NESDIS SST Equations and Temperature Charts

• NOAA CoastWatch operational SST equations and validation
• NOAA-16, NOAA-17, NOAA-18 operational SST coefficients Broken link email sent to correct
• Operational satellite Worldwide Sea Surface Temperature analysis charts from the NOAA/NESDIS Product Systems Branch

Other SST Information and Temperature Charts

Technical memo: "Primer on the Measurement of Sea Surface Temperature" by Frank Monaldo, JHU/APL

NOAA satellite SST data can also be retrieved in other formats, including ASCII text and spreadsheets. For more information, go the the NOAA Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System (CLASS).

NOAA National Data Buoy Center current weather, water temperature and sea state conditions from Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and Pacific buoys. Accessed by an interactive locator map.

"Exploring Satellite Oceanography" (a lesson plan for high school students): University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography. Includes many sample images of oceanographic features, and link to the University satellite archive.

A multimedia instructional module on El Nino. Includes a background discussion, conditions responsible for occurrence and impacts. Prepared by the WW2020 Project at the University of Illinois.

NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory La Nina - El Nino site.

Sea Surface Temperature products and information from the Ocean Remote Sensing Group, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory:

Oceanographic satellite links: SeaWifs Home Page, ADEOS Overview, TOPEX/POSEIDON

Satellite Sea Surface Temperature images from JHU Applied Physics Lab (note, these pages use frames):

• Gulf Stream
• NE U.S. Coast
• SE/Carolinas U.S. Coast
• Non operational satellites NOAA-15, NOAA-16, NOAA-17 are unsupported