On May 22, 2013 at 0340 UTC GOES-13 encountered an anomaly suspending imaging and sounding operations. Recovery efforts for GOES-13 continue and the spacecraft health and safety are nominal. GOES-14 has been activated as a back-up. The first GOES-14 scan was ingested by CLASS at 0745 UTC on May 23. For details of the outage please click here.
Attention Suomi NPP Users:
The most recent global NPP operational products are now available in daily tar files for quick and easy downloads at: ftp://ftp-npp.class.ngdc.noaa.gov/. Please see the NPP help page for instructions. Up to the most recent 90 days of data will be available for direct online access.
Attention Metop users (03/26/13):
With the exception of IASI and GOME Level 2 data, all Metop-B level 1b satellite data is now publicly available beginning January 15, 2013 to present. Pre-operational data collected prior to that date remains restricted. Please contact the CLASS Help Desk if assistance is needed.
Attention CORS users (12/2012):
The National Geodetic Survey's CORS data is now available for ordering from the CLASS archive. Older data are currently in the process of being migrated from the NGDC archive to CLASS. While every effort is made to retain data in the original at-sampling rate, there may be cases where only the 30-second decimated rate data exists. For more details select 'Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS)' from the product drop down menu and click on Go.
Suomi NPP data access status (03/28/13):
Below is a list of S-NPP products released to the public and now available through CLASS. The complete list of products along with the begin dates of product availability are located on the Suomi NPP FAQ page. The remaining NPP products will be released to the user community over a time frame of several months. Please note that all newly released products are at 'Beta' maturity level as defined in the Product Maturity Level page. Details of high priority issues related to the data quality are contained in the Readme files provided by the NPP Project Scientist. Please read these before ordering and using the data!
Readme for released S-NPP OMPS Nadir Ozone Profile data Readme for released S-NPP OMPS Ozone Total Column EDR and OMPS Nadir Total Column Ozone First Guess Readme for released S-NPP OMPS SDR data
VIIRS:
Readme for released S-NPP VIIRS Active Fires ARP data Readme for released S-NPP VIIRS Aerosol Optical Thickness (AOT) EDR data Readme for released S-NPP VIIRS Cloud Mask IP data Readme for released S-NPP VIIRS Land Surface Temperature EDR Readme for released S-NPP VIIRS Near Constant Contrast (NCC) EDR Ground Track Mercator (GTM) Geolocation and VIIRS Near Constant Contrast Imagery EDR Readme for released S-NPP VIIRS Non-NCC Imagery EDR data Readme for released S-NPP VIIRS Ocean Color/Chlorophyll EDR Readme for released S-NPP VIIRS SDR data Readme for released S-NPP VIIRS Sea Surface Temperature EDR Readme for released S-NPP VIIRS Surface Reflectance Readme for released S-NPP VIIRS Surface Type EDR Readme for released S-NPP VIIRS Vegetation Index EDR
Reminder:
The most recent global NPP operational products are now available in daily tar files for quick and easy downloads at: ftp://ftp-npp.class.ngdc.noaa.gov/.
Tutorial for ordering Suomi NPP data in CLASS:
A tutorial for ordering data through CLASS can be found at Data Access. The tutorial references Suomi NPP data but is applicable to all data types. If you have any questions please email CLASS Help Desk.
Environmental Data from Polar-orbiting Satellites