monthly sea surface temperature (SST) products from the COMS time-series data. We employed three techniques for aggregating the time series, which are arithmetic mean, timeslot average, and moving average, and also used mean ensemble of them. Each level 3 dataset around South Korea was compared with monthly SST product from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) of Aqua satellite during April 2011-March 2014. The timeslot average showed better root mean squared difference (RMSD) during the initial operational period of the COMS, when the retrieved values could be somewhat unstable. Daytime aggregations were derived more accurately by using the arithmetic mean or moving average, and the accuracy of nighttime aggregation was improved by the mean ensemble. Also, the timeslot average presented reasonable results particularly for coastlines where the standard deviation and missing value ratio were greater than normal. Because an optimal aggregation technique was variable depending on spatial and temporal conditions, we should be careful in selecting appropriate method for generation of the COMS level 3 products according to research objectives.
