GHRSST Level 2P Atlantic Regional Skin Sea Surface Temperature from the Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed Imager (SEVIRI) on the Meteosat Second Generation (MSG-3) satellite (GDS version 2) for 2017-05-20 (NCEI Accession 0163580)

The Meteosat Second Generation (MSG-3) satellites are spin stabilized geostationary satellites operated by the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) to provide accurate weather monitoring data through its primary instrument the Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed Imager (SEVIRI), which has the capacity to observe the Earth in 12 spectral channels. Eight of these channels are in the thermal infrared, providing among other information, observations of the temperatures of clouds, land and sea surfaces at approximately 5 km resolution with a 15 minute duty cycle. This Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) dataset produced by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) is derived from the SEVIRI instrument on the second MSG satellite (also known as Meteosat-9) that was launched on 22 December 2005. Skin sea surface temperature (SST) data are calculated from the infrared channels of SEVIRI at full resolution every 15 minutes. L2P data products with Single Sensor Error Statistics (SSES) are then derived following the GHRSST-PP Data Processing Specification (GDS) version 2.0.欧洲气象卫星开发组织（EUMETSAT）运营的第二代气象卫星（MSG-3）为自旋稳定对地静止卫星，其搭载的核心载荷为旋转增强型可见及红外成像仪（SEVIRI），可通过12个光谱通道对地观测，以此提供精准的气象监测数据。其中8个通道位于热红外波段，除可获取其他观测信息外，还能以约5公里的空间分辨率观测云体、陆地及海表温度，工作周期为15分钟。本高分辨率海表温度（GHRSST）数据集由美国国家海洋和大气管理局（NOAA）下属的国家环境卫星、数据与信息服务中心（NESDIS）制作，其数据源为2005年12月22日发射的第二代气象卫星序列中的第二颗卫星（亦称气象卫星-9）所搭载的SEVIRI成像仪。研究人员基于SEVIRI的红外通道，以全分辨率每15分钟计算一次海表皮肤温度（SST）数据；随后依据GHRSST项目数据处理规范（GDS）2.0版，生成搭载单传感器误差统计（SSES）参数的L2P数据产品。