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Sea Surface Temperature

Geo-Polar Blended SST

The Geo-Polar Blended Sea Surface Temperature (GPB) Analysis is a level-4 high resolution ~5 km (0.05°) global SST product suite that includes three daily files: night-only SST, day-night combined SST, and diurnally corrected day-night combined SST files.

LEO & GOES | Resolution: 5km | Frequency: Daily

SST Anomaly Charts

The global 5km Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly product shows the variance between today's SST and the long-term average. It employs a scale ranging from -5 to +5 °C. Positive values indicate warmer-than-average temperatures, while negative values signify cooler-than-average conditions.


LEO & GOES | Resolution: 5km | Frequency: Daily

SST Contour Charts

Contour charts visually represent gridded Sea Surface Temperature (SST) products. These charts display SST values using contour lines and can depict both global and regional data with various grid spacing.

LEO & GOES | Resolution: 5km | Frequency: Daily

NOAA Advanced Clear-Sky Processor for Ocean (ACSPO) Level-3S LEO SSTs

Operational NOAA Advanced Clear-Sky Processor for Ocean (ACSPO) Level-3 Super-collated (L3S) SSTs for Low Earth Orbit satellites are 0.02° resolution SSTs processed and distributed through NOAA operations. The LEO L3S SST products are a result of combining or collating Level-3 uncollated data from VIIRS and AVHRR sensors.


LEO (SNPP & JPSS) | Resolution: 0.02km | Frequency: Twice Daily

ACSPO VIIRS Sea Surface Temperature

NOAA Enterprise VIIRS Advanced Clear-Sky Processor for Oceans (ACSPO) Sea Surface Temperature (SST) products are produced operationally in the NESDIS Common Cloud Framework (NCCF) system and made available via the OSPO Product Distribution and Access (PDA) system.

LEO (SNPP & JPSS) | Resolution: 0.02km | Frequency: Daily

SST Swaths

The AVHRR-and-VIIRS CoastWatch SST products provide users with operational satellite data processed using TeraScan software and CoastWatch utilities.

LEO | Frequency: Daily

AMSR-2 SST Data

Satellite Sea Surface Temperature from AMSR-2 (Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2) instrument aboard the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Global Change Observations Mission for Water (GCOM-W). GCOM-W1 AMSR2 Algorithm Software Package (GAASP).

GCOM-W (LEO) | Resolution: 10km | Frequency: Twice Daily