SPoRT Sea Surface Temperature Products
Our SPoRT generated MODIS composites show how clouds can be eliminated with multi-temporal SST imagery while still preserving data integrity and detailed horizontal gradients. The latency imagery provides insight into the age of the data making up the composites. Imagery can be animated to show the most recent trends.
Aqua Satellite
Terra Satellite
RTG SST
The Real-time Global Sea Surface Temperature (SST) product (http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/sst/) is a 0.5x0.5 degree field derived from satellite SST day and night 'superobs', buoy, and ship SST data and is used in the Meso-Eta model at NCEP.
OSTIA SST
The Operational Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Ice Analysis (OSTIA) product (http://ghrsst-pp.metoffice.com/pages/latest_analysis/ostia.html) is a daily 1/20 degree field derived from satellite data, including MODIS, provided by the GHRSST project (http://www.ghrsst-pp.org/), together with in-situ observations.
Bathymetry Data
These ocean depth images were created from a worldwide data base that is a set of 2-minute gridded ocean bathymetry derived from satellite altimetry observations combined with carefully, quality-assured shipboard echo-sounding measurements, by Dr. Walter H.F. Smith, of the NOAA Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry and Dr. David T. Sandwell, of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the University of California, San Diego.
For reference on generation of these data, consult: W.H.F. Smith and D.T. Sandwell, 1997, Global Sea Floor Topography from Satellite Altimetry and Ship Depth Soundings, Science 277 (5334), p.1956-1962.
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