GOES-16 satellite data provides hourly sea surface temperature (SST) measurements for the America Region. The European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility (OSI SAF) produces these Level 3 Collated (L3C) products in near real time. Data is derived from the Advanced Baseline Imager using a three-band algorithm and remapped to a 0.05-degree grid.
Use Cases
- Modeling diurnal SST cycles using the hourly temporal resolution.
- Analyzing spatial SST gradients across the 0.05-degree regular grid covering 60S-60N and 135W-15W.
- Correcting atmospheric moisture effects in SST retrievals using the three-band (8.4, 10.3, 12.3 um) algorithm.
- Comparing daytime SST calculations from GOES-16 ABI with historical nighttime-only data from earlier sensors.
- Assimilating near real-time SST fields into numerical weather prediction models for regional forecasting.
Strengths
- Provides daytime SST calculations, a capability not available from previous GOES East sensors.
- Data is remapped to a consistent 0.05-degree regular grid for simplified spatial analysis.
- Uses a three-band algorithm for improved thin cirrus detection and atmospheric correction.
Limitations
- Spatial coverage is limited to the America Region (60S-60N, 135W-15W), not global.
- The specific volume of data (row count, file size) is not disclosed.
- Relies on atmospheric profiles from numerical weather prediction models, which may introduce bias.
Provenance
- Source
- Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) on board the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-16 (GOES-16).
- Collection Method
- Satellite remote sensing retrievals processed by OSI SAF, with level 1 data acquired via the EUMETSAT/EUMETCast system.
- Time Range
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- Freshness
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- Geography
- America Region: 60S to 60N latitude and 135W to 15W longitude.