Table 2.

Statistics of the matchup pairs between in situ SST and ECOSTRESS/MODIS SST from August 2018 to August 2020. Here, “Area” represents estuary or lake name. The time column indicates whether the data is collected in the daytime, or nighttime, or a combination of both (local time). N is the number of matching pairs, R² is the coefficient of determination, slope and Intercept are the linear regression coefficients between the two data sets, bias represents the mean absolute deviation in the ECOSRESS/MODIS data, and RMSD is the root mean square difference.

Satellite	Area	Time	N	R2	Linear Regression		Bias	RMSD
					Slope	Intercept
ECOSTRESS	CB	All	492	0.96	0.99	−0.75	−0.92	1.43
		Day	249	0.93	0.99	−0.69	−0.86	1.39
		Night	243	0.96	0.99	−0.75	−0.97	1.48
	LO	All	50	0.91	0.95	0.72	−0.68	1.45
		Day	23	0.87	0.93	1.61	−0.21	1.54
		Night	27	0.96	0.93	0.58	−1.08	1.36
	CRE	All	117	0.92	0.93	0.77	−1.07	1.61
		Day	49	0.94	0.94	1.06	−0.39	1.13
		Night	68	0.92	0.99	−1.41	−1.56	1.87
	FB	All	85	0.88	0.88	2.33	−0.83	1.61
		Day	51	0.89	0.90	2.11	−0.58	1.49
		Night	34	0.89	0.85	2.87	−1.20	1.78
MODIS	FB	All	225	0.98	0.94	1.60	0.11	0.51
		Day	96	0.97	0.92	2.21	0.19	0.62
		Night	129	0.98	0.96	0.99	0.05	0.41