Imaging · collection · 2020
MODIS Terra Level 3 SST Thermal IR Daily 4km Nighttime V2019.0
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.5067/modst-1d4n9
Day and night spatially gridded (L3) global NASA skin sea surface temperature (SST) products from the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) onboard the Terra satellite.
Description
Average daily, weekly (8 day), monthly and annual skin SST products are available at both 4.63 and 9.26 km spatial resolution. Terra was launched by NASA on December 18, 1999, into a sun synchronous, polar orbit with a daylight descending node at 10:30 am, to study the global dynamics of the Earth atmosphere, land and oceans.
The MODIS captures data in 36 spectral bands at a variety of spatial resolutions. Two SST products can be present in these files. The first is a skin SST produced for both day and night observations, derived from the long wave IR 11 and 12 micron wavelength channels, using a modified nonlinear SST algorithm intended to provide continuity with SST derived from heritage and current NASA sensors.
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At night, a second SST product is produced using the mid-infrared 3.95 and 4.05 micron channels which are unique to MODIS; the SST derived from these measurements is identified as SST4. The SST4 product has lower uncertainty, but due to sun glint can only be produced at night. To generate the L3 products the L2 pixels are binned into an integerized sinusoidal area grid (ISEAG) and mapped into an equidistant cylindrical (also known as Platte Carre) projection.
Additional projection detailed can be found at oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/format/ The NASA MODIS L3 SST data products are generated by the NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group (OBPG) Peter Minnett and his team at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) are responsible for sea surface temperature algorithm development, error statistics and quality flagging. JPL acquires and distributes MODIS ocean L3 SST data from the OBPG as the official Physical Oceanography Data Archive (PO.DAAC) for SST.
The R2019 superseded the previous v2014.1 datasets which can be found at doi.org/10.5067/MODST-1D4N4
Links
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- 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
- OBPG SST Reprocessing v2019.0 summary oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/reprocessing/r2019/sst ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Resource oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/atbd ↗
Additional resource to help better understand the algorithm(s) used in producing and/or calibrating/validating the dataset
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- Data Use and Citation Guidelines podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/CitingPODAAC ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Generic Data Readers github.com/podaac/data-readers ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- describes all the level 3 MODIS data archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/modis/open/L3/docs/modis_sst.html ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Ocean Biology Processing Group homepage oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Original Metadata cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2036882319-POCLOUD.iso19115 ↗
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- search.earthdata.nasa.gov /search/granules?p=C2036882319-POCLOUD ↗
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- JPEG podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/Podaac/thumbnails/MODIS_TERRA_L3_SST_THERMAL_DAILY_4KM_NIGHTTI… ↗
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- Resource harmony.earthdata.nasa.gov ↗
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- Resource earthdata.nasa.gov/data/tools/worldview ↗
The Worldview tool from NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) provides the capability to interactively browse and visualize satellite imagery layers and then download the
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- cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov /virtual-directory/collections/C2036882319-POCLOUD ↗
Browse and download granules over HTTPS using the virtual directories
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- 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
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- Resource soto.podaac.earthdatacloud.nasa.gov/?l=MODIS_Terra_L3_SST_Thermal_4km_Night_Daily%2CBlueMarble_Sha… ↗
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Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/modis-terra-level-3-sst-thermal-ir-daily-4km-nighttime… ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
- DOI doi.org/10.5067/modst-1d4n9 ↗
DOI / persistent id · from NASA CMR
Catalogue records · 3
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2036882319-POCLOUD.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=b495c0e9-63fd-4ead-9618-f73119522… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2036882319-POCLOUD.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Earth Observing System, Terra (AM-1) · Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer · Sea Surface Temperature
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics
- Inferred from text
- Imaging 75%
Provenance · 2 source records, 18 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C2036882319-POCLOUD | 10 d ago | JSON v1 |
| NASA Data Portal | b495c0e9-63fd-4ead-9618-f731195223a8 | 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[instrument].gcmd_instrument:modis | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@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:imaging | enrichment · NASA CMR | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:terra | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@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 · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |