MODIS Aqua Level 3 Thermal IR Monthly 4km

The MODIS Aqua and Terra Global Level 3 Mapped Thermal and Mid-IR SST product consists of sea surface temperature (SST) data that are derived from the NASA MODIS sensor on board the Aqua and Terra satellites. SST is derived from the 11 and 12 um thermal IR infrared (IR) bands (MODIS channels 31 and 32) and the 3 and 4 mid-IR bands (MODIS channels 20,21,22 and 23). The data have been mapped to a cylindrical equidistant map projection with 4.63 or 9.26 km spatial bins.

Note: The data is remotely accessed via the PO.DAAC's Thredds server.

Reference:

Walton, C.C., W. G. Pichel, and J.F. Sapper, 1998, The development and operational application of nonlinear algorithms for the measurement of sea surface temperatures with the NOAA polar-orbiting environmental satellites, Journal of Geophysical Research, 103: (C12) 27999-28012.

Brown, O.B., and P.J. Minnett, 1999, MODIS Infrared Sea Surface Temperature Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document, Ver 2.0, http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/atbd/atbd_mod25.pdf

Variables
Sea surface temperature (degC) at day and night times
Quality flags
ZonalGlobal by 0.0417 deg
MeridionalGlobal by 0.0417 deg
VerticalSurface  
Temporal Jul 2002 to (present - 6 months) by 1 month(s)
Static?no
VolumeExternal
Serverpublic:
Sourcehttp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/MODIS_AQUA_L3_SST_THERMAL_MONTHLY_4KM_DAYTIME 
Acquired Nov 25, 2011 (Updated monthly)
APDRC contact
SupplementsMODIS_SST_Guide_Doc.pdf