GHRSST Level 2P Atlantic Regional Skin Sea Surface Temperature from the Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed Imager (SEVIRI) on the Meteosat Second Generation (MSG-3) satellite (GDS version 2) for 2016-05-20 (NCEI Accession 0154431)

• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: NOAA NCEI Environmental Data Archive 2016
• Subjects: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; 0154431; 154431; AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS; ICE - COVERAGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WIND SPEED; SEVIRI; satellite data; MSG3; US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; Office of Satellite and Product Operations; US NASA; Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center; Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST); Gulf of Aden; Indian Ocean; Mediterranean Sea; Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin; Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin; Mozambique Channel; North Atlantic Ocean; Red Sea; South Atlantic Ocean; oceanography; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN; OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > ARABIAN SEA; OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > RED SEA; Indian; Western Basin; North Atlantic
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The Meteosat Second Generation (MSG-3) satellites are spin stabilized geostationary satellites operated by the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) to provide accurate weather monitoring data through its primary instrument the Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed Imager (SEVIRI), which has the capacity to observe the Earth in 12 spectral channels. Eight of these channels are in the thermal infrared, providing among other information, observations of the temperatures of clouds, land and sea surfaces at approximately 5 km resolution with a 15 minute duty cycle. This Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) dataset produced by the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) is derived from the SEVIRI instrument on the second MSG satellite (also known as Meteosat-9) that was launched on 22 December 2005. Skin sea surface temperature (SST) data are calculated from the infrared channels of SEVIRI at full resolution every 15 minutes. L2P data products with Single Sensor Error Statistics (SSES) are then derived following the GHRSST-PP Data Processing Specification (GDS) version 2.0.