GOES-13 GHRSST: Half-Hourly Sea Surface Temperature for the Western Atlantic

GHRSST Level 2P skin sea surface temperature data derived from the GOES-13 satellite's infrared imager. The dataset provides full-resolution measurements on a half-hourly basis, processed following the GHRSST Data Processing Specification version 2.0 and subsetted into regional granules by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Use Cases

• Tracking diurnal warming cycles based on half-hourly measurement frequency
• Modeling ocean-atmosphere heat exchange based on skin sea surface temperature
• Calibrating and validating other satellite SST products based on SSES error statistics
• Analyzing regional thermal patterns in the Western Atlantic based on subsetted granules

Strengths

• Data is derived from a five-channel imaging radiometer providing multi-spectral information
• Measurements are provided at full resolution on a half-hourly basis for high temporal coverage
• Includes Single Sensor Error Statistics (SSES) following the GHRSST GDS version 2.0 specification

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the Western Atlantic regional subset

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Calculated from far IR channels of the GOES-13 satellite imager, with pixels averaged and processed into L2P granules.

Time Range

Likely covers the operational period of GOES-13, launched 24 May 2006.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 02:33:32.703564; freshness should be verified

Geography

Western Atlantic region, from full disk images subsetted into distinct northern and southern granules.