Data Description
CoastWatch, Gulf of Mexico -
The sea surface temperature (SST) products were derived from NOAA's Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites (POES) for the coastal United States. They were created by NOAA CoastWatch Program and are now only available through this website. CoastWatch started with only POES/AVHRR SST data for the East Coast, but later added more regional nodes of Alaska, Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, Hawaii, Great Lakes, Northeast, Southeast and West Coast. The products provided here are in the original CoastWatch Format, which does not apply to the SST data currently created. The new data is now provided in HDF format, which is also available through this web site.
Details - Metadata, Documentation
CLASS Beginning Date | 19910530 |
Ending Date | 20040308 |
ISO Metadata | Complete Record |
Instruments | AVHRR/3 > Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer/3 |
Transfer Size | 250k-500 kbs compressed data, 500 kbs uncompressed angle data, 1.05-2.1 mbs full cov R data |
Related Web Site | Caribbean/Gulf of Mexico Node |
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Pixel Resolution | 1.47 km/pixel, 4.41 km/pixeli (full cov Y) and 0.01 deg/pixel (full cov X) |
Platform | NOAA-16 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-16, NOAA-14 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-14, NOAA-17 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-17, NOAA-11 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-11, NOAA-12 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-12, NOAA-15 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-15 |
Row Count | 512 |
Column Count | 512 |
Output Format | CoastWatch Format |
Graphic File Type | Compressed IMGMAP |
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