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

GHRSST Level 2P Western Pacific Regional Skin Sea Surface Temperature from the Multifunctional Transport Satellite 1R (MTSAT-1R)
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Persistent IDPODAAC-GHMT1-2PO01
Short NameOSDPD-L2P-MTSAT1R
DescriptionMulti-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 it's 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.
Journal ReferenceGOES-SST Programmers Reference Manual
Dataset TypeOPEN
MeasurementOceans > Ocean Temperature > Sea Surface Temperature > Skin Sea Surface Temperature
Processing Level2P
CoverageRegion: Western Pacific Ocean
Northernmost Latitude: 73 degrees
Southernmost Latitude: -73 degrees
Westernmost Longitude: 60 degrees
Easternmost Longitude: -143 degrees
Time Span: 2009-Nov-22 to 2010-Dec-22
ResolutionSpatial Resolution: 4 km (Along) x 4 km (Across)
ProjectionType: Satellite native view
Detail: Geolocation information included for each pixel
Ellipsoid: WGS 84
Latency6 hours
Swath Width12000 km
Sample Frequency-
Temporal Repeat (Nominal)-
Temporal Repeat (Min)-
Temporal Repeat (Max)-
Platform/Sensor
MTSAT1R
Platform
Name: Multi-functional Transport Satellite 1 Replacement (MTSAT1R)
Orbit Period: 0 minutes
Inclination Angle: 0 degrees
Ascending Node: -
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MTSAT 1R Imager
SENSOR
Name: Multifunctional Transport Satellites 1R Imager (MTSAT 1R Imager)
Swath Width: 12000 km
Description: MTSAT 1R carries a 5 channel scanning radiometer with four IR channels and one visible channel.

ProjectGroup for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST)
Data ProviderCreator: NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD
Release Place: Camp Springs, MD (USA)
Release Date: 2009-Aug-09
Resource: none
Keyword(s)GHRSST, sea surface temperature, L2P, sst, surface temperature
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