New dataset: GHRSST Level 2P Gridded Global Subskin Sea Surface Temperature
from WindSat polarimetric radiometer on the Coriolis satellite
A new sea surface temperature (SST) dataset from the WindSat radiometer on
the Coriolis satellite in now available from the JPL PO.DAAC. This
radiometer senses in the microwave spectrum and is thus relatively immune to
clouds similar to the now defunct AMSR-E instrument on the NASA Aqua
platform. The spatial resolution is 0.25 degrees with a twice daily temporal
resolution. In the data processing chain, a near-real-time (NRT)
dataset (identified with a "rt" within the file name) is made as
available as soon as possible. A subsequent final dataset (identified
by "v7" within the file name) is produced later and contains more
observations than the NRT version. These data are produced by Remote
Sensing Systems in support of the Group for High Resolution Sea Surface
Temperature (GHRSST) Project. Although it is called "L2P Gridded"
it is actually Level 3 (a grid).
Daily data from 2003-present can be found here:
ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/OceanTemperature/ghrsst/data/L2P_GRIDDED/WSAT/REMSS/
http://opendap.jpl.nasa.gov/opendap/OceanTemperature/ghrsst/data/L2P_GRIDDED/WSAT/REMSS/contents.html
More information on the dataset can be found through:
http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/REMSS-L2P_GRIDDED_25-WSAT
http://www.ssmi.com/windsat/windsat_browse.html
http://ghrsst.org