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Near Real-time Products are listed in three categories: Atmosphere, Land and Ocean. Climate is found at the end of this table |
Description and link to product (some links require selection of the particular product). Data links presented below should not be considered "operational". Similar links to those below, without a thumb nail or product description, can be accessed by clicking here. |
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Aerosols, Global |
Aerosol product from AVHRR available for daily, weekly or monthly time periods. |
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Animations of cloud imagery and products |
Animations are available with many of the products in these sections. For other imagery animation links go to sites accessible through the WMO Virtual Laboratory web site on the home page. |
See thumbnails below
for: Cloud Top Height; Cloud Top
Pressure; Precipitation; Total Precipitable Water, Global; Winds, |
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Cloud Ice Water Path, Global |
Global cloud ice path derived from NOAA polar orbiting satellites, AM orbit and PM orbit. By selecting products from the home page, then select today or yesterday then the NOAA satellite and IWP. This site also provides global images for cloud liquid water, rain rate, snow, sea ice, rain rate, land surface temperature and total precipitable water. |
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Cloud Ice Water Path, Global and Regional |
Regional and global cloud ice water path (IWP) derived from NOAA polar orbiting satellites. By selecting products from the home page, then select today or yesterday then the NOAA satellite and IWP. |
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Cloud Liquid water, Global and Regional |
Regional and global cloud liquid water (CLW) derived from NOAA polar orbiting satellites. By selecting products from the home page, then select today or yesterday then the NOAA satellite and CLW. |
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Cloud Top Height, Global |
Convective and high cloud
top in thousands of feet based on global multi-satellite infrared
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Cloud Top Pressure and Effective Cloud Amount: Hemispheric from GOES-12 imager |
With the 13.3 um band, GOES imager Cloud Top Pressure (CTP) are derived by using the CO2 Absorption Technique. Data are processed every three hours |
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GOES Image Loops |
Realtime
GOES East and GOES West Loops with |
RAMSDIS OnLine, Barbados, Costa Rica plus S. America (versión en español) |
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Hurricane |
See tropical storms below |
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Precipitation, Flash Flood |
Variety of products from NESDIS Office of Research and Applications Flash Flood Home page from Hydro-estimator can look at various parts of the world |
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Precipitation, Global |
3 hourly blended microwave and IR precipitation estimations. Close-ups of selected regions also available. |
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Precipitation, Global rain rate |
The rain
rate product from SSM/I is a measurement of the rainfall intensity
over the Earth's surface. Indeterminate data can result from the polar ice
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Precipitation, Tropical Storm Rainfall Potemtial |
Tropical Rainfall Potential Product (TRAP) derived from AMSU data with current rain rate and forecast 24 hour accumulation and storm positions. Access TRAP from the left banner on the CIRA AMSU page. For other rainfall products derived for tropical storms see Tropical Storms below. |
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Radiance, Global visible Top of Atmosphere |
From MODIS bands 1, 3 and 4 |
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Sounding Products from GOES, Regional |
GOES Sounder
Products (TPW, Atmospheric Stability, ozone) over the |
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Total Precipitable Water, Global (Over water only) |
Current image or animation of Global near real-time blended AMSU and SSM/I total precipitable water. Animation is at 6 hourly intervals for about the past six days. For animations click on Blended TPW Animation on left banner – this is an excellent product for a variety of training and analysis applications. |
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Total Precipitable Water, Regional (Over water only) |
Regional and global total precipitable water derived from NOAA polar orbiting satellites. By selecting products from the home page, then select today or yesterday then the NOAA satellite and TPW. |
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Tropical Storms |
There are a number of excellent satellite focused sites that deal with tropical storms. Select below for certain satellite based tropical cyclone products: 1) Genesis potential; 2) Intensity (Dvorak technique Intensity number); 3) position; 4) rainfall; 5) winds from AMSU |
The following sites provide a variety of satellite related tropical storm products. NOAA NESDIS Special Events Imagery NOAA National Hurricane Center NRL tropical cyclone (Many products) |
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Water Vapor |
Water vapor products are
available from the “Sounding Products from GOES” and “Total Precipitable Water” products above. For animations, see
Polar water vapor motions from “Winds, |
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Winds, |
This page provides near real-time plots of winds over the polar regions derived from the AVHRR on-board the NOAA-15, -16, and -17 satellites or from the MODIS instrument on the Terra and Aqua satellites. |
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Winds, tropical and mid-latitude global |
Cloud and Water Vapor Motion winds over various regions from geostationary hosted at NRL but from CIMSS. Other presentations along with derived fields are available from left side banner the CIMSS tropical cyclone page. |
