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Satellite Data Access by Datasets
Atmospheric Data
| Dataset | Description | Spatial Information | Temporal Information | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ISCCP Cloud Data | The International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) provides global cloud information at many resolutions (10 to 110 km) and time scales (3 hourly to monthly) derived from geostationary and polar orbiting satellite instruments. | Global; varying resolution | 1983–2009 | Access Information |
| Monthly and pentad averaged SSMI and SSMIS products include precipitation, cloud liquid water, total precipitable water, snow cover, and sea ice extent. These products are useful for evaluating the mean climate state, its interannual and seasonal variations, and the detection of anomalies associated with large-scale (e.g., ENSO, Arctic Oscillation) and regional climatic variations. A time series of the entire SSMI and SSMIS archive includes data from July 1987 to the present. | Global; 1 and 2.5 deg | Monthly and pentad; 1987–present | ||
| GOES Aerosol Smoke Products | Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) data using GOES visible channel imagery. Available every half hour on a 4 km x 4 km grid over continental United States for GOES-East and GOES-West. AOD has been shown to be a good proxy for pollution monitoring. | 4 km, CONUS | half-hourly, 06/2006–present | HAS |
| Automated Smoke Detection and Tracking Algoithm | The Automated Smoke Detection and Tracking Algorithm (ASDTA) provides observational support for verification of NOAA / NWS HYSPLIT smoke (PM2.5) forecasts. ASDTA uses a source apportionment technique by fusing GOES observations of fire hot spots and GASP-East AOD maps. ASDTA provides wind speed and direction associated with smoke plumes, however, the vertical location of the plumes is not known. | 4 km, CONUS | weekly, May 2005–present | HAS |
Oceanic Data
The following table is not an exhaustive list of satellite-based oceanic data. Other ocean products are available from the National Oceanographic Data Center and NOAA's Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System (CLASS).
| Dataset | Description | Spatial Information | Temporal Information | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daily OISST | Two new high-resolution sea surface temperature (SST) analysis products have been developed using optimum interpolation (OI). The analyses have a spatial grid resolution of 0.25° and temporal resolution of 1 day. One product uses Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) infrared satellite SST data. The other uses AVHRR and Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR) on the NASA Earth Observing System satellite SST data. | Global; 0.25 degrees | Daily; 1981–present | HTTPS THREDDS |
| Blended Sea Winds | Blended Sea Winds contains globally gridded, high-resolution ocean surface vector winds and wind stresses. The wind directions came from two sources depending on the products: for the research products, the source is the NCEP Reanalysis 2 (NRA-2), and for near-real-time products, the source is the ECMWF NWP. The wind directions were interpolated onto the blended speed grids. | Global oceans; 0.25 degrees | 6 hourly; 1995–2011 | |
| Validation Datasets - SURFA | The WCRP Surface Flux Analysis (SURFA) initiative is to facilitate the evaluation of forecast skills from NWP and climate models as well as products from reanalysis and remotely sensed surface flux variables against high-quality in situ reference data. The datasets here include output from NWP model forecasts and reanalysis as well as in situ station observations from January 2008 onward. | Global; 0.25 degrees | 2008–present | HTTPS |
In situ marine data from NCEI are also available.
Other Data
| Dataset | Description | Spatial Information | Temporal Information | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HURSAT | Gridded brightness temperatures centered on tropical cyclones from around the globe. Geostationary (HURSAT-B1) data, polar orbiting data (HURSAT-AVHRR), and SSMI (HURSAT-MW) are available. Latest release is version v05. | Global; varying resolutions | 3 hourly; 1979–2009 | FTP:AVHRR FTP:B1 FTP:SSMI |
| IBTrACS | The International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS) provides tropical cyclone best track data in a centralized location to aid our understanding of the distribution, frequency, and intensity of tropical cyclones worldwide. | Global | 6 hourly; 1851–2010 | FTP |
| Vegetation Whole Globe Products | The Vegetation Whole Globe Products are operationally generated by NESDIS based on weekly Global Vegetation Indices. The two primary products are Global Vegetation Health (GVH) and Green Vegetation Fraction (GVF) products. The secondary products are drought monitoring indices including weekly Vegetation Condition Index (VCI), Temperature Condition Index (TCI), and Vegetation-Temperature Index (VTI) or the so-called Vegetation Health (VH) Index. | 4 km, Global | Weekly composites, July 2009–present | HAS |
| Miscellaneous | Additional NESDIS operational products are available via the HDSS Access System. | N/A | N/A |
