GHRSST Level 2P 1 m Depth Global Sea Surface Temperature version 3.0 from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite (GDS version 2)

Description

A global Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) Level 2P dataset based on retrievals from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). This sensor resides on the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi_NPP) satellite launched on 28 October 2011. VIIRS is a whiskbroom scanning radiometer which takes measurements in the cross-track direction within a field of regard of 112.56 degrees using 16 detectors and a double-sided mirror assembly. At a nominal altitude of 829 km, the swath width is 3060 km, providing full daily coverage both on the day and night side of the Earth. The VIIRS instrument is a 22-band, multi-spectral scanning radiometer that builds on the heritage of the MODIS, AVHRR and SeaWiFS sensors for sea surface temperature (SST) and ocean color. For the infrared bands for SST the effective pixel size is 750 meters at nadir and the pixel size variation across the swath is constrained to no more than 1600 meters at the edge of the swath. This L2P SST v3.0 is upgraded from the v2.0 with several significant improvements in processing algorithms, including contamination detection, cloud detection, and data format upgrades. It contains the global near daily-coverage Sea Surface Temperature at 1-meter depth with 750 m (along) x 750 m (cross) spatial resolution in swath coordinates. Each netCDF file has 768 x 3200 pixels in size, in compliance with the GHRSST Data Processing Specification (GDS) version 2 format specifications.

