Level 2P GHRSST VIIRS Sea Surface Temperature
Global Level 2 sea surface temperature (SST) data from the Visible
Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite are now
available as part of the Group for High Resolution SST (GHRSST) data
collection. This Level 2 swath dataset is produced in near real-time by
NAVOCEANO at the Stennis Space Center, Mississippi. The nadir resolution is
1.5 km as the NAVO processing system aggregates two native resolution
pixels. Data are available from May 2013 to present.
More information on this dataset can be found here:
http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/VIIRS_NPP-NAVO-L2P-v1.0
Access is currently through FTP and OPeNDAP at these locations:
ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/OceanTemperature/ghrsst/data/GDS2/L2P/VIIRS_NPP/NAVO/v1/2013/
http://opendap.jpl.nasa.gov/opendap/OceanTemperature/ghrsst/data/GDS2/L2P/VIIRS_NPP/NAVO/v1/contents.html
This is the first of many upcoming GHRSST datasets that will be produced
using the new GDS2 specification that includes the netCDF4 file format. The
GDS2 specification document can be found here:
ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/OceanTemperature/ghrsst/docs/GDS20r5.pdf
More information on the GHRSST project can be found here:
http://ghrsst.org
http://ghrsst.jpl.nasa.gov
http://ghrsst.nodc.noaa.gov