NOAA CoastWatch East Coast Node
Data Types Info Data Types: SST         - AVHRR                 - AVHRR-VIIRS                 - Geo-Polar Blended                 - PODAAC MUR Chl-a       - MODIS                 - OLCI (HiRes)                 - VIIRS Clarity     - K490 (MODIS)                 - K490 (MODIS HiRes)                 - K490 (OLCI HiRes)                 - K490 (VIIRS)                 - Rrs667 (MODIS)                 - Rrs672 (VIIRS)                 - TSM (MODIS HiRes)                 - TSM (OLCI HiRes)                 - TSM (VIIRS HiRes) True Color (VIIRS)
Data Access Info HTTP Rolling Archive FTP Time Series Archive
Region Info Regions: U.S. East Coast North East Coast Gulf of Maine Massachusetts & RI Bays Mid-Atlantic Coast NY-NJ Bight & Long Island Sound Chesapeake & Delaware Bays South East Coast Carolina Coast Florida - Georgia Coast
CoastWatch Utilities Time Series Tool ERDDAP MGET Experimental Algal Bloom Monitor

 

Data Types

CoastWatch East Coast Node makes a variety of oceanographic satellite data available to coastal resource managers, scientists, and the general public.

Data Type Satellite/Instrument Specifications
Sea Surface Temperature (SST) AVHRR instrument on NOAA POES & European MetOp satellites
(NOAA POES & MetOp-A discontinued in near real-time, MetOp-B in current data only)
More info
Data access: FTP, HTTP
  • Daytime and nighttime orbit passes over East Coast region for each satellite
  • Daily, 3-day, 7-day, monthly, seasonal & annual composites (all satellites, day and night combined)
  • 2008 to present
  • 1.25 km spatial resolution
AVHRR & VIIRS instruments on MetOp, SNPP & NOAA JPSS satellites
More info
Data access: FTP, HTTP
  • Nighttime orbit passes over East Coast region for each satellite
  • ACSPO consistent multi-sensor processing
  • Daily, 3-day, 7-day and monthly composites (both sensors all satellites combined, nighttime only)
  • 2020 to present
  • 840 m spatial resolution
Geo-Polar Blend of all current geostationary and polar-orbiting satellites
More info
Data access: FTP, HTTP
  • Cloud-free
  • Daily, night only
  • East Coast, Northeast, Mid-atlantic, and Southeast regions
  • 5 km spatial resolution
Multi-scale Ultra-high Resolution (MUR) SST from JPL/PODAAC
More info
Data access: FTP, HTTP, Time Series Tool
  • Multi-satellite blend
  • Cloud-free
  • Daily
  • East Coast, Northeast, Mid-atlantic, and Southeast regions
    (and bay and estuarine sub-regions)
  • 1 km spatial resolution
Chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) MODIS instrument on NASA Aqua satellite
More info
Data access (NOAA OC3 NIR-SWIR algorithm): FTP
  • NOAA OC3 NIR-SWIR algorithm for all regions
  • Additional products availble by request (more info):
    • NASA OC3 NIR algorithm processed by NOAA for all regions (except Chesapeake Bay)
    • Region-specific NASA OC3 NIR algorithm for Chesapeake Bay only
  • Once daily
  • 1 km spatial resolution
  • Early afternoon overpass (~1:30 PM)
OLCI instrument on European Union's Sentinel-3A & Sentinel-3B satellites
More info
Data access: FTP, HTTP
  • OC4ME algorithm (4-band modified from MERIS), 1999 MERIS atmospheric correction
  • Mapped swath and daily
  • All East Coast regions
  • 300 m spatial resolution
  • Mid-morning overpass (~10 AM)
VIIRS instrument on Suomi-NPP satellite
More info
Data access: FTP, HTTP
  • OC3V algorithm (3-band modified for VIIRS), BMW atmospheric correction
