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Description

A regional Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) Level 3 Collated (L3C) dataset for the North Atlantic Region (NAR) based on retrievals from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS).

The European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility (OSI SAF) is producing SST products in near real time from Metop/AVHRR and SNPP/VIIRS. Global AVHRR level 1b data are acquired at Meteo-France/Centre de Meteorologie Spatiale (CMS) through the EUMETSAT/EUMETCAST system. NAR SNPP/VIIRS level 0 data are acquired through direct readout and converted into l1b at CMS. SST is retrieved from the AVHRR and VIIRS infrared channels using a multispectral algorithm. This product is delivered as four six hourly collated files per day on a regular 2km grid. The product format is compliant with the GHRSST Data Specification (GDS) version 2.

Product Summary

Platforms
Suomi-NPP
Instruments
VIIRS
Spatial Extent

N: 78.24 S: 13.59 E: 72.97 W: -76.02

Spatial Resolution
0.02 Decimal Degrees x 0.02 Decimal Degrees
Geographic Region
BLACK SEA ,
NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2013-11-11 to 2020-11-20
Data Partner
Satellite Application Facility on Ocean and Sea ice, European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT/OSISAF) ,
Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA (NASA/JPL/PODAAC)
Concept ID
C2036878808-POCLOUD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
5063
Processing Level
3
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Sea Surface Temperature

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

OSISAF. (2015). GHRSST Level 3C North Atlantic Regional (NAR) subskin Sea Surface Temperature from SNPP/VIIRS (GDS V2) produced by OSI SAF [Data set]. NASA Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/GHVRS-3CNO1 Date Accessed: 2025-12-15

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Variables

Variables are a set of physical properties whose values determine the characteristics or behavior of something. For example, temperature and pressure are variables of the atmosphere. Parameters and variables can be used interchangeably. Variable level attributes provide individual information for each variable.

The Name in this table is the variable name. Fill value indicates missing or undefined data points in a variable. Valid range is the range of values the variable can store. Scale factor is used to increase or decrease the size of an object and can be used to correct for distortion. For questions on a specific variable, please use the Earthdata Forum.

Name Description Units Data Type Fill Value Valid Range Scale Factor
adi_dtime_from_sst Difference in hours between the ADI and SST data hour byte -128 -127 to 127 0.1
dt_analysis The difference between this SST and the previous day's SST analysis kelvin byte -128 -127 to 127 0.1
l2p_flags These flags are important to properly use the data. N/A short N/A 0 to 15 1
lat geographical coordinates, WGS84 projection degrees_north float N/A -90 to 90 1
lon geographical coordinates, WGS84 projection degrees_east float N/A -180 to 180 1
or_latitude original latitude of the SST value degrees_north short -32768 -9000 to 9000 0.01
or_longitude original longitude of the SST value degrees_east short -32768 -18000 to 18000 0.01
quality_level These are the overall quality indicators and are used for all GHRSST SSTs N/A byte -128 0 to 5 1
satellite_zenith_angle The satellite zenith angle at the time of the SST observations. angular_degree byte -128 -90 to 90 1
sea_ice_fraction Fractional sea ice cover from OSISAF ice concentration product byte -128 0 to 100 0.01
sea_surface_temperature Temperature of the subskin of the ocean kelvin short -32768 -300 to 4500 0.01
solar_zenith_angle The solar zenith angle at the time of the SST observations. angular_degree byte -128 -90 to 90 1
sources_of_adi This variable provides a pixel by pixel description of where aerosol optical depth were derived from. N/A byte -128 0 to 2 1
sses_bias Bias estimate derived using the techniques describet at http://www.ghrsst.org/SSES-Description-of-schemes.html kelvin byte -128 -127 to 127 0.01
sses_standard_deviation Standard deviation estimate derived using the techniques describet at http://www.ghrsst.org/SSES-Description-of-schemes.html kelvin byte -128 -127 to 127 0.01
sst_dtime time plus sst_dtime gives seconds after 00:00:00 UTC January 1, 1981 seconds int -2147483648 -2147483647 to 2147483647 1
time includes leap seconds since 1981 seconds since 1981-01-01 00:00:00 int N/A N/A 1
wind_speed These wind speeds were created by the ECMWF and represent winds at 10 metres above the sea surface m s-1 byte -128 0 to 127 1
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