Topic: Retirement of NOAA-15 AVHRR CoastWatch SST Products

Date/Time Issued: December 13, 2022 1857 UTC

Product(s) or Data Impacted: CoastWatch NOAA-15 AVHRR SST Products

Date/Time of Initial Impact: January 17, 2022 13:00 UTC

Date/Time of Expected End: TBD

Length of Outage: Retirement of product.

Details/Specifics of Change: We will retire the CoastWatch NOAA-15 AVHRR SST products due to degradation of the NOAA-15 satellite. This will include all of the NOAA AVHRR CoastWatch SST products.

All files with names in the following format:

YYYY_DDD_HHMM_SSS_RR.FMT where

YYYY Full year

DDD Julian day [001-366]

HHMM Hour and minutes UTC

SSS n15 and m01

RR CoastWatch region code gc,aa,ax,ay,az,ni,ce,cw,mr,wa,wi,er,sr,sb,gr,eb,hr,mo,wj,wn,ws, and sl

FMT File types hdf,log,inf and jpg

example:

2022_340_1420_m01_wi.jpg

2022_340_0552_n15_gc.hdf

[gc,aa,ax,ay,az,ni,ce,cw,mr,wa,wi,er,sr,sb,gr,eb,hr,mo,wj,wn,ws,sl].[hdf,log,inf,jpg]

Note: This retirement of NOAA-15 AVHRR SST products (CoastWatch Monitoring Products) is linked to the previous retirement notice for Legacy Product Retirement:

https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/messages/2022/09/MSG_20220930_1721.html

Contact Information for Further Information: ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov and 301-817-3880

Web Site(s) for applicable information: https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/messages/2022/09/MSG_20220930_1721.html

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