GHRSST L2P sea surface temperature from AVHRR

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Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: NEODAAS

Publication_Date: 20091112

Title: GHRSST L2P sea surface temperature from AVHRR

Edition: 1

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form:

Series_Information:

Series_Name: AVHRR L2P SST

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Publication_Information:

Publication_Place:

Publisher: NEODAAS, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Earth Observation Data Acquisition and Analysis Service

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Processed by Panorama at PML

Online_Linkage: http://www.neodaas.ac.uk/faq/

Description:

Abstract:

A Level 2P swath-based Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) dataset for the North Atlantic area from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) on the NOAA-19 platform (launched on 6 Feb 2009). This particular dataset is produced by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Earth Observation Data Acquisition and Analysis Service (NEODAAS) in collaboration with the National Centre for Ocean Forecasting (NCOF) in the United Kingdom. The AVHRR is a space-borne scanning sensor on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) family of Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites (POES) having a operational legacy that traces back to the Television Infrared Observation Satellite-N (TIROS-N) launched in 1978. AVHRR instruments measure the radiance of the Earth in 5 (or 6) relatively wide spectral bands. The first two are centered around the red (0.6 micrometer) and near-infrared (0.9 micrometer) regions, the third one is located around 3.5 micrometer, and the last two sample the emitted thermal radiation, around 11 and 12 micrometers, respectively. The legacy 5 band instrument is known as AVHRR/2 while the more recent version, the AVHRR/3 (first carried on the NOAA-15 platform), acquires data in a 6th channel located at 1.6 micrometer. Typically the 11 and 12 micron channels are used to derive sea surface temperature (SST) sometimes in combination with the 3.5 micron channel. The highest ground resolution that can be obtained from the current AVHRR instruments is 1.1 km at nadir. The NOAA platforms are sun synchronous generally viewing the same earth location twice a day or more (latitude dependent) due to the relatively large AVHRR swath of approximately 2400 km. NEODAAS-Dundee acquires approximately 15 AVHRR direct broadcast High Resolution Picture Transmission (HRPT) passes per day over NW Europe and the Arctic. Each pass is approximately 15 minutes duration. These are immediately transferred to NEODAAS-Plymouth where they are processed into sea surface temperature (SST) products and converted to L2P specifications.

Purpose:

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Supplemental_Information:

REFERENCE: Miller P, Groom S, McManus A, Selley J and Mironnet N. 1997 PANORAMA: a semi-automated AVHRR and CZCS system for observation of coastal and ocean processes. RSS97: Observations and Interactions Reading, UK Proceedings of the Remote Sensing Society 539-544 http://www.npm.ac.uk/papers/miller_rss97/

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Beginning_Date: 20090906

Ending_Date: Unknown

Currentness_Reference:Unknown

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed

Spatial_Domain:

Description_of_Geographic_Extent:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -60.0

East_Bounding_Coordinate: 60.0

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 90.0

South_Bounding_Coordinate: -24.0

Keywords:

Theme:

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Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE > BULK SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE

Theme_Keyword: NOAA-19 > NATIONAL OCEANIC & ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION-19

Theme_Keyword: AVHRR-3 > ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETER-3

Theme_Keyword: GHRSST > GROUP FOR HIGH RESOLUTION SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE

Theme_Keyword: CWIC > CEOS WGISS INTEGRATED CATALOG

Theme_Keyword: Sea Surface Temperature

Theme_Keyword: Avhrr > Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

Theme_Keyword: Avhrr-lac

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Theme_Keyword: Noaa-19 Satellite

Theme_Keyword: Group For High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature

Theme_Keyword: Nerc Earth Observation Data Acquisition And Analysis Service

Theme_Keyword: Us National Aeronautic And Space Administration; Jet Propulsion Laboratory Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center

Theme_Keyword: Earth Science

Theme_Keyword: Oceans

Theme_Keyword: Ocean Temperature

Theme_Keyword: Sea Surface Temperature

Theme_Keyword: Climatologymeteorologyatmosphere

Theme_Keyword: Oceans

Theme_Keyword: Environment

Theme_Keyword: Biota

Theme_Keyword: World-wide Distribution

Theme_Keyword: North Atlantic Ocean

Theme_Keyword: Northeast Atlantic And Europe

Theme_Keyword: OCEANS

Theme_Keyword: GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

Theme_Keyword: ENGLISH

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Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: GCMD

