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GHRSST Level 2P Central Pacific Regional Skin Sea Surface Temperature from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) Imager on the GOES-15 satellite (GDS version 2)

Metadata Updated: December 7, 2023

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) operated by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) support weather forecasting, severe storm tracking, meteorology and oceanography research. Generally there are several GOES satellites in geosynchronous orbit at any one time viewing different earth locations including the GOES-15 launched 4 March 2010. The radiometer aboard the satellite, The GOES N-P Imager, is a five channel (one visible, four infrared) imaging radiometer designed to sense radiant and solar reflected energy from sampled areas of the earth. The multi-element spectral channels simultaneously sweep east-west and west-east along a north-to-south path by means of a two-axis mirror scan system retuning telemetry in 10-bit precision. For this Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) dataset, skin sea surface temperature (SST) measurements are calculated from the far IR channels of GOES-15 at full resolution on a half hourly basis. In native satellite projection, vertically adjacent pixels are averaged and read out at every pixel. L2P datasets including Single Sensor Error Statistics (SSES) are then derived following the GHRSST Data Processing Specification (GDS) version 2.0. The full disk image is subsetted into granules representing distinct northern and southern regions.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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References

https://doi.org/10.1175/2008BAMS2528.1

Dates

Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

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Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023
Publisher NASA/JPL/PODAAC
Maintainer
Identifier C2036881909-POCLOUD
Data First Published 2013-08-12
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2017-04-28
Category GHRSST, geospatial
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 026:00
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Citation NOAA/NESDIS/OSPO. 2014-11-17. Sea Surface Temperature produced by NOAA/NESDIS. Version 1.0. GHRSST Level 2P Central Pacific Regional Skin Sea Surface Temperature at 0.05 degree resolution from GOES-15 Imager. Camp Springs, MD (USA). Archived by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Government, PO.DAAC. https://doi.org/10.5067/GHG15-2PO02. https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/star/index.php.
Creator NOAA/NESDIS/OSPO
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Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/GHG15-2PO02
Metadata Type geospatial
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Program Code 026:001
Related Documents https://doi.org/10.1175/2008BAMS2528.1
Release Place Camp Springs, MD (USA)
Series Name Sea Surface Temperature produced by NOAA/NESDIS
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Temporal 2013-08-01T13:22:00Z/2020-03-02T16:00:20Z

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