GHRSST Level 2P Western Pacific Regional Skin Sea Surface Temperature from the Multifunctional Transport Satellite 1R (MTSAT-1R) (GDS version 1)
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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 stabilised 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-1R (also known as Himawari 6) and its radiometer (MTSAT-1R Imager) was successfully launched on 26 February 2005. For this Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) dataset, skin sea surface temperature (SST) measurements are calculated from the IR channels of the MTSAT-1R Imager full resolution data in satellite projection on a hourly basis. L2P datasets including Single Sensor Error Statistics (SSES) are then derived following the GHRSST Data Processing Specification (GDS) version 1.5.
- Cite as: NOAA NESDIS Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution (OSDPD) (2011). GHRSST Level 2P Western Pacific Regional Skin Sea Surface Temperature from the Multifunctional Transport Satellite 1R (MTSAT-1R) (GDS version 1). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/GHRSST-OSDPD-L2P-MTSAT1R. Accessed [date].
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- netCDF (Version: netCDF-3)
- File Specification: GDS-1.0r1.6, CF-1.0
- File Compression: gzip
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2009-11-22 to 2012-12-26 |
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West: 58.946
East: -133.906
South: -79.41
North: 80.186
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- GHRSST User Guide version 9.1
- The Recommended GHRSST Data Specification (GDS) GDS 2.0 revision 5
- NOAA's Sea Surface Temperature Products From Operational Geostationary Satellites
- GOES Sea Surface Temperature Products: Background
- P5.16 Geostationary Sea Surface Temperature Product Validation and Methodology
- GOES Sea Surface Products: SST Monitoring
- Ionin, Raisa; Hager, Lori. Data Stewardship Maturity Report for GHRSST Level 2P Western Pacific Regional Skin Sea Surface Temperature from the Multifunctional Transport Satellite 1R (MTSAT-1R) (GDS versions 1 and 2). NOAA Technical Information Series NESDIS DSMR; 00115. 2021. https://doi.org/10.25923/xsh4-x412
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- publication: 2011-09-03
- revision: 2017-11-28
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This collection includes data from the following product(s): GHRSST Level 2P Western Pacific Regional Skin Sea Surface Temperature from the Multifunctional Transport Satellite 1R (MTSAT-1R) (OSDPD-L2P-MTSAT1R). |
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- Cite as: NOAA NESDIS Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution (OSDPD) (2011). GHRSST Level 2P Western Pacific Regional Skin Sea Surface Temperature from the Multifunctional Transport Satellite 1R (MTSAT-1R) (GDS version 1). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/GHRSST-OSDPD-L2P-MTSAT1R. Accessed [date].
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- Cite as: NOAA NESDIS Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution (OSDPD) (2011). GHRSST Level 2P Western Pacific Regional Skin Sea Surface Temperature from the Multifunctional Transport Satellite 1R (MTSAT-1R) (GDS version 1). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/GHRSST-OSDPD-L2P-MTSAT1R. Accessed [date].
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