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21 These data are available through a variety of services via a THREDDS (Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services) Data Server (TDS). Depending on the dataset, the TDS can provide WMS, WCS, DAP, HTTP, and other data access and metadata services as well. For more information on the TDS, see http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/thredds/current/tds/. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/thredds-ocean/catalog/ghrsst/L2P/VIIRS_NPP/NAVO/catalog.html
0 journal article https://doi.org/10.3390/rs71215881
0 conference proceedings https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2053430
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2023. GCMD Keywords, Version 17. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
33 Online document https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0123222/data/0-data/user-guides/GHRSSTUserGuidev91.pdf
0 Navigate directly to the URL for data access and direct download. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/oceans/ghrsst/L2P/VIIRS_NPP/NAVO/
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 Institution web page https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/
21 Institution web page https://www.metoc.navy.mil/navo/navo.html
21 Institution web page https://www.metoc.navy.mil/navo/navo.html
0 Institution web page https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/
0 journal article https://doi.org/10.3390/rs71215881
21 VIIRS_NPP-NAVO-L2P-v2.0 https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2036881016-POCLOUD.html
0 Search for data granules belonging to this collection (a granule is the smallest aggregation of data that can be independently described and retrieved). https://data.noaa.gov/onestop/collections/granules/AWbwwQJzYJ6J3EnSGxwh
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/GHRSST-VIIRS_NPP-NAVO-L2P
0 These data are available through the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). FTP is no longer supported by most internet browsers. You may copy and paste the FTP link to the data into an FTP client (e.g., FileZilla or WinSCP). ftp://ftp-oceans.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data.nodc/ghrsst/L2P/VIIRS_NPP/NAVO/
21 Institution web page https://www.metoc.navy.mil/navo/navo.html
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2023. GCMD Keywords, Version 17. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 NOAA Central Library: Technical Report https://doi.org/10.25923/rwng-kp76
0 Institution web page https://library.noaa.gov/
33 Online document https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0123222/data/0-data/project-documents/GDS20r5.pdf
0 SST products monitored https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/sod/sst/squam/
0 online document https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274712459_VIIRS_SST_products
0 conference proceedings https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2017965
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2023. GCMD Keywords, Version 17. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2023. GCMD Keywords, Version 17. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2023. GCMD Keywords, Version 17. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
21 VIIRS_NPP-NAVO-L2P-v1.0 https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1996881807-POCLOUD.html
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2023. GCMD Keywords, Version 17. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
21 VIIRS_NPP-NAVO-L2P-v3.0 https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1996881636-POCLOUD.html
0 Search for data granules belonging to this collection (a granule is the smallest aggregation of data that can be independently described and retrieved). https://data.noaa.gov/onestop/collections/granules/AWbwwQJzYJ6J3EnSGxwh
0 Navigate directly to the URL for data access and direct download. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/oceans/ghrsst/L2P/VIIRS_NPP/NAVO/
0 These data are available through the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). FTP is no longer supported by most internet browsers. You may copy and paste the FTP link to the data into an FTP client (e.g., FileZilla or WinSCP). ftp://ftp-oceans.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data.nodc/ghrsst/L2P/VIIRS_NPP/NAVO/
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 Institution web page https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/
21 Institution web page https://www.metoc.navy.mil/navo/navo.html
21 Institution web page https://www.metoc.navy.mil/navo/navo.html
21 Institution web page https://www.metoc.navy.mil/navo/navo.html
21 Institution web page https://www.metoc.navy.mil/navo/navo.html
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 NOAA Central Library: Technical Report https://doi.org/10.25923/rwng-kp76
0 Institution web page https://library.noaa.gov/
33 Online document https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0123222/data/0-data/user-guides/GHRSSTUserGuidev91.pdf
33 Online document https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0123222/data/0-data/project-documents/GDS20r5.pdf
0 SST products monitored https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/sod/sst/squam/
0 journal article https://doi.org/10.3390/rs71215881
0 online document https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274712459_VIIRS_SST_products
0 Institution web page https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/
0 related conference proceedings https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2053430
0 related conference proceedings https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2017965
0 related journal article https://doi.org/10.3390/rs71215881
21 VIIRS_NPP-NAVO-L2P-v2.0 https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2036881016-POCLOUD.html
21 VIIRS_NPP-NAVO-L2P-v3.0 https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1996881636-POCLOUD.html
21 VIIRS_NPP-NAVO-L2P-v1.0 https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1996881807-POCLOUD.html
0 project documentation https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0123222
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/GHRSST-VIIRS_NPP-NAVO-L2P
21 These data are available through a variety of services via a THREDDS (Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services) Data Server (TDS). Depending on the dataset, the TDS can provide WMS, WCS, DAP, HTTP, and other data access and metadata services as well. For more information on the TDS, see http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/thredds/current/tds/. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/thredds-ocean/catalog/ghrsst/L2P/VIIRS_NPP/NAVO/catalog.html
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Search for data granules belonging to this collection (a granule is the smallest aggregation of data that can be independently described and retrieved). https://data.noaa.gov/onestop/collections/granules/AWbwwQJzYJ6J3EnSGxwh
0 Navigate directly to the URL for data access and direct download. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/oceans/ghrsst/L2P/VIIRS_NPP/NAVO/
0 Institution web page https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/
21 Institution web page https://www.metoc.navy.mil/navo/navo.html
21 Institution web page https://www.metoc.navy.mil/navo/navo.html
21 Institution web page https://www.metoc.navy.mil/navo/navo.html
21 Institution web page https://www.metoc.navy.mil/navo/navo.html
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 NOAA Central Library: Technical Report https://doi.org/10.25923/rwng-kp76
33 Online document https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0123222/data/0-data/user-guides/GHRSSTUserGuidev91.pdf
33 Online document https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0123222/data/0-data/project-documents/GDS20r5.pdf
0 SST products monitored https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/sod/sst/squam/
0 journal article https://doi.org/10.3390/rs71215881
0 online document https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274712459_VIIRS_SST_products
0 Institution web page https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/
0 related journal article https://doi.org/10.3390/rs71215881
21 VIIRS_NPP-NAVO-L2P-v2.0 https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2036881016-POCLOUD.html
21 VIIRS_NPP-NAVO-L2P-v3.0 https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1996881636-POCLOUD.html
21 VIIRS_NPP-NAVO-L2P-v1.0 https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1996881807-POCLOUD.html
0 project documentation https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0123222
0 These data are available through the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). FTP is no longer supported by most internet browsers. You may copy and paste the FTP link to the data into an FTP client (e.g., FileZilla or WinSCP). ftp://ftp-oceans.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data.nodc/ghrsst/L2P/VIIRS_NPP/NAVO/
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/GHRSST-VIIRS_NPP-NAVO-L2P
21 These data are available through a variety of services via a THREDDS (Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services) Data Server (TDS). Depending on the dataset, the TDS can provide WMS, WCS, DAP, HTTP, and other data access and metadata services as well. For more information on the TDS, see http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/thredds/current/tds/. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/thredds-ocean/catalog/ghrsst/L2P/VIIRS_NPP/NAVO/catalog.html
0 related conference proceedings https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2053430
0 related conference proceedings https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2017965

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