GHRSST NOAA/STAR Metop-C AVHRR FRAC ACSPO v2.80 0.02 L3U Dataset (GDS v2)

(AVHRRF_MC-STAR-L3U-v2.80)
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Version2.80
Processing Level3
Start/Stop Date2018-Dec-04 to Present
Short NameAVHRRF_MC-STAR-L3U-v2.80
DescriptionThis L3U (Level 3 Uncollated) dataset contains global daily Sea Surface Temperature (SST) on a 0.02 degree grid resolution. It is produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Advanced Clear Sky Processor for Ocean (ACSPO) using L2P (Level 2 Preprocessed) product acquired from the Meteorological Operational satellite C (Metop-C) Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer 3 (AVHRR/3) (https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/AVHRRF_MC-STAR-L2P-v2.80 ) in Full Resolution Area Coverage (FRAC) mode as input. It is distributed as 10-minute granules in netCDF-4 format, compliant with the Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) Data Specification version 2 (GDS2). There are 144 granules per 24-hour interval. Fill values are reported in all invalid pixels, including land 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 major layers are reported: SSTs and ACSPO clear-sky mask (ACSM; provided in each grid as part of l2p_flags, which also includes day/night, land, ice, twilight, and glint flags). Only input 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. Ancillary layers include wind speed and ACSPO minus reference Canadian Meteorological Centre (CMC) Level 4 (L4) SST. The ACSPO Metop-C AVHRR FRAC L3U product is monitored and validated against iQuam in situ data (Xu and Ignatov, 2014) in the NOAA SST Quality Monitor (SQUAM) system (Dash et al, 2010). SST imagery and clear-sky mask are evaluated, and checked for consistency with L2P and other satellites/sensors SST products, in the NOAA ACSPO Regional Monitor for SST (ARMS) system. More information about the dataset is found at AVHRRF_MC-STAR-L2P-v2.80 and in (Pryamitsyn et al., 2021).
DOI10.5067/GHMTC-3US28
MeasurementOCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE
Platform/Sensor
METOP-C
Platform
Name: Meteorological Operational Satellite - C (METOP-C)
Orbit Period: 101.3 minutes
Inclination Angle: 98.7 degrees
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AVHRR-3
SENSOR
Name: Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer-3 (AVHRR-3)
Swath Width: 2400.0 kilometers
Description: Spacecraft angular distance from orbital plane relative to the Equator.

ProjectGroup for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST)
Data ProviderPublisher: PO.DAAC
Creator: NOAA/STAR
Release Place: Camp Springs, MD (USA)
Release Date: 2021-Apr-05
Resource: https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/GHRSST

FormatnetCDF-4
Keyword(s)GHRSST, sea surface temperature, AVHRR, SST, STAR, MetOp-C, v2.80, MetOp, NOAA
Questions related to this dataset? Contact podaac@podaac.jpl.nasa.gov
Resolution
Spatial Resolution: 0.02 Decimal Degrees x 0.02 Decimal Degrees
 
Coverage
Region: GLOBAL
North Bounding Coordinate: 90 degrees
South Bounding Coordinate: -90 degrees
West Bounding Coordinate: -180 degrees
East Bounding Coordinate: 180 degrees
Time Span: 2018-Dec-04 to Present
Granule Time Span: 2018-Dec-04 to 2024-Oct-11
 
Projection
Projection Type: Cylindrical Lat-Lon
Projection Detail: Geolocation information included for each pixel
Ellipsoid: WGS 84
 
NameLong NameUnit
crscoordinate reference system
dt_analysisdeviation from SST referencekelvin
l2p_flagsL2P flags
latlatitudedegrees_north
lonlongitudedegrees_east
or_number_of_pixelsnumber of pixels from the L2Ps contributing to the SST value1
quality_levelquality level of SST pixel
satellite_zenith_anglesatellite zenith angledegrees
sea_surface_temperaturesea surface sub-skin temperaturekelvin
sses_biasSSES bias estimatekelvin
sses_standard_deviationSSES standard deviationkelvin
sst_dtimetime difference from reference timeseconds
sst_front_positionBinary SST front position indicator
sst_gradient_magnitudeSST gradient magnitude valuekelvin/km
timereference time of sst fileseconds since 1981-01-01 00:00:00
wind_speedwind speedm s-1
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Journal Reference Pryamitsyn, V.; Petrenko, B.; Ignatov, A.; Kihai, Y.. 2021. Metop First Generation AVHRR FRAC SST Reanalysis Version 1, Remote Sensing, 13, 20. https://doi.org//10.3390/rs13204046