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Search - GVAR_B11


Data Description

    GOES Satellite Data - Block 11 (GVAR_B11)
    GVAR is the data transmission format used to broadcast environmental data measured by the independent GOES Imager and Sounder instruments. The Block 11 data files contain ancillary imager instrument data and metadata that may be useful to expert users as well as the raw soundings that have occurred over a one hour period.

Details - Metadata, Documentation

Begin Date 1995-07-02
Platforms GOES-8, GOES-9, GOES-10, GOES-11, GOES-12, GOES-13, GOES-14, GOES-15
Spatial Coverage Western Hemisphere
Processing Level NOAA Level 1
Data Producer NOAA / NESDIS / OSPO
Themes See Product Details Link
Metadata See Product Details
GOES Transmission Format GVAR Transmission Format
End Date Present
Instruments GOES I-M Sounder, GOES I-M Imager
Spatial Resolution 1 - 4 km
Distribution Format Binary
Data Steward NOAA / NESDIS / NCEI
Update Frequency asNeeded
GOES Instrument Status GOES Instrument Status

Notes

05/01/20 - GOES-15 was decommissioned on March 2, 2020, being replaced by GOES-17 as the operational GOES-West satellite. Please go to the GRABIPRD search page to search and order recent GOES terrestrial data and products. Most of the level 2 products are available, as well.

01/02/18 - The archive of GOES-13 satellite data and derived products ended on January 2, 2018. The replacement for GOES-13, also known as GOES-East, is GOES-16. Please go to the GOES-R Series ABI Products GRABIPRD Search page to order selected GOES-16 data. Only the ABI L1b Radiance data and L2 Cloud and Moisture Imagery products are public at this time. The remainder of the GOES-16 products will be released later this year.

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