GHRSST Level 2P Western Pacific Regional Skin Sea Surface Temperature from the Multifunctional Transport Satellite 2 (MTSAT-2) (GDS version 2)
(MTSAT2-OSPO-L2P-v1.0)Version | 1.0 |
Processing Level | 2P |
Start/Stop Date | 2013-Aug-01 to 2015-Dec-04 |
Short Name | MTSAT2-OSPO-L2P-v1.0 |
Description | 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 stabilized 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-2 (also known as Himawari 7) and its radiometer (MTSAT-2 Imager) was successfully launched on 18 February 2006. 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-2 Imager full resolution data in satellite projection on a hourly basis by using Bayesian Cloud Mask algorithm at the Office of Satellite and Product Operations (OSPO). L2P datasets including Single Sensor Error Statistics (SSES) are then derived following the GHRSST Data Processing Specification (GDS) version 2.0. |
DOI | 10.5067/GHMT2-2PO02 |
Measurement | OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE |
Swath Width | 12000 km |
Platform/Sensor | MTSAT-2 / Platform Name: The Multi-functional Transport Satellite 2 (MTSAT-2) Orbit Period: 0.0 minutes Inclination Angle: 0.0 degrees MTSAT 2 Imager SENSOR Name: Multifunction Transport 2 Imager (MTSAT 2 Imager) Swath Width: 12000.0 kilometers Description: Spacecraft angular distance from orbital plane relative to the Equator. |
Project | Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) |
Data Provider | Publisher: NOAA/NESDIS Creator: NOAA/NESDIS/OSPO Release Place: NASA/JPL/PO.DAAC Release Date: 2014-Nov-17 Resource: http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/sod/mecb/goes_validation/test/top_background.php |
Format | netCDF-4 |
Keyword(s) | GHRSST, sea surface temperature, L2P, sst, surface temperature, GDS2, v1.0, mtsat, mtsat2, ospo |
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Resolution Spatial Resolution: 4000 Meters x 4000 Meters Temporal Resolution: Hourly - < Daily Coverage Region: PACIFIC OCEAN North Bounding Coordinate: 79 degrees South Bounding Coordinate: -80 degrees West Bounding Coordinate: 64 degrees East Bounding Coordinate: 180 degrees Time Span: 2013-Aug-01 to 2015-Dec-04 Granule Time Span: 2013-Aug-01 to 2015-Dec-04Swath Width: 12000 km Projection Projection Type: Satellite native view Projection Detail: Geolocation information included for each pixel Ellipsoid: WGS 84 |
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Citation | NOAA/NESDIS/OSPO. 2014. Sea Surface Temperature, 80E-180E and 55S-55N, at 0.036 degree resolution from MTSAT-1R Imager Sectors every 1.0 hour. Ver. 1.0. PO.DAAC, CA, USA. Dataset accessed [YYYY-MM-DD] at https://doi.org/10.5067/GHMT2-2PO02
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Journal Reference | File specification: GHRSST Data Processing Specification v2.0. SST Algorithm: ATBD Baysian Cloud Screening for GOES-12 (NOAA/NESDIS) . |
Version | Dataset | Version Date | Status | |
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1.0 | GHRSST Level 2P Western Pacific Regional Skin Sea Surface Temperature from the Multifunctional Transport Satellite 2 (MTSAT-2) (GDS version 2) | 2013-08-12 | COMPLETE | 2013-08-12T19:35:26.705Z |
4 | GHRSST Level 2P Western Pacific Regional Skin Sea Surface Temperature from the Multifunctional Transport Satellite 2 (MTSAT-2) | 2011-06-28 | RETIRED | 1309278085990 |