Place_Keyword: GEOGRAPHIC REGION > GLOBAL

Temporal:

Temporal_Keyword_Thesaurus: GCMD

Temporal_Keyword: 12 Hours (nominally)

Access_Constraints: None

Use_Constraints:

None

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: KENNETH S. CASEY

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: DOUG MAY

Contact_Position: TECHNICAL CONTACT

Contact_Position: TECHNICAL CONTACT

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center SSMC3, 4th Floor, Room 4853, Route: E/OC1 1315 East-West Highway

City: Silver Spring

State_or_Province: Maryland

Postal_Code: 20910

Country: U.S.A.

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Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (301) 713-3272 x133

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 228-688-4859

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: FAX: (301) 713-3300

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 228-688-5577

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: Kenneth.Casey@noaa.gov

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: doug.may@navy.mil

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

Not Available

Logical_Consistency_Report:

Not Available

Completeness_Report:

Not Available

Lineage:

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Not Available

Process_Date: Unknown

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce

Contact_Person: NODC CUSTOMER SERVICE

Contact_Position: DATA CENTER CONTACT

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 1 301 7133277

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 1 301 7133302

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: NODC.Services@noaa.gov

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: DOD/USNAVY/NRL/OCEANOGRAPHY > Oceanography Division, Naval Research Laboratory, U.S. Navy, U. S. Department of Defense

Contact_Person: DOUG MAY

Contact_Position: DATA CENTER CONTACT

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 228-688-4859

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 228-688-5577

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: doug.may@navy.mil

Resource_Description: NEODAAS-L2P-AVHRR19_L

Distribution_Liability:

Not Available

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

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Format_Name: Not Available

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/

Access_Instructions:

DATA CENTER URL

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

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http://www7300.nrlssc.navy.mil/

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DATA CENTER URL

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Online_Option:

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Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/thredds/catalog/ghrsst/L...

Access_Instructions:

Data may be directly downloaded from the NODC via the THREDDS (Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services) server at the URL listed in this metadata record. For more information see the NODC GHRSST project web site: URL: http://ghrsst.nodc.noaa.gov/

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/opendap/ghrsst/L2P/AVHRR...

Access_Instructions:

These data are also served using OPeNDAP (formerly DODS) server. The base URL is: http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/opendap/ghrsst/. For more information see the NODC GHRSST project web site: URL:http://ghrsst.nodc.noaa.gov/. For a listing of OPeNDAP clients which may be used to access OPeNDAP-enabled data sets, please see the OPeNDAP web site at URL: http://opendap.org/

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

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ftp://ftp.nodc.noaa.gov/pub/data.nodc/ghrsst/L2P/A...

Access_Instructions:

Direct FTP access: Navigate to ftp://ftp.nodc.noaa.gov/pub/data.nodc/ghrsst using any FTP client to begin downloading data. For more information see the NODC GHRSST project web site: URL: http://ghrsst.nodc.noaa.gov/

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/ghrsst/L2P/AVHRR19_L/NEO...

Access_Instructions:

Simple Web access: Using any web browser, navigate to URL: http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/ghrsst and begin browsing through the file hierarchy. Clicking on any of the files will prompt you to download that file or will launch any application associated with netCDF files. For more information see the NODC GHRSST project web site: URL: http://ghrsst.nodc.noaa.gov/

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/Archive/Search/

Access_Instructions:

Data may be directly downloaded through the NODC Ocean Archive System at: URL: http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/Archive/Search/. NODC can be contacted directly for custom orders. (When requesting data from the NODC, a data set may be referred to by a 7-digit accession number assigned to individual data sets, see the NODC Ocean Archive System at http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/Archive/Search/.) For more information see the NODC GHRSST project web site: URL: http://ghrsst.nodc.noaa.gov/

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://www.neodaas.ac.uk/faq/

Access_Instructions:

Information about the AVHRR processing system at NEODAAS

Fees: Not Available

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20121101

Metadata_Review_Date: 20130109

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Contact_Person: GCMD User Support Office

Contact_Organization: NASA Global Change Master Directory

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Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: Not Available

City: Lanham

State_or_Province: MD

Postal_Code: 20706

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: Not Available

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: gcmduso@gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

Metadata_Time_Convention: local time