Gridded satellite (GridSat) GOES and CONUS data

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• Journal Title:
  Earth System Science Data
• Personal Author:
  Knapp, Kenneth R. ; Wilkins, Scott L.
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service) ; NCEI (National Centers for Environmental Information) ; CICSP (Cooperative Institute for Climate Science)
• Description:
  The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) series is operated by the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). While in operation since the mid-1970s, the current series (GOES 8–15) has been operational since 1994. This document describes the Gridded Satellite (GridSat) data, which provide GOES data in a modern format. Four steps describe the conversion of original GOES data to GridSat data: (1) temporal resampling to produce files with evenly spaced time steps, (2) spatial remapping to produce evenly spaced gridded data (0.04∘ latitude), (3) calibrating the original data and storing brightness temperatures for infrared (IR) channels and reflectance for the visible channel, and (4) calculating spatial variability to provide extra information that can help identify clouds. The GridSat data are provided on two separate domains: GridSat-GOES provides hourly data for the Western Hemisphere (spanning the entire GOES domain) and GridSat-CONUS covers the contiguous US (CONUS) every 15 min (dataset reference: https://doi.org/10.7289/V5HM56GM).
• Keywords:
  • Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)
• Source:
  Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 1417–1425
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1417-2018
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  Grant no. NA14NES4320003
• Rights Information:
  CC BY
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/45190/noaa_45190_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.95 MB]
• Collection(s):
  NOAA Cooperative Institutes ; National Environmental Satellite and Data Information Service (NESDIS)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:9a6ffd018169f792a9f68d5c25655312f1e341c438c949b3babf3b5c971835ca