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    • GHRSST Level 2P Western Atlantic Regional Skin Sea Surface Temperature from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) Imager on the GOES-13 satellite (GDS version 2)

    Metadata Updated: December 6, 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-13 launched 24 May 2006. 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-13 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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    Metadata Created Date May 30, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023

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    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date May 30, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
    Publisher NASA/JPL/PODAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2499940523-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 USA, 5200 Auth Rd, Camp Springs, MD, 20746. 2014-11-17. Sea Surface Temperature produced by NOAA/NESDIS. Version 1.0. GHRSST Sea Surface Temperature 30W-135W and 65N-50S, at 0.036 degree resolution from GOES-13 Imager. NASA/JPL/PO.DAAC. Archived by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Government, NOAA/NESDIS. https://doi.org/10.5067/GHG13-2PO02. NOAA/NESDIS USA, 5200 Auth Rd, Camp Springs, MD, 20746, NOAA/NESDIS, 2014-11-17, GHRSST Level 2P Western Atlantic Regional Skin Sea Surface Temperature from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) Imager on the GOES-13 satellite (GDS version 2), .
    Creator NOAA/NESDIS USA, 5200 Auth Rd, Camp Springs, MD, 20746
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    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/GHG13-2PO02
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -155.0 -68.0 0.0 68.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Release Place NASA/JPL/PO.DAAC
    Series Name Sea Surface Temperature produced by NOAA/NESDIS
    Source Datajson Identifier True
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    Temporal 2013-08-01T13:09:00Z/2018-01-08T15:29:19Z

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