  • Once daily and 7-day composites
  • All East Coast regions
  • 750 m spatial resolution
  • Early afternoon overpass (~1:30 PM)
Diffuse Light Attenuation at 490 nm (Kd490) MODIS instrument on NASA Aqua satellite
More info
Data access (standard algorithm): FTP
Data access (NOAA algorithm): FTP
  • Standard algorithm (GSFC's KD2) for all East Coast regions
  • NOAA algorithm (Wang, 2009) for turbid coastal water combined with GSFC standard algorithm for open-ocean water. Generated for regions: East Coast, Chesapeake Bay, Outer Banks, and South East Coast.
  • Once daily
  • 1 km spatial resolution
  • Early afternoon overpass (~1:30 PM)
MODIS instrument on NASA Aqua satellite: High-resolution bands
More info
Data access: FTP, HTTP
  • NOAA/NOS algorithm for turbid coastal water at high spatial resolution.
  • 1-3 mapped swaths per day
  • All East Coast regions
  • 250 m spatial resolution
  • Early afternoon overpass (~1:30 PM)
OLCI instrument on European Union's Sentinel-3A & 3B satellites
More info
Data access: FTP, HTTP
  • European OLCI M07 Kd490 algorithm
  • Mapped swath and daily
  • All East Coast regions
  • 300 m spatial resolution
  • Mid-morning overpass (~10 AM)
VIIRS instrument on Suomi-NPP satellite
More info
Data access: FTP, HTTP
  • NOAA algorithm (Wang, 2009) for turbid coastal water combined with GSFC standard algorithm for open-ocean water.
  • Once daily and 7-day composites
  • All East Coast regions
  • 750 m spatial resolution
  • Early afternoon overpass (~1:30 PM)
Remote-Sensing Reflectance (Rrs) at Red Wavelengths MODIS instrument on NASA Aqua satellite
More info
Data access: FTP
  • Rrs at 667 nm wavelength
  • All regions except Chesapeake Bay
  • Once daily
  • 1 km spatial resolution
  • Early afternoon overpass (~1:30 PM)
VIIRS instrument on Suomi-NPP satellite
More info
Data access: FTP, HTTP
  • Rrs at 672 nm wavelength
  • All regions except Chesapeake Bay
  • Once daily
  • 750 m spatial resolution
  • Early afternoon overpass (~1:30 PM)
Total Suspended Matter (TSM) MODIS instrument on NASA Aqua satellite
More info
Data access: FTP, HTTP
  • NOAA algorithm (Ondrusek, 2012) for MODIS
  • Chesapeake Bay only
  • Once daily
  • 250 m spatial resolution
  • Early afternoon overpass (~1:30 PM)
OLCI instrument on European Union's Sentinel-3A & Sentinel-3B satellites
More info
Data access: FTP, HTTP
  • European Space Agency neural net algorithm for OLCI
  • All East Coast regions
  • Mapped swath and daily
  • 300 m spatial resolution
  • Mid-morning overpass (~10 AM)
VIIRS instrument on Suomi-NPP satellite
More info
Data access: FTP, HTTP
  • NOAA algorithm (Ondrusek, 2012) for VIIRS
  • Chesapeake Bay only
  • Once daily and monthly
  • 375 m spatial resolution
  • Early afternoon overpass (~1:30 PM)
True Color VIIRS instrument on Suomi-NPP satellite
More info
Data access: FTP, HTTP
  • Red, green and blue wavelengths
  • All East Coast regions
  • Once daily
  • 750 m spatial resolution
  • Early afternoon overpass (~1:30 PM)

Data Access via direct download of data files and images:

    FTP Time Series Archive
    HTTP Rolling Archive

East Coast Node filenaming convention
Sample shell script to download data from http directory tree
Latitude-Longitude file for each region

Data citation: Please acknowledge "NOAA CoastWatch/OceanWatch" when you use data from our site and cite the particular dataset DOI as appropriate.



 
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