The SNPP spacecraft entered a non-nominal state at ~16:24:49 UTC on July 26, 2022, after which all SMD and telemetry data was inaccessible. While the root cause continues to be investigated, subsequent contacts have confirmed the spacecraft and all instruments are currently in a safe mode state. Engineering will continue to restore all instruments and science data to an operational state once a plan forward has been determined. All missed data will not be recoverable. The NOAA-20 spacecraft will continue to provide all the primary JPSS science data needs.

Dr. Andrea VanderWoude, the NOAA CoastWatch Great Lakes Node Manager, will be one of the co-instructors for the upcoming AMS Joint Satellite Lake Data and Products Short Course, August 7, 2022, This is a hybrid event with both in-person and remote attendance available. 

Most data streams and services have been restored.  S-3A/B Level-2 OLCI data are still undergoing consolidation.  Broken links may appear for retrospecitve data during this transition.  Contact coastwatch.info@noaa.gov if you need assistance in locating data. 

The NOAA STAR (Center for Satellite Applications and Research) Water Surface Conditions/Sea Surface RoughnessTeam has developed an arctic normalized radar cross section (NRCS) daily composite from multiple spacecraft synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instruments at 1km resolution. 

Are you interested in using oceanographic satellite data in your work but don't know where to start? The NOAA CoastWatch program offers in-person and online courses, where participants learn about environmental satellite data and how to easily obtain it. Participants also gain hands-on experience working with the data that may help their projects and application. A major goal of the course is to provide scientists who are not regular users of satellite data with the knowledge and tools they need to incorporate satellite data into their research and management projects.

Check out our new brochure to learn more about NOAA CoastWatch and see some examples of use cases for ocean satellite data.

RIVA Solutions, Inc. is seeking to bring in a new member to the join the NOAA CoastWatch https://coastwatch.noaa.gov Central Operations team based in College Park, MD.
Position Title: Sr. Scientific Programmer

Are you interested in using oceanographic satellite data in your work but don't know where to start? The NOAA CoastWatch program offers in-person and online courses, where participants learn about environmental satellite data and how to easily obtain it. Participants also gain hands-on experience working with the data that may help their projects and application. A major goal of the course is to provide scientists who are not regular users of satellite data with the knowledge and tools they need to incorporate satellite data into their research and management projects.

NOAA CoastWatch will no longer provide sea surface temperature (SST) or wind products from Metop-A.  CoastWatch has added Metop-C sea surface temperature and vector winds data to its portfolio as a replacement for these products. 

Per the EUMETSAT announcement:

The Metop-A satellite, launched on 19 October 2006, has massively exceeded its design lifetime of five years. However, it is now time for it to retire.

Services provided by the AOML hosted Atlantic OceanWatch / Gulf of Mexico-Caribbean node will be offline for planned maintenance beginning 1500HRS EDT 17 SEP2021 until mid-day 19SEP2021.  Data processing may lag when services are restored.

On Tuesday Aug 24 between 09:00-11:00 EDT STAR IT Team will be upgrading the public STAR FTP server ftp://ftp.star.nesdis.noaa.gov and www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/thredds/ (along with other STAR controlled virtual hosts/thredds/ )

DMSP F-15 end of mission occurred Aug 9, 2021 around 0424 EDT (0824Z) as controllers and engineering executed the end-of-life (EOL) CP.  Around 0054 EDT (0454Z) the spacecraft had lost earth lock and that the end of the mission was imminent.  

All products derived from SSMI data are discontinued.

Original Message:  https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/messages/2021/MSG221180402.html

Topic: Termination of DMSP F-15 (SSMI-9) Products

The NESDIS Product Distribution and Access (PDA) system will undergo planned failover that will affect the timeliness of some CoastWatch products.  Products from GOES, S-NPP, NOAA-20, and MetOp spacecraft will be affected (sea surface temperature, winds, sea level anomaly, ocean color: chlorophyll, Kd490).  

Topic: Planned PDA Partial Failover to CBU and Full Outage of PDA OPS at NSOF 

Date/Time Issued:  June 24, 2021 1756Z

New in Version 3.6.1 b283  ==> Get it here

(Replaces version 3.6.0 (b160))

Updates:

Maintenance is planned for infrastructure housing NOAA CoastWatch processing.  Although much of the processing has redundancy, there is a possibility of a data outage.  An outage may occur beginning 20 February 2021.  Affected product processing may not be restored until 22 February 2021.  Return-to-service times will vary based on the assurance level associated with the affected product.  

Products impacted:  All [SST, Ocean Color, Altimetry, SAR, etc]

Services impacted:  All  [Websites, THREDDS, ERDDAP, FTP, CDN]

Times:  20-21 February 2021

On March 1, 2021,  legacy/heritage CoastWatch regional AVHRR and VIIRS products in HDF format will no longer be distributed by vmcwsst3 [or accessible using the 'cwdownload' utility].  [Note,  NOAA-18 and NOAA-19 products ceased production 03FEB2021]

These products will continue to be processed and available to users through the following outlets:

Processing underway and near real-time L2 data are available.

