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CoastWatch Swath Files in HDF Format

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: October 13, 2025 | Last Modified: 2003-11-10T00:00:00.000+00:00

CoastWatch swath data derived from AVHRR is full pass swath projection data from different AVHRR receiving stations. The files contain 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 and relative azimuth angle.

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HABITAT SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE WATER TEMPERATURE AVHRR AVHRR-3 continuous derived products imagery physical satellite data surface measurements MetOp-A NOAA-12 NOAA-15 NOAA-16 NOAA-17 NOAA-18 NOAA-19 NOAA Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution NOAA Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution COASTAL 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-15 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-15 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-15 (ICES code: 334W, 1998-2016) 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 > Australia/new Zealand > Australia Continent > North America > United States Of America > Alaska Continent > North America > United States Of America > California Continent > North America > United States Of America > Florida Continent > North America > United States Of America > Hawaii Continent > North America > United States Of America > Virginia 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 Cape Ferguson Queensland, Australia Ewa Beach, HI Gilmore Creek, AK Miami, FL Monterey, CA Wallops Island, VA 1.1 km per pixel at nadir and lower near the edges Level 2

Complete Metadata

describedByType	application/octet-steam
identifier	gov.noaa.nodc:CoastWatch-POES-AVHRR-L2
issued	2003-11-10T00:00:00.000+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	147.05,-19.27,-157.87,64.97
temporal	2003-11-10T00:00:00+00:00/2003-11-10T00:00:00+00:00

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