GOES(Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites) Sea Surface Temperature Products
NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS) has generated Sea Surface Temperature (SST) products from Geostationary (GOES) East (E) and West(W) satellite imagers on an operational basis since December of 2000. Since that time, a process of continual development has produced steady improvements in product accuracy. Due to ongoing development, the quality of these retrievals now approches that of SST products from the polar orbiting Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR). These products from GOES satellites provide hourly, 3-hourly and 24-hourly composite SST imagery at 0.05o, a level 2 preprocessed product every 1/2 hour for each hemisphere, and a match-up data file. These products provide to the user community a reliable source of SST observations, with improved accuracy in important oceanographic, meterological and climatic regions.