{"id":54883,"date":"2023-10-04T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T09:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=54883"},"modified":"2023-10-04T15:59:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T15:59:53","slug":"viirs-views-the-gulf-stream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/54883","title":{"rendered":"VIIRS views the Gulf Stream"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/VIIRS_ACSPOSSTGulfStream-20231004_060808toggle.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/VIIRS_ACSPOSSTGulfStream-20231004_060808toggle.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54884\" style=\"width:1086px;height:904px\" width=\"1086\" height=\"904\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">NOAA-20 Day Night Band visible (0.7) imagery and derived ASCPO SSTs, 0608 UTC on 4 October 2023 (click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mostly clear skies over the western Atlantic on 4 October 2023 meant that the Advanced Clear Sky Processor for Oceans (ACSPO) algorithm could produce a near-complete picture of sea-surface temperatures using data from NOAA-20&#8217;s VIIRS instrument.  The sinuous Gulf Stream is marked as a region of warmest waters, around 85<sup>o<\/sup>F off the coast of South Carolina (pink in the enhancement used);  once past 70<sup>o<\/sup>W Longitude, warmest surface waters in the Gulf Stream are closer to 80<sup>o<\/sup>F (orange in the enhancement).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a GOES-16 Level 2 Sea Surface Temperature product as well, computed hourly; it is shown in the animation below that brackets the VIIRS SSTs shown above (and <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/VIIRS_ACSPOSSTGulfStream-20231004_060808.png\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/G16SSTs-20231004_0400_to_0900step.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1104\" height=\"919\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/G16SSTs-20231004_0400_to_0900step.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54887\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">GOES-16 Derived Clear-Sky SSTs, 0400-0900 UTC on 4 October 2023 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The toggle below compares the higher-spatial-resolution VIIRS SST field with the GOES Level 2 Product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1104\" height=\"919\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/N20VIIRS_SST_0608_G16SSTs-20231004_0600toggle.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54888\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">NOAA-20 VIIRS and GOES-16 ABI estimates of Sea Surface Temperature, 0600 UTC on 4 October 2023 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mostly clear skies over the western Atlantic on 4 October 2023 meant that the Advanced Clear Sky Processor for Oceans (ACSPO) algorithm could produce a near-complete picture of sea-surface temperatures using data from NOAA-20&#8217;s VIIRS instrument. The sinuous Gulf Stream is marked as a region of warmest waters, around 85oF off the coast of South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":54885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,78,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-noaa-20","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54883","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54890,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54883\/revisions\/54890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}