Satellite Data :　 SST, Cloud/Wind, Ocean Color, hw/sw　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

A starting point for searching satellite data in the following APEC member economies: Australia (CORSA, sample), Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile(Meteo Chile), People's Republic of China(SMC), Hong Kong, China (HKUST); Indonesia, Japan (Tokyo Univ.), Republic of Korea(KORDI), Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Republic of the Philippines, Russia, Singapore (CRISP, sample), Chinese Taipei (NCU), Thailand, USA (NASA/JPL, sample) and Viet Nam

Other sources: EWSE (European Wide Service Exchange), Germany, Italy (sample image on Chile), Russia (MIR space station, Priroda space module), WMO (world meteorological organization), Brazial (sample)　　

Conferences & Meetings on satellite oceanography　

Please give proper credits to the data sources if you use their data

Some web sites listed below may have changed, please use Google to search for their new site.

1.　NOAA Satellite Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Data:

  1. US SST sites:


NRL-Stennis The Algorithm Research Panel for Sea Surface Temperature (ARP/SST)
University of Rhode Island GSO
University of Miami RSMAS
NOAA/NESDIS Enviromental Products
FNMOC SST Analyses
NCEP SST Analyses
NOAA/NASA AVHRR Ocean Pathfinder
University of Wisconsin, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
 

  1. NOAA/SST and GMS/VISSR images near Japan with a sample quick-look image of 1996/9/22 13:20 SST (source: Takagi and Kitsuregawa Lab, Institute of Industrial Science, U of Tokyo )


National Space Development Agency of Japan

  1. SST around Australia and New Zealand from CSIRO
  2. near daily satellite SST around Korea (provided by KORDI)
  3. near-weekly SST near Taiwan with a sample SST image of 1995/1/8 18:50


(source: Taiwan Fishery Research Institute and NSC project KEEP, Kuroshio and East China Sea Exchange Processes) 　

  1. some images over East Asia seas (derived from NOAA AVHRR data):


sample SST images: Rings east of Korea, Yellow Sea, Luzon Strait, South China Sea, Andaman Sea and Gulf of Thailand
(sources: Prof. Cho-Teng Liu of NTU and Prof. Ruo-Shan Tseng of NSYSU)

  1. Mean SST near the Philippines in 1981~96
  2. Suspended sediments in the East China Sea (source: Prof. PAN Delu of SIO/SOA)
  3. 18 km resolution weekly mean day-time SST of East Asia (90E-140E, 10S-45N)


browse images of SST (8 kB / week) of 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 (Jan-June) with animation

digital SST images (28 kB / week) of 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 (Jan-June) with animation　

SST (C) = 0.15 * DC - 2.1 (methods for computing SST)
DC = digital count of the pixel value, or the number below the color table

Since the data required for display is faster than the data transmission across the internet,
the animation tends to hang up; the animation may be revived by clicking on the image after some time for data transmission across the net

If you like to view these images again, please save them to your own disk by shift-click the file.

If you like to personize the animation of satellite images:
save the images in your disk, block image files in the file manager and drag them onto LView (a share ware) window;
"Options/Slideshow options" gives you the selection of manual/automatic, cyclic, and the animation speed

For setting up a mirror site at your own country,
please consult the representative of your country to the APEC MRCWG or write to us.

Caveats: please be cautious in using those SST images with very smooth contours, they may be artifacts of artificial contouring over data void regions

(sources: original data is from PODAAC of JPL/NASA;
images were processed by personnel from : NTUIO in Taipei and UP/MSI in Manila)

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2. Cloud, wind Images and weather data:

  1. Basic information on Geostationary satellites (WMO), GOES satellites (specifications & functions)
  2. Japanese GMS satellites (images, sample of typhoon in the Pacific), PRC GMS FY-2 (sample)
  3. Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP): order data
  4. cloud and water vapor images from Korea Meteorological Agency
  5. Animated cloud images over Taiwan and southeast of China (source: Central Weather Bureau)
  6. GMS Pathfinder Project in COSSA / EOC of Australia and USA (sample)
  7. South America air temperature (sample), GOES imagess from Brazil (ftp site), comercial
  8. Antarctica : recent composit IR images (sample)
  9. WeFax cloud images from GMS at Univ. of Hawaii
  10. satellite WIND data from NSCAT (sample home page and image of Pacific WIND field of 1996/9/21)

3. Activities on ocean color studies:

  1. general information on satellite ocean color studies: WHOI site, NASA/GSFC/ SeaWiFS (sample), CZCS, NASDA/ADEOS/OCTS, NSPO/OCI, POCEX
  2. MOS : the first ocean color sensor since 1987; MOS ( Modular Optoelectronic Scanner ) was designed and built by DLR, is a payload of Priroda (nature) Project; see sample images on Birma (color composite, swIR), English Channel, Gibrata and Greece.
  3. OCTS on the ADEOS images : OCTS is the only operational ocean color sensor in the sky; images near Japan, SE Asia, and USA; requests of OCTS data should be directed to the Earth Observation Research Center in Japan, EORC archives all the data acquired by OCTS;
  4. Some CZCS images: South China Sea, southern Taiwan, Luzon Strait
  5. ROCSAT-1 Ocean Color Imager Science Team (OCI-ST) (before 96.7.1)


Starting 96.7.1, OCI-ST is under the leadership of Prof. Hsien-Wen Li of the National Taiwan Ocean University, The Advisory Panel is led by Prof. Wen-Ssn Chuang of IONTU

  1. OCI-SDDC: ROCSAT-1 Ocean Color Imager - Science Data Distribution Center is led by Prof. Hsien-Wen Li of National Taiwan Ocean Univ. since 1994, Reveiw Panel is led by Prof. Wen-Ssn Chuang of IONTU
  2. CZCS data on averaged Chl. a near the Philippines in 1981~96

4. research programs, hardware and software:

  1. Marine related software and graphics (from ONR Tokyo office)
  2. Earth observation programs that use satellite data
  3. Global Land 1-km AVHRR Project (sample, 97/3/11)
  4. satellite tracking, NOAA satellites, WxSat, microsast
  5. HDF files: freeware/shareware desktop-platform viewers for the GOES and GMS images in HDF format, which are located at the the NASA/Ames Research Center/Explorer site (ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/pub/Weather). In addition to the HDF viewers for various platforms found at NCSA/HDF homepage (http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu), there is a new one available (free) from the Fortner Research LLC site (http://www.fortner.com)--called HDF Browser
  6. shareware in Taiwan (http://ftp.nctu.edu.tw/WWW/client/)


5. Conference on Satellite Oceanography


International Conference on Satellites, Oceanography and Society (ICSOS); sample

Compute the digital value of SST from images (*.gif files)

Spatial resolution of the SST field of East Asia: 90E-140E in 285 columns; 10S-45N in 310 rows
Save the image and read the file into Spyglass/Transform3 (an image processing s/w)

For a point value of SST:
generate and enlarge the image, activate the select tool

For the SST field of East Asia:
click and drag the cursor to block the data within the border and axes (digital count=0)

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