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The DISCOVER project: Release of the sea surface temperature product
Deborah K. Smith, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA; and F. J. Wentz, R. Spencer, S. Graves, and M. Goodman
The DISCOVER Project (Distributed Information Services for Climate and Ocean Products and Visualizations for Earth Research) was recently funded under the NASA Earth Science Research, Education and Applications Solutions Network (REASoN) program. The primary objective of DISCOVER is to provide highly accurate, long-term ocean and climate products suitable for the most demanding Earth research applications via easy-to-use display and data access tools. It is a follow-on activity to the Passive Microwave ESIP (PM-ESIP) and SSM/I-SSMIS Pathfinder projects. The products included in the project are global sea surface temperatures, ocean surface winds, atmospheric water vapor, and daily cumulative rain rates, all derived from both past and currently active satellite microwave sensors. A key element of DISCOVER is the merging of data from the multiple sensors on multiple platforms into geophysical data sets consistent in both space and time. This presentation will introduce DISCOVER, demonstrate the tools available to web users and provide information on the first data set produced, a diurnally corrected optimally interpolated global sea surface temperature product.
Poster Session 6, Climatology and Long-Term Studies
Wednesday, 22 September 2004, 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
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