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 2017-06-01 (NCEI Accession 0163874)

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（European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, EUMETSAT）运营的第二代气象卫星（Meteosat Second Generation, MSG-3）为自旋稳定地球静止卫星，其核心载荷为旋转增强型可见光与红外成像仪（Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed Imager, SEVIRI），可通过12个光谱通道对地观测。该成像仪包含8个热红外通道，能够以约5公里的空间分辨率、15分钟的重访周期，获取云顶温度、陆地与海表温度等多类观测信息。本高分辨率海表温度工作组（Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature, GHRSST）数据集由美国国家海洋和大气管理局（National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA）下属的国家环境卫星、数据与信息服务局（National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, NESDIS）研制，其数据源自2005年12月22日发射的第二颗MSG卫星（亦称Meteosat-9）搭载的SEVIRI载荷。研究人员基于SEVIRI的红外通道，以全分辨率每15分钟计算得到皮肤海表温度（Skin Sea Surface Temperature, SST）数据；随后依照高分辨率海表温度工作组试点项目（GHRSST-PP）数据处理规范（Data Processing Specification, GDS）2.0版本，生成带有单传感器误差统计（Single Sensor Error Statistics, SSES）的L2P数据产品。