Earth Scan Laboratory GOES Night Time SST/SSH Composite Imagery and Animations

Project Director: Nan Walker

GOES night time composite imagery and animation sequences are viewable in three areas

• Gulf of Mexico
• Central Gulf of Mexico
• And, a large area encompassing the coastal region of Central America, the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Eastern Atlantic

The thermal composites are built using the "warmest pixel" approach from a sequence of night time imagery (obtained every 30 minutes) spanning about 10 hours. The pixel size is ~ 4km in size. The GOES-8 and 12 SSTs were computed with GVAR channel 2. The SST algorithms have been developed in the ESL with RMS errors < 0.5 C. (see Walker et. al. 2003) The Sea Surface Height (SSH) data were provided by Dr. Bob Leben, University of Colarado. The project is funded by the Minerals Management Service.

   Note : The most recent 8 days of GOES composite imagery is not published.

Latest Daily Composite

     Gulf of Mexico                   Central Gulf

Latest Weekly Composites

     Gulf of Mexico                   Storm region

The near real-time image archive dates back to Jan 2001.

GOES SST/SSH Daily Composite archive
GOES SST/SSH Weekly Composite archive
Movie Loop Animations

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