GHRSST Level 2P Western Pacific Regional Skin Sea Surface Temperature from the Multifunctional Transport Satellite 2 (MTSAT-2) (GDS versions 1 and 2) ...

• Main Authors: Maturi, Eileen, Sapper, John F., Harris, Andy, Mittaz, Jonathan, Koner, Prabhat
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information 2011
• Subjects: Pacific; South Pole; North Pole; South pole
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7289/v5df6p8f; https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/GHRSST-MTSAT2-OSPO-L2P

Multi-functional Transport Satellites (MTSAT) are a series of geostationary weather satellites operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). MTSAT carries an aeronautical mission to assist air navigation, plus a meteorological mission to provide imagery over the Asia-Pacific region for the hemisphere centered on 140 East. The meteorological mission includes an imager giving nominal hourly full Earth disk images in five spectral bands (one visible, four infrared). MTSAT are spin stabilized satellites. With this system images are built up by scanning with a mirror that is tilted in small successive steps from the north pole to south pole at a rate such that on each rotation of the satellite an adjacent strip of the Earth is scanned. It takes about 25 minutes to scan the full Earth's disk. This builds a picture 10,000 pixels for the visible images (1.25 km resolution) and 2,500 pixels (4 km resolution) for the infrared images. The MTSAT-2 (also known as Himawari 7) and its radiometer (MTSAT-2 Imager) was ...