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NOAA's sea surface temperature products from operational geostationary satellites

Maturi, E., Harris, A., Merchant, C. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4687-9850, Mittaz, J., Potash, B., Meng, W. and Sapper, J. (2008) NOAA's sea surface temperature products from operational geostationary satellites. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 89 (12). pp. 1877-1888. ISSN 1520-0477

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To link to this item DOI: 10.1175/2008BAMS2528.1

Abstract/Summary

NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) has generated sea surface temperature (SST) products from Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-East (E) and GOES-West (W) on an operational basis since December 2000. Since that time, a process of continual development has produced steady improvements in product accuracy. Recent improvements extended the capability to permit generation of operational SST retrievals from the Japanese Multifunction Transport Satellite (MTSAT)-1R and the European Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellite, thereby extending spatial coverage. The four geostationary satellites (at longitudes of 75°W, 135°W, 140°E, and 0°) provide high temporal SST retrievals for most of the tropics and midlatitudes, with the exception of a region between 60° and 80°E. Because of ongoing development, the quality of these retrievals now approaches that of SST products from the polar-orbiting Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR). These products from GOES provide hourly regional imagery, 3-hourly hemispheric imagery, 24-h merged composites, a GOES SST level 2 preprocessed product every 1/2 h for each hemisphere, and a match-up data file for each product. The MTSAT and the MSG products include hourly, 3-hourly, and 24-h merged composites. These products provide the user community with a reliable source of SST observations, with improved accuracy and increased coverage in important oceanographic, meteorological, and climatic regions.

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Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Meteorology
ID Code:33730
Publisher:American Meteorological Society

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