TY - JOUR
T1 - Skin sea‐surface temperature from VIIRS on suomi‐NPP—NASA continuity retrievals
AU - Minnett, Peter J.
AU - Kilpatrick, Katherine A.
AU - Podestá, Guillermo P.
AU - Evans, Robert H.
AU - Szczodrak, Malgorzata D.
AU - Izaguirre, Miguel Angel
AU - Williams, Elizabeth J.
AU - Walsh, Susan
AU - Reynolds, R. Michael
AU - Bailey, Sean W.
AU - Armstrong, Edward M.
AU - Vazquez‐cuervo, Jorge
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: This study was supported by the NASA Earth Science Physical Oceanography Program, (NNX11AK88G and NNX14AP79A), and in part by NOAA through the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites—North Carolina under Cooperative Agreement NA14NES432003. J. Vazquez‐Cuervo and E. M. Armstrong at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology were funded under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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Acknowledgments: Discussions early in the S‐NPP mission with teams working on the assessment of the VIIRS SSTs in operational environments at NOAA led by A. Ignatov and at the US Naval Oceanographic Office led by D. May have been very constructive, as were those with R. Arnone of the Naval Research Laboratory (subsequently at the University of Southern Mississippi) and K. Turpie at NASA Goddard, now at the University of Maryland Baltimore County Joint Center for Earth systems Technology (JCET). Information provided by the VIIRS Characterization Support Team at NASA Goddard, led by X. Xiong has helped us in understanding better the VIIRS instrument, as have discussions prior to launch with the Northrop Grumman team, especially S. Jackson. The support from the captains, officers, and crews of the research vessels that have hosted M‐AERIs and ISARs is gratefully acknowledged, as is the enthusiastic support of personnel at Royal Caribbean International (RCI) and of Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK Line), both ashore as well as at sea. Andrew Jessup at the University of Washington, Seattle, is thanked for the use of his facilities to calibrate ISARs between deployments. WindSat and AMSR2 data are produced by Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) and sponsored by the NASA Earth Science MEaSUREs DISCOVER Project and the NASA Earth Science Physical Oceanography Program. RSS data are available at www.remss.com.
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PY - 2020/10/2
Y1 - 2020/10/2
N2 - Retrievals of skin Sea‐Surface Temperature (SSTskin) from the measurements of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi‐National Polar‐orbiting Partnership satellite are presented and discussed. The algorithms used to derive the SSTskin from the radiometric measurements are given in detail. A number of approaches to assess the accuracy and stability of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) SSTskin retrievals are reported, and factors including latitude and season, and physical processes in the atmosphere and at the surface are discussed. We conclude that the Suomi National Polar‐orbiting Partnership (S‐NPP) VIIRS is capable of matching and improving upon the accuracies of SSTskin from the MODISs on Terra and Aqua, and that the VIIRS SSTskin fields have the potential to contribute to the extension of the satellite-derived Climate Data Records of SST into the future.
AB - Retrievals of skin Sea‐Surface Temperature (SSTskin) from the measurements of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi‐National Polar‐orbiting Partnership satellite are presented and discussed. The algorithms used to derive the SSTskin from the radiometric measurements are given in detail. A number of approaches to assess the accuracy and stability of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) SSTskin retrievals are reported, and factors including latitude and season, and physical processes in the atmosphere and at the surface are discussed. We conclude that the Suomi National Polar‐orbiting Partnership (S‐NPP) VIIRS is capable of matching and improving upon the accuracies of SSTskin from the MODISs on Terra and Aqua, and that the VIIRS SSTskin fields have the potential to contribute to the extension of the satellite-derived Climate Data Records of SST into the future.
KW - SST
KW - Sea‐surface temperature
KW - Suomi‐ NPP
KW - VIIRS
KW - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite
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U2 - 10.3390/rs12203369
DO - 10.3390/rs12203369
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85092922892
VL - 12
SP - 1
EP - 39
JO - Remote Sensing
JF - Remote Sensing
SN - 2072-4292
IS - 20
M1 - 3369
ER -