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Title: GHRSST Level 3U NOAA STAR SST v2.80 from VIIRS on S-NPP Satellite (GDS version 2) for 2024-02-04 (NCEI Accession 0288902)
Abstract: The Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS), starting with S-NPP launched on 28 October 2011, is the new generation of the US Polar Operational Environmental Satellites (POES). The ACSPO SNPP/VIIRS L3U (Level 3 Uncollated) product is a gridded version of the ACSPO NPP/VIIRS L2P product. The L3U output files are 10-minute granules in netCDF4 format, compliant with the Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) Data Specification version 2 (GDS2). There are 144 granules per 24hr interval, with a total data volume of 0.5GB/day. Fill values are reported at all invalid pixels, including pixels with >5 km inland. For each valid water pixel (defined as ocean, sea, lake or river, and up to 5 km inland), the following layers are reported: SSTs, a subset of l2p_flags (including day/night, land, ice, twilight, and glint flags), wind speed, and ACSPO SST minus reference (Canadian Met Centre 0.1deg L4 SST). Only L2P SSTs with QL=5 were gridded, so all valid SSTs are recommended for the users. Per GDS2 specifications, two additional Sensor-Specific Error Statistics layers (SSES bias and standard deviation) are reported in each pixel with valid SST. The ACSPO VIIRS L3U product is monitored and validated against iQuam in situ data in SQUAM. The v2.80 is an updated version from the v2.61 with several L2P algorithm improvements including two added thermal front layers, mitigated warm biases in the high latitudes, and improved clear-sky mask.
Date received: 20240330
Start date: 20240204
End date: 20240204
Seanames: World-Wide Distribution
West boundary: -179.99
East boundary: 179.99
North boundary: 89.99
South boundary: -89.99
Observation types: satellite data
Instrument types: VIIRS
Datatypes: SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE, WIND SPEED
Submitter: Armstrong, Edward M.
Submitting institution: US NASA; Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center
Collecting institutions: US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; Center for Satellite Applications and Research
Contributing projects: GHRSST
Platforms: SNPP (pid: 12214)
Number of observations:
Supplementary information: In this accession, NCEI has archived multiple versions of these data. The latest (and best) version of these data has the largest version number.
Availability date:
Metadata version: 2
Keydate: 2024-02-08 08:00:09+00
Editdate: 2024-03-31 09:09:09+00