Imaging · collection · 2026
GHRSST NOAA/STAR GOES-19 ABI L2P America Region SST v3.0 dataset
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.5067/ghg19-2p300
Description
The GOES-19 Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Level 2 Preprocessed (L2P) Sea Surface Temperature (SST) dataset, produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is used to observe sea surface temperature using satellite remote sensing measurements from the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) aboard the GOES-19 geostationary satellite. Originally launched as GOES-U on 25 June 2024 and renamed GOES-19 upon reaching geostationary orbit, the satellite operates at an altitude of approximately 35,800 km and provides continuous observations across the Full Disk domain spanning approximately 15°W–135°W and 60°S–60°N. The ABI instrument is a 16-band multispectral imager that provides enhanced SST retrieval capability through improved radiometric calibration, image navigation, co-registration accuracy, spectral fidelity, and advanced preprocessing.
SST retrievals are natively provided every 10 minutes at approximately 2 km spatial resolution at nadir, degrading toward the edge of the viewing domain. This Level 2 Preprocessed SST product contains hourly collated sea surface temperature retrievals generated from 10-minute Full Disk ABI observations using the NOAA Advanced Clear-Sky Processor for Ocean (ACSPO) system with a Non-Linear Sea Surface Temperature (NLSST) algorithm.
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In addition to SST measurements, the dataset includes SST frontal positions and gradient magnitudes. Per-pixel Sensor-Specific Error Statistics (SSES) bias and standard deviation layers are also provided. The dataset is distributed as 24 hourly granules per day in netCDF4 format compliant with the GHRSST Data Specification Version 2 (GDS2), with an approximate daily volume of 0.6 GB.
Users should note that geolocation coordinates are not stored within individual granules and must be obtained separately through companion navigation files or software utilities. A companion Level 3 Collated (L3C) gridded SST product at 0.02° spatial resolution is also available for users requiring reduced data volume and regularly gridded SST fields.
Links
Get the data
- Resource opendap.earthdata.nasa.gov ↗
This dataset can be accessed with the Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol (OPeNDAP) API framework. This service enables variable and dimensional subsetting. The URL redirects to a p
metadata API · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/ghrsst/open/docs/GDS20r5.pdf ↗
Documentation on the GDS version 2 format specification
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Data Use and Citation Guidelines podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/CitingPODAAC ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- SST Quality Monitor 2.1 Webpage star.nesdis.noaa.gov/sod/sst/squam ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Python script for L2 geolocation archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/ghrsst/open/data/GDS2/L2P/GOES19/NOAA/… ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- ATBD Documentation coastwatch.noaa.gov/pub/socd2/coastwatch/sst/documents/ACSPO_SST_ATBD_v2p00.pdf ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- in situ SST Quality Monitor v2.10 Webpage star.nesdis.noaa.gov/sod/sst/iquam ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Home Page of the GHRSST Project ghrsst.org ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- L2 geolocation file archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/ghrsst/open/data/GDS2/L2P/GOES19/NOAA/… ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Original Metadata cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C4155442462-POCLOUD.iso19115 ↗
download · from data nasa gov
- cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov /virtual-directory/collections/C4155442462-POCLOUD ↗
Browse and download granules over HTTPS using the virtual directories
download · from NASA CMR
- search.earthdata.nasa.gov /search/granules?p=C4155442462-POCLOUD ↗
Browse granule search results in Earthdata Search
download · from NASA CMR
- github.com /podaac/data-subscriber ↗
This dataset can be downloaded using the podaac-data-subscriber (the recommended tool for bulk downloading PO.DAAC data). It is a Python package for downloading one or many files using the command lin
download · from NASA CMR
- JPEG podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/Podaac/thumbnails/ABI_G16-STAR-L2P-v2.70.jpg ↗
download · preview image · from data nasa gov, NASA CMR
Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/ghrsst-noaa-star-goes-19-abi-l2p-america-region-sst-v3… ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
- DOI doi.org/10.5067/ghg19-2p300 ↗
DOI / persistent id · from NASA CMR
Catalogue records · 3
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C4155442462-POCLOUD.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=1a319995-5916-4875-8cd5-19ad6320d… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C4155442462-POCLOUD.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 19 · Sea Surface Temperature
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics
- Inferred from text
- Image 75% · Satellite remote sensing 75%
Provenance · 2 source records, 18 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C4155442462-POCLOUD | 10 d ago | JSON v1 |
| NASA Data Portal | 1a319995-5916-4875-8cd5-19ad6320d86f | 7 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:physics | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/oceans/ocean-temperature/sea-surface-temperature | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:image | enrichment · NASA CMR | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:remote-sensing | enrichment · NASA CMR | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:goes-19 | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| license_text | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| updated_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |