WOCE Satellite Sea Surface Temperature Data

WOCE Sea Surface Temperature Data Version 3.0.

At the very heart of WOCE were the global measurements made by satellites. The primary interest for WOCE lay with satellite altimetry and its associated geophysical variables of sea level variability and wave height. There were 3 altimeters operating during WOCE, the French and USA satellite TOPEX/POSEIDON (since August 1992), and the European Space Agency satellites ERS-1 (since late 1991) and ERS-2 (since April 1995). In addition the US GEOSAT mission operated just prior to the WOCE field programme. Also of interest are wind speed from scatterometers (the NASA scatterometer NSCAT, and ERS-1 and ERS-2), sea surface temperature (the USA AVHRR or Advance Very High Resolution Radiometer) and water vapour content (TOPEX/POSEIDON and the US Special Sensor Microwave Imager or SSMI).
Satellite data are managed by a variety of agencies and data centres, so there are no WOCE satellite DACs. However, the agencies involved have provided for WOCE all the functions of WOCE satellite DACs and have contributed to Version 3.0 of the WOCE Global data set.

From Physical Oceanography DAAC at JPL/NASA:

SST data at .5 and 1 degree resolution over 5 days from 1990 through 2001. The data were derived from the 5-channel Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) instrument on board the NOAA -7, -9, -11 and -14 polar orbiting satellites, using the 'NOAA/NASA Pathfinder SST' algorithms

Variables	Sea Surface Temperature (°C)
Zonal	Global by varies
Meridional	Global by varies
Vertical
Temporal	Jan 1990 to Dec 2001 by varies
Static?	no
Volume
Server	public:
Source	http://woce.nodc.noaa.gov/wdiu/diu_summaries/sat/index.htm
Acquired	Aug 28, 2003
APDRC contact	Zuojun Yu
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