AVHRR CoastWatch Great Lakes Regional Node Data, May 1991-March 2004 (NODC Accession 0121318)

The sea surface temperature (SST) products were derived from NOAA's Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites (POES) for the coastal United States and created by NOAA CoastWatch Program. CoastWatch started with only POES/AVHRR SST data for the East Coast, but later added more regional nodes of Alaska, Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, Hawaii, Great Lakes, Northeast, Southeast and West Coast. The products provided here are in the original CoastWatch Format, which does not apply to the SST data currently created. The new data is now provided in HDF format, which is available through the NODC and the NOAA Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System (CLASS).本数据集的海表温度（Sea Surface Temperature，SST）产品源自美国国家海洋和大气管理局（National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration，NOAA）的极轨业务环境卫星（Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites，POES），覆盖美国沿海区域，由NOAA海岸监视计划（CoastWatch Program）研制生成。该计划最初仅采用东海岸地区的POES与先进甚高分辨率辐射计（Advanced Very-High-Resolution Radiometer，AVHRR）海表温度数据，后续新增了阿拉斯加、加勒比海、墨西哥湾、夏威夷、五大湖、东北海岸、东南海岸以及西海岸等多个区域数据节点。此处提供的产品采用原始的海岸监视计划格式，该格式不适用于当前新生成的海表温度数据。目前新的数据已采用分层数据格式（Hierarchical Data Format，HDF）发布，可通过国家海洋数据中心（National Oceanographic Data Center，NODC）以及NOAA大型阵列数据综合管理系统（Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System，CLASS）获取。