{"id":387,"date":"2007-04-12T21:53:20","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T21:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/2007\/04\/12\/sea-surface-temperatures-in-the-atlantic-and-gulf-of-mexico\/"},"modified":"2007-04-15T05:04:35","modified_gmt":"2007-04-15T05:04:35","slug":"sea-surface-temperatures-in-the-atlantic-and-gulf-of-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/387","title":{"rendered":"Sea Surface Temperatures in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"AWIPS MODIS SST image\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/04\/070412_atl_sst.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"462\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"AWIPS MODIS SST image\" title=\"AWIPS MODIS SST image\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/04\/070412_atl_sst.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An AWIPS image of the <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"12 April 2007 daily weather map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20070412.html\"><strong>12 April 2007<\/strong><\/a> MODIS Sea Surface Temperature (SST) product over the northwestern  Atlantic Ocean <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed a very sharp SST gradient between the cold waters of the Labrador Current <strong>(30-40\u00c2\u00ba F, blue colors)<\/strong> and the warm waters of the Gulf Stream <strong>(55-65\u00c2\u00ba F, green colors)<\/strong>. An <strong><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"SST Java applet\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/04\/070412_sst.html\">interactive Java applet<\/a><\/strong> allows you to explore the SST values over that region <em>(click on the SST image in the applet to activate the cursor readout).<\/em> A MODIS SST image farther to the south <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> reveals SST values that were significantly warmer <strong>(75-80\u00c2\u00ba F, orange to red colors)<\/strong> in the Gulf of Mexico and along the southern portion  of the Gulf Stream. SST and other Level 2 MODIS Science Products are available daily on the <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"CIMSS MODIS Direct Broadcast Products\" href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/db_products\/\"><strong>CIMSS MODIS Direct Broadcast Products<\/strong><\/a> site.<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"AWIPS MODIS SST image\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/04\/070412_gmex_atl_sst.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"461\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"AWIPS MODIS SST image\" title=\"AWIPS MODIS SST image\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/04\/070412_gmex_atl_sst.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An AWIPS image of the 12 April 2007 MODIS Sea Surface Temperature (SST) product over the northwestern Atlantic Ocean (above) showed a very sharp SST gradient between the cold waters of the Labrador Current (30-40\u00c2\u00ba F, blue colors) and the warm waters of the Gulf Stream (55-65\u00c2\u00ba F, green colors). An interactive Java applet allows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marine-weather","category-modis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}