Prior notice 02DEC2020:

Level-2 ocean color products from S-NPP and NOAA-20 VIIRS are currently suspended during a system upgrade.  These products should resume within the next 48 hours.  Products that are generated from the Level-2, such as global 4 km and 750 m regional products are impacted.

EUMETSAT and NOAA are co-organizing the second International Operational Satelltie Oceanography Symposium which will build on our first gathering in June 2019 of community members involved in all levels of the observation-to-information value chain, from data providers to users, of operational satellite oceanographic data, products and applications. 

The Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (JIMAR) is currently recruiting an Analyst to work with NOAA’s CoastWatch/OceanWatch/PolarWatch Program (https://coastwatch.noaa.gov/cw/index.html) who will be based at the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center’s Ecosystem Sciences Division in Honolulu, HI.  The Analyst will manage the

Navigation errors in the NOAA-18/-19 AVHRR (legacy) CoastWatch SST product have been resolved.  Data are now within the nominal 2 pixel registration.

See prior news item for more information on the observed issue.

Announcing the planned discontinuation of NOAA-18 and NOAA-19 AVHRR SST products from NOAA CoastWatch:

Due to the availability of higher quality data,  our operational partners will be discontinuing the processing of regional sea surface temperature products from AVHRR aboard NOAA-18 and NOAA-19 in December, 2020.  Products will continue to be provided from Metop-A and  Metop-B AVHRR instruments and S-NPP and NOAA-20 VIIRS instruments. 

Products are delayed due to processing system issues.

***Update:  The navigational errors in the AVHRR products have been resolved.  Data should appear within the nominal 2 pixel accuracy.  Please be advised,  the NOAA-18 and NOAA-19 products will be discontinued in December 2020.

Prior post:

The global, multi-sensor, near real time DINEOF gap-filled, chlorophyll has been relased,  View and access data through the Data Portal or directly download data from the services linked from the satellite data product page under the "data access" tab.

Processing systems are undergoing maintenance 18-22 MAY 2020.  This may adversely impact product processing and data distribution.  It is anticipated delays will not exceed 72 hours and will vary by product.  All products may be affected.  

Ocean Surface Vector Winds from ASCAT on Metop A (2) and Metop B (1) are now available on THREDDS server

The East Coast Node website is running again.  Visit the site at https://eastcoast.coastwatch.noaa.gov.

The next CoastWatch satellite data training course is 7 to 9 April 2020 in Anchorage, AK at the National Parks Building, taught by the West Coast Node and PolarWatch.  Go here for more information about the course itself, FAQ's as well as travel logistics. Registration is now open.

East Coast Node has announced details for their 3-day training course 23-25 June in Charleston, SC

Are you interested in using oceanographic satellite data in your work but don't know where to start? The NOAA CoastWatch East Coast Regional Node will offer a three-day course, June 23-25, 2020, at the Hollings Marine Laboratory in Charleston, SC, where participants will learn about environmental satellite data and how to easily obtain it. Participants also gain hands on experience working with the data of interest to them.

CoastWatch has a service outage of the near real time ACSPO Global SST from MODIS Aqua and Terra.  We are investigating the problem and will work to restore service as soon as possible.  If you need an alternative for your polar-orbiting, SST needs, try ACSPO VIIRS SST.

After more than 11 years in orbit and well beyond its three- to five-year mission baseline, the Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM) on Jason-2 will permanently cease acquisition of scientific data at 06:48 UTC on 1 October 2019 due to aging-related issues onboard the spacecraft.  Approximately three hours later, the final pass 147 for science cycle 644 will be produced as an OGDR product and disseminated to operational users.  IGDR production will cease about 2.5 days later, GDR production approximately 2 months later.

New Satellite Data Products have been added to the CoastWatch Website:

Three satellite training courses taught by NOAA CoastWatch Nodes are open for sign up:

The 1st Operational Satellite Oceanography (OSO) Symposium,  a joint meeting co-organized  by EUMETSAT and 

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.

Ocean Color Product and Processing Update:

As of 13MAR2019,  CoastWatch distribution of data and products has been sporadic due to numerous issues. The following products are currently unavailable:

• S-NPP VIIRS Ocean Color Level-2 and Level-3 Regional/Sector/Global  products 
• Sentinel-3A OLCI Ocean Color Level-3 Regional and Global products
• SAR Wind products.
• S-NPP VIIRS and Aqua MODIS True Color products

The following products were delayed:

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. 

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

Click here for more information: CoastWatch Utilities

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 NOTICE: Near Real Time VIIRS SNPP Ocean Color products are severely degraded from 16 February 2018 until further notice.

Dear Users,

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.

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 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.