NOAA-11, NOAA-12 POLAR ORBITING SATELLITES - AVHRR MULTI-CHANNEL SST (MCSST) IMAGES

W. Emery (University of Colorado, USA)

Announced availability: 1 June 1993

Data Access

Satellite Multi-Channel Sea Surface Temperature (MCSST) maps are available on-line from the Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research via anonymous FTP to ftp://ccar.Colorado.EDU/. Data files are located in subdirectory /pub/coare/mcsst. Data are also available upon request from NOAA's National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) in Silver Spring, MD (http://www.nodc.noaa.gov).

As of June 1996, data will also be archived at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, NC (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov) and at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO (http://dss.ucar.edu/pub/toga_coare/).

Background

The Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) is a five-channel scanning radiometer that was installed on the NOAA-11 and NOAA-12 Polar Orbiting Satellites. The radiometer provides day and night imaging in the visible (VIS) and infrared (IR), sea surface temperature (SST) determination, estimation of heat budget components and identification of snow and sea ice. The near-IR channel (channel 3: 3.55-3.99 um) and the two IR channels (channel 4: 10.2-11.5 um; channel 5: 11.5-12.5 um) are used to compute SST. Satellite Multi-Channel Sea Surface Temperature (MCSST) maps are available from the University of Colorado.

Data File Information

Number of data files: 60
Dataset volume: 12 MB
mcsst	    - 	indicates a multi-channel sea surface temperature map
1.14.27     - 	dates covered by the image.
		The format is (year.)month.day.(month.)day; if no year
		is present the image is from the 92-93 TOGA COARE project.
img.con     - 	indicates a raw image with overlaid contours
img.enh     -	indicates a raw image without overlayed contours
img.con.smo - 	indicates a smoothed image with overlayed contours
For more information, please contact:

Phil Mislinski
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research
Campus Box 431
Boulder, CO 80309
USA

email: mislinsk@smaug.colorado.edu
Phone: (303) 492-8868
FAX: (303) 492-2825

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