MARINE OBSERVATION SOURCE · S033
GHRSST
Discover marine observations available through GHRSST, including parameters, platforms, spatial and temporal coverage, metadata, and access methods.
- Operator
- GHRSST international project / NASA PO.DAAC + NCEI
- Role
- Satellite SST standard + archive
- Platforms
- Polar-orbiting and geostationary satellite sensors; blended analyses
- Observed variables
- Sea-surface temperature; uncertainty; quality flags; auxiliary fields
- Spatial coverage
- Global ocean, sensor/cloud dependent
- Period
- Product/sensor dependent; multi-decadal archive
- Depth coverage
- Ocean skin/subskin/foundation SST depending product; surface only
- QC and data mode
- Standardized GHRSST QC/uncertainty
- Access method
- Search GHRSST/PO.DAAC collections; use Earthdata granule search/OPeNDAP/S3; prefer L2P for actual observations
- Indexed download targets
- 4
Canonical parameters
- Sea-surface temperature
sea_surface_temperature - Sea-surface foundation temperature
sst_foundation - Sea-surface skin temperature
sst_skin - Sea-surface subskin temperature
sst_subskin
Discovery and access
Distinguish L2P observations from L4 analyses in the app UI.