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) for 2016-05-22 (NCEI Accession 0154411)

• 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; 0154411; 154411; AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS; ICE - COVERAGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WIND SPEED; GOES Imager; satellite data; GOES-13 SATELLITE; 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); Caribbean Sea; Gulf of Mexico; North Atlantic Ocean; North Pacific Ocean; South Atlantic Ocean; South Pacific Ocean; oceanography; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > CARIBBEAN SEA; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MEXICO; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN; Pacific; North Atlantic
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The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) operated by the United States National Oceanographic 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.