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)

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.

欧洲气象卫星运营组织（European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, EUMETSAT）运营的第二代气象卫星（Meteosat Second Generation, MSG-3）为自旋稳定型地球静止卫星，其搭载的核心主载荷——旋转增强型可见与红外成像仪（Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed Imager, SEVIRI）可提供高精度气象监测数据。该成像仪具备12个光谱通道的对地观测能力，其中8个通道处于热红外波段，可采集云体、陆地及海表温度等多类观测信息，空间分辨率约为5公里，观测循环周期为15分钟。
本数据集为美国国家海洋和大气管理局（National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA）下属国家环境卫星、数据与信息服务中心（National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, NESDIS）制作的高分辨率海表温度工作组（Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature, GHRSST）数据集，其数据源自2005年12月22日发射的第二代MSG卫星（亦称Meteosat-9）搭载的SEVIRI仪器。
科研人员基于该仪器的红外通道，以全分辨率每15分钟计算一次海表皮肤温度（Skin Sea Surface Temperature, SST）数据；随后依照高分辨率海表温度工作组-项目数据处理规范（GHRSST-PP Data Processing Specification, GDS）2.0版，生成带有单传感器误差统计（Single Sensor Error Statistics, SSES）的L2P级数据产品。