Alternate title

gov.noaa.nodc:GHRSST-JPL-L2P-MODIS_A

Date

Identifier

Temperature of the water column | Temperature of the water body | GHRSST JPL-L2P-MODIS_A | gov.noaa.nodc:GHRSST-JPL-L2P-MODIS_A

Other citation details

GHRSST Level 2P Global Skin Sea Surface Temperature from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the NASA Aqua satellite (GDS version 1)

Purpose

The SST products from the radiometer channels in the 4, 11 and 12 um spectrum of the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) - a scientific instrument (radiometer) launched by NASA in 2002 on board the Aqua satellite platform.

Status

onGoing On going

Maintenance and update frequency

Irregular

Used by challenges

• BlackSea - CH04 - Climate

Environmental matrix

• Marine water

Production mode

• Delayed

Visibility

• Information retrieved upon specific request to the data source

Policy visibility

• There is detailed information provided to understand data policy

Readyness

• Format not proprietary and content clearly specified (e.g. autodescriptive like ODV, NetCDF CF) or at least with appropriate document describing the content

Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (P02)

• Temperature of the water column

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Oceanographic geographical features

Processing level of characteristics

• High level analyzed

Data delivery mechanisms

• Online discovery + downloading + viewing services (Advanced services)

Parameter Usage Vocabulary (P01)

• Temperature of the water body

Parameter Usage Vocabulary (other)

• Water column temperature

Agreed Parameter Groups (P03)

• Water column temperature and salinity

Service extent

• The datasets are referenced in a public national catalogue, in an international catalogue service

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

Unrestricted

Use limitation

Open and Free. No charge

Spatial representation type

vector Vector

Distance

1000  meter

Metadata language

Français

Character set

utf8 UTF8

Topic category

• Oceans

Environment description

The data will be used to estimate the trends in SST in the Black Sea for the past 10 years

Begin date

2006-06-30T12:00:00

End date

2015-03-11T12:00:00 Before

Number of dimensions

0

Dimension name

Time

Resolution

5 min  minute

Transformation parameter availability

Yes

Checkpoint Availability

Yes

Distribution format

• netcdf ()

OnLine resource

GHRSST JPL-L2P-MODIS_A Catalogue ( WWW:LINK )

OnLine resource

gov.noaa.nodc:GHRSST-JPL-L2P-MODIS_A ( WWW:LINK )

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/DOCS/modis_sst/

Attribute description

observation

Content type

Physical measurement

File identifier

c4fc0727-821c-4775-9824-63353fbf0c83 XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Series

Hierarchy level name

BlackSea - CH04 - Climate

Date stamp

2018-03-26T12:46:10Z

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115-3 - Emodnet Checkpoint - Upstream Data

Metadata standard version

1.0