MetOp

Description

Meteorological Operational satellite - A / B / C

Platform Type
Low Earth Orbit Satellite (LEO)
Instruments
Organizations
ESA
EUMETSAT
Orbital Altitude
827 km
Equatorial Crossing Times
07:50 desc

Experimental Eddy Products

Product Families
Ocean Currents
Sea Surface Height
Sea Surface Salinity
Sea Surface Temperature
Summary

The sea surface height team in NOAA’s Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry produces two experimental mesoscale eddy products:

  • Multiparameter Eddy Significance Index (MESI)
  • MUltiparameter NRT System for Tracking Eddies Retroactively (MUNSTER)

NOAA NCEI Blended Seawinds (NBS v2)

Product Families
Sea Surface Winds
Summary

The NOAA NCEI Blended Seawinds (NBS) version 2.0 dataset synthesizes observations from multiple satellites (up to seven satellites since June 2002) to create gridded wind speeds (10m, neutral). This is an updated version of the existing NOAA NBS v1.0, which is a global gridded 0.25° and 6-hourly sea surface winds product that has wide applications in marine transportation, marine ecosystem and fisheries, offshore winds, weather and ocean forecasts, and other areas. 

Oceanic Heat Content, Mixed Layer Depth and Depths of 20°C and 26°C Isotherms

Product Families
Ocean Heat Content
Summary

Oceanic Heat Content (OHC) is the measure of the integrated vertical temperature from the sea surface to the depth of the 26°C isotherm and computed from the altimeter-derived isotherm depths in the upper ocean relative to 20°C.  Global 0.25 degree grids are generated daily for OHC, mixed layer depth and depths of 20°C and 26°C isotherms for 3 ocean basins:  North Atlantic, North Pacific and South Pacific 

Vector Winds ASCAT Metop-A/B/C

Product Families
Sea Surface Winds
Summary

Ocean Surface Vector Winds (OSVW; magnitude and direction) from the Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) on Metop-A, Metop-B, and Metop-C.  Metop-A was decommissioned November 15, 2021.

AVHRR (MetOp-1/2) Level 2/3

Product Families
Sea Surface Temperature
Summary

NOAA CoastWatch / OceanWatch / PolarWatch produces Level 2/3 sea surface temperature datasets using AVHRR sensors aboard the Metop 1/2 satellites. 

NOAA Geo-Polar Blended Global Sea Surface Temperature Analysis (Level 4)

Product Families
Sea Surface Temperature
Summary

The NOAA geo-polar blended SST is a daily 0.05° (~5km) global high resolution satellite-based sea surface temperature (SST) Level-4 analyses generated on an operational basis. This analysis combines SST data from US, Japanese and European geostationary infrared imagers, and low-earth orbiting infrared (U.S. and European) SST data, into a single high-resolution 5-km product.  The three flavors of blended SST products are night only; day/night, and diurnal warming. 

ACSPO Global SST from AVHRR FRAC

Product Families
Sea Surface Temperature
Summary

The AVHRR FRAC SST data are produced from AVHRR/3s onboard Metop-A, -B and -C satellites using the NOAA Advanced Clear-Sky Processor for Ocean (ACSPO) v2.80 enterprise system, described in (Ignatov et al., 2016). Currently, near-real time (NRT) L2P and  0.02° L3U (gridded uncollated) data for Metop-A, -B and -C is produced at STAR (with ~2 to 6hrs latency). The data are being archived at PO.DAAC, and also available at this CoastWatch page as a 2 weeks rotated buffer. Metop-A mission officially ended at 2021-11-15 and the production of the ACSPO SST for the Metop-A ended at 2021-11-14 due to data degradation on 2021-11-15. 

NOAA CoastWatch co-gridded VIIRS SST from ACSPO

Product Families
Sea Surface Temperature
Summary

NOAA CoastWatch co-gridded VIIRS SST products are Level 3 daily composites in compatible format and projection with other CoastWatch Level 3 sector and global products (such as CoastWatch sector VIIRS ocean color).  Twenty four CoastWatch sector files mapped to equatorial projection that cover the globe (see Description tab for sector definitions) two polar stereographic sectors in 750 m nominal, native resolution and a global, 4 km resolution, single file mapped product is also available. These CoastWatch Level 3 products are generated from ACSPO L2P SST as input.

ACSPO Global 0.02º Gridded Super-collated SST and Thermal Fronts from Low-Earth-Orbiting Platforms (L3S-LEO)

Product Families
Sea Surface Temperature
Summary

NOAA Advanced Clear-Sky Processor for Ocean (ACSPO) L3S-LEO SST is a family of multisensor gridded ("L3") 0.02º resolution super-collated ("S") products. The L3S-LEO family is organized into three lines: PM, AM and Daily. The AM and PM lines correspond to 9:30am/pm and 1:30am/pm equator crossing times, respectively. The Daily line combines PM and AM (day and night) SSTs into a single daily L3S SST that is normalized to 1:30am viewing conditions.