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Land Surface |
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Fires –polar orbiting satellites, global morning and afternoon |
Fires from MODIS imager (Terra, morning, Aqua afternoon). Fires appear as red dots in the imagery. The thumbnail to the right shows is a portion of a 2 km MODIS granule showing fires. Select a day from the calendar on the sites home page, then desired MODIS area (granule). |
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Fires- geostationary coverage at frequent intervals |
Derived at frequent
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Snow cover, Global |
Global land snow cover from MODIS, Can specify either single day or time period (in year and Julian day format). Click on an area in the global image to pop-up a 5km-resolution close-up of that region and other information. |
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Snow cover, Regional |
Operational snow cover maps from NESDIS for Northern Hemisphere. This site contains good links to other snow cover sites. |
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Snow depth, Global |
The snow
depth product from SSM/I measures the depth of recently accumulated
dry snow. Snowfall amounts in excess of 40 cm are considered erroneous. This
product is updated once per day at |
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Soil moisture, Global |
The soil
moisture product from SSM/I gives the percentage of moisture for the
land regions. Values in excess of 70 percent are considered erroneous. This
product is updated once per day at |
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Surface Type |
The global surface
type product from SSM/I describes the environment-type of the land
regions. See the legend below the product to identify the environment-types.
Indeterminate data can be the result of certain warm regions in the Sahara or
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Surface Reflectance |
Daily or 8-day composite from MODIS. Click on an area in the global image to pop-up a 5km-resolution close-up of that region and other information |
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Temperature, Global Land Surface |
This global
surface temperature product from SSM/I measures the temperature at
the surface in land regions. Indeterminate data can be a result of snow, ice,
and water covered areas, and certain warm regions of the Sahara and |
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Temperature, |
Near real time high resolution surface (land or sea) temperature products are available from MODIS. Not cloud cleared. Select day from the calendar on the sites home page, then desired MODIS area then LST from left banner. |
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Vegetation Health |
Vegetation health index from NOAA AVHRR. Boxes can be accessed at higher resolution. Comparisons can be made with previous periods. |
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Vegetation Normalized Derived Vegetation Index (NDVI) |
NDVI from MODIS imager (Terra, morning, or Aqua afternoon). MODIS NDVI is available from 250 meters to 4 km. Select day from the calendar on the sites home page, then desired MODIS area then NDVI from left banner. |
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Sea Surface |
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Multi Product Site: Products from a variety of satellites for Ocean Surface Winds, Sea Surface Temperature and Ocean Color may be seen on NOAA’s Coast Watch site |
The CoastWatch provides access to satellite ocean remote
sensing data and products for a selected geographic regions.
Multiple products, sensors and satellites may be selected and dates may be
entered manually or by using the pop-up calendars. Simply follow the
instructions on the page and select the appropriate product or products. |
Winds SST
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Altimetry (sea level anomaly) |
Various products from satellite altimeters include the ability to select global analysis, as thumb nail to right |
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Color |
Ocean
color derived from MODIS for the large |
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El Nino and La Nina |
This
site provides answers to basic questions such as: What are La Nina
and El Nino; Frequently asked questions and impacts of El Nino. It also describes current conditions that
include current information and forecasts as well as real time data and
products, including satellite data. |
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Ice concentration, Global |
The ice
concentration product from SSM/I measures the percentage contcentration of ice over the oceans. Values exceeding
100 percent are considered erroneous. This product is updated once per day at
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Ice, Global |
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Temperature, local areas SST |
Near real time high resolution surface (land or sea) temperature products from MODIS. Not cloud cleared but when used with the global SST product below can provide valuable insight into mesoscale SST. Select day from the calendar on the sites home page, then desired MODIS area then LST from left banner. Also see CoastWatch site referenced above. |
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Temperature, Global SST |
Global SST analyses combining satellite derived SST with NCEP global analysis. Previous times are also available. |
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Wind speed, Ocean surface |
The wind speed product from SSM/I is a measurement of the wind speed over the oceans. Indeterminate data in the product below usually results from the inability to take accurate measurements from the polar ice caps and areas of rainfall. This product is updated every four hours, and may be clicked on for a zoom in sector. |
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Wind Velocity (speed and direction), Ocean surface |
Global Winds from QUIKScat