VIIRS (SNPP) Level 3

  1. Satellite Data Products
  2. Sea Surface Temperature
  3. NOAA Heritage
  4. VIIRS (SNPP) Level 3
Updated: February 11, 2021
Data are available through the following servers:
Service Resource Locator
HTTP

http://coastwatch.noaa.gov/cw_html/NearRealTimeSearch.html?region=ALL&product=sst&sensor=VIIRS&daysback=1
 

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/data/socd3/coastwatch/products/legacy_sst/viirs/ [listing]
FTP ftp://ftpcoastwatch.noaa.gov/pub/socd1/coastwatch/products/viirs/L3/

[Please acknowledge "NOAA CoastWatch/OceanWatch" when you use data from our site and cite the particular dataset DOI as appropriate.]

Mapped, Level 3 for "heritage" CoastWatch regions.

KeyDescription
Platform/Sensor

S-NPP VIIRS
Measurement/Products

Measurement Oceans > Sea Surface Temperature > Sub-skin SST
DOI

n/a
Short Name

VIIRS_L3
Sample Filename

2016_300_0530_npp_er.hdf [YYYY_JJJ_HHMM_PPP_RR.[png, tif, hdf]
Dataset Type

n/a
Processing Level

    L3
Spatial Coverage

CW Regions
Temporal Coverage

Near real-time + 3 days
Latency

Near real-time
Resolution

750m @ Nadir; ~1.7km at swath edge
Projection

Mercator / WGS84
Swath Width

~3060km
Sample Frequency

n/a
Temporal Repeat

Orbital 16 days
Orbital Period

101 Minutes
Orbit

Sun-synchronous, altitude 824km, inclination 98.74
Data Provider

Creator: NOAA STAR
Release Place: College Park, MD, USA
Formats

PNG, TIFF, HDF
Keywords

NOAA, AVHRR, ACSPO, sea surface temperature, SST, CoastWatch