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AVHRR CoastWatch Regional Data, November 2003 - present

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: October 04, 2025 | Last Modified: 2013-02-12T00:00:00.000+00:00

The mapped data derived from AVHRR (Advanced High Resolution Radiometer) onboard NOAA and Metop satellites is divided into files for CoastWatch regions of interest. Each file contains multiple data variables stored using the HDF-4 Scientific Data Sets (SDS) model. The product contents are channel 1 albedo, channel 2 albedo, channel 3a albedo, channel 3 brightness temperature, channel 4 brightness temperature, channel 5 brightness temperature, moisture corrected sea-surface-temperature, 8-bit CLAVR ocean cloud mask, 2-bit CLAVR-X cloud mask, satellite zenith angle, solar zenith angle, relative azimuth angle and 8-bit graphics layers. The pixel resolution is 1.47 km/pixel except for synoptic region in Alaska (5 km/pixel) and the Great Lakes (1.8 km/pixel).

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0099041 HABITAT SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE WATER TEMPERATURE AVHRR AVHRR-3 continuous derived products imagery physical satellite data surface measurements MetOp-A NOAA-12 NOAA-16 NOAA-17 NOAA-18 NOAA-19 NOAA Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution NOAA Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution NOAA CoastWatch (CoastWatch) Caribbean Sea Coastal Waters of California Coastal Waters of Gulf of Mexico Coastal Waters of Hawaii Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia Coastal Waters of Washington/Oregon Coastal Waters of Western U.S. East Coast - US/Canada Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary Great Barrier Reef (Coastal Waters) Gulf of California Gulf of Mexico Mid-Atlantic Bight North American Coastline-North North American Coastline-South North Atlantic Ocean North Pacific Ocean West Coast - US/Canada oceanography satelliteObservation DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/OSPO > Office of Satellite and Product Operations, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE sea_surface_temperature AVHRR > Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer AVHRR-3 > Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer-3 METOP-A > Meteorological Operational Satellite - A NOAA-12 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-12 NOAA-16 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-16 NOAA-17 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-17 NOAA-18 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-18 NOAA-19 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-19 MetOp-A (ICES code: 064Q, 2006-2016) NOAA-12 (ICES code: 3207, 1991-2007) NOAA-16 (ICES code: 33J9, 2000-2014) NOAA-17 (ICES code: 33ZS, 2002-2013) NOAA-18 (ICES code: 33WM, 2005-2016) NOAA-19 (ICES code: 33Y9, 2009-2016) Continent > North America > United States Of America > Great Lakes OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > CARIBBEAN SEA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF AMERICA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MEXICO OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > CENTRAL PACIFIC OCEAN > HAWAIIAN ISLANDS OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN Ocean > Atlantic Ocean > North Atlantic Ocean > Bermuda Ocean > Pacific Ocean > North Pacific Ocean > Gulf Of Alaska Alaska North Alaska Sitka Alaska South Alaska West Caribbean East Caribbean West East Coast Bermuda East Coast North East Coast South Great Barrier Reef Great Salt Lake West Coast Acapulco West Coast Baja West Coast North West Coast South 1.47 km in Alaska 1.8 km in Great Lakes Level 3

Complete Metadata

describedByType	application/octet-steam
identifier	gov.noaa.nodc:CoastWatch-POES-AVHRR-L3-HDF
issued	2013-02-12T00:00:00.000+00:00
landingPage	https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
language	[]
references	[ "https://coastwatch.noaa.gov/", "https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/satellite/publications/podguides/N-15%20thru%20N-19/", "https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/sod/mecb/coastwatch/cwf/cwutils_ug_3_4_0.pdf" ]
rights	otherRestrictions
spatial	180.0,-90.0,-180.0,90.0
temporal	2003-11-10T00:00:00+00:00/2003-11-10T00:00:00+00:00

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