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NOAA CoastWatch THREDDS and FTP servers will undergo maintenance on Tuesday May 28, 2019 at 1100 EDT (1500UTC) [changed from 0800 EDT (1200 UTC)]. Services and data in NetCDF/HDF formats may be unavailable for up to 2 hours. See the News section on the CoastWatch website for updates regarding this planned maintenance event. The following URLs will be affected:
The 1st Operational Satellite Oceanography (OSO) Symposium, a joint meeting co-organized by EUMETSAT and
The night-time Blended SST product is currently distributed in two NetCDF variants. The legacy NetCDF Blended product (generated from HDF) will be discontinued in July 2019. These products have the following naming convention and a filesize of ~106MB:
sst_geo-polar-blended_night_5km_YYYYJJJ.nc
[where YYYY=Year, and JJJ=Day of Year]
A new release of the CoastWatch software is available. Changes include using Java OpenSDK11.0 and performance improvements to cwregister, cwmath, and cwcomposite. Accuracy improvements were made to mapping data with terrain-corrected locations to reduce mapping errors over land. See the CoastWatch Utilities page for more details and access to the new release.
The operational production of the Global Area Coverage (GAC; 4km/nadir) ACSPO SST data from AVHRR instruments aboard NOAA-18/19, and Metop-A/B will be discontinued on or after June 2, 2019. From that point on, ACSPO SSTs will continue to be available from three Full Resolution Area Coverage (FRAC; ~1km/nadir) mid-morning ("AM") Metop-A, -B and -C, and from two VIIRSs (~750m/nadir) onboard afternoon ("PM") NPP and NOAA-20. ACSPO SST from all historical AVHRR/2 and /3 GAC records will only be available in a reprocessing mode, as a part of ACSPO AVHRR GAC Reanalysis ("RAN") project.
Ocean Color near real-time is restored and includes the release of VIIRS NOAA-20. Coming in April: A daily global blended VIIRS (SNPP plus NOAA-20) for chlorophyll and downwelling attenuation coefficient (Kd(490)).
As of 13MAR2019, CoastWatch distribution of data and products has been sporadic due to numerous issues. The following products are currently unavailable:
The following products were delayed:
The Operational Satellite Oceanography (OSO) Training Day on Monday, 17 June 2019, in association with the OSO Symposium in Washington DC area will cover 3 topics and will allot time for individual guidance:
1) Ocean satellite products available
2) Data discovery, access and tools
3) Example applications
4) Time for individual guidance or assistance.
Participants are encourage to bring their own laptops. No terminals will be provided.
As of 09MAR2019, CoastWatch distribution of S-NPP VIIRS Ocean Color Level-2/-3 data and products has been sporadic. Copernicus mission data distribution was delayed Mar 09 to March 11 2019. Level-3 SST (legacy HDF reginal products) were delayed and being backfilled (Note: https://cw2.espc.nesdis.noaa.gov/data/ hold legacy SST and win
The NOAA CoastWatch Data Portal combines multiple search tools into a single map client. This initial release integrates the L1/L2 Spatial/Time Search and visualization of global mapped data from our THREDDS service.
Open access to the enterprise OceanWatch Monitor (OM) online tool now available (v1.0).
Advanced Clear - Sky Processor for Oceans (ACSPO) Product Update
The Advanced Clear-Sky Processor for Oceans (ACSPO) for VIIRS instruments will be promoted from version 2.41 to version 2.60 on or about October 18, 2018.
New in version 2.60
The following NOAA CoastWatch data servers will be removed from service on or about December 15, 2018:
A third day has been added to the agenda of the First International Operational Satellite Oceanography Symposium, now18-20 June 2019 in College Park, MD, convenient to Washington DC [revised flyer]. A training session will be included.
FIRST INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONAL SATELLITE OCEANOGRAPHY SYMPOSIUM
18 to 20 June 2019 Washington, DC Area, NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction, College Park, MD, USA
Data Quality UPDATE: Near Real Time VIIRS SNPP Ocean Color products quality issue resolved with data beginning March 2, 2018.
Dear Users,
The calibration issue affecting the NOAA/IDPS Sensor Data Record (SDR, i.e., L1B) for VIIRS SNPP and the Near Real Time Ocean Color Environmental Data Record (EDR) has been resolved. Data processed as of March 2, 2018 and onward meet quality standards. Thank you for using NOAA CoastWatch/OceanWatch data.
Data Quality NOTICE: Near Real Time VIIRS SNPP Ocean Color products are severely degraded from 16 February 2018 until further notice.
Dear Users,
The S-NPP VIIRS ocean color products produced within NOAA STAR are undergoing a processing change (products produced in near real-time operationally within OSPO will remain unchanged). As a result, beginning February 20, 2018 the following changes are expected:
Users of geo-SST products,
This notice is to inform you and your group that certain legacy geo-SST products will be discontinued or severely impacted with the transition of GOES-13 to GOES-16 on or about November 20, 2017.
The legacy GOES-13 SST products, (gridded, in binary format) were not planned for continuation for GOES-16.
Dear CoastWatch VIIRS Ocean Color User,
Good news! The NOAA VIIRS Science Quality Ocean Color Level 2 Environmental Data Record products have been improved. Currently, CoastWatch is replacing the entire mission-long dataset with the new dataset from MSL12 v1.21 reprocessing. The new dataset will be available August 9,2017. Please check back soon to access full mission, MLS12 v1.21 VIIRS ocean color products.
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NOAA CoastWatch/OceanWatch is now distributing Sentinel-3 OLCI Level-2 and Level-3 ocean color datasets. Data is provided courtesy of EUMETSAT as part of the Copernicus Program. NOAA CoastWatch will be increasing product coverage over the next month.
For more information, please refer to our OLCI near real-time product page.
NOAA CoastWatch/OceanWatch is now distributing daily Level-3 sea level anomaly datasets produced by the NOAA Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry. The datasets are produced globally with near-real time data from a constellation of radar altimeter missions.
Click here for more information: https://coastwatch.noaa.gov/cw_html/SSH_SeaLevelAnomaly.html
NOAA CoastWatch/OceanWatch is currently distributing near-real time Level-1B full resolution global ocean data from OLCI-Sentinel-3A Copernicus mission in support of operational oceanography.
True color image produced today (15 February 2017) by NOAACoastWatch/OceanWatch from OLCI-Sentinel-3A data.
Click here for more information: VIIRS Science Quality L2
CoastWatch Utilities 3.4.1 is now available, please see latest update.
