Data Description
CoastWatch, Alaska Regional Node -
The sea surface temperature (SST) products were derived from NOAA's Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites (POES) for the coastal United States. They were created by NOAA CoastWatch Program and are now only available through this website. CoastWatch started with only POES/AVHRR SST data for the East Coast, but later added more regional nodes of Alaska, Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, Hawaii, Great Lakes, Northeast, Southeast and West Coast. The products provided here are in the original CoastWatch Format, which does not apply to the SST data currently created. The new data is now provided in HDF format, which is also available through this web site.
Details - Metadata, Documentation
| CLASS Beginning Date | 19910414 |
| Ending Date | 20040308 |
| FGDC Metadata | Complete Record |
| Instruments | AVHRR/2, AVHRR/3 |
| Transfer Size | 270k-350 kbs compressed except for meso scale data 1.1-1.2 mbs |
| Related Web Site | Alaska Region Coast Watch |
|
| Pixel Resolution | Synoptic 4 km/pixel, HRPT 1.4 km/pixel |
| Platform | NOAA-11, NOAA-12, NOAA-14, NOAA-15, NOAA-16, NOAA-17 |
| Row Count | 512 |
| Column Count | 512 |
| Output Format | CoastWatch Format |
| Graphic File Type | Compressed IMGMAP |
|
|