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Filenames for NOAA CoastWatch GOES sea surface temperature products contain a limited amount of information about the file. A typical filename:
2000_277_32E.gif
YYYY_DDD_PTR.ext
Where:
YYYY: Year data was captured
DDD: Day of Year (277 in year 2000 is October 3)
P: Product Type
T: Time code for hour of the most recent product
R: Region
ext: File type
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| P
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3 -- Composite of 3, hourly images
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| T
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Time Codes:
- 0 -- 00:00 - 03:00
- 1 -- 03:00 - 06:00
- 2 -- 06:00 - 09:00
- 3 -- 09:00 - 12:00
- 4 -- 12:00 - 15:00
- 5 -- 15:00 - 18:00
- 6 -- 18:00 - 21:00
- 7 -- 21:00 - 24:00 (image from 22, 23, and 24 data)
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| region
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CoastWatch Region (see table at right)
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| ext
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none: Binary Data (8-bit)
TIF: GeoTiff
GIF: Graphics Interchange Format
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CW GOES-SST Regions
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East Coast
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E
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West Coast
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W
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Alaska
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A
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Caribbean
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C
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South US
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S
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Great Lakes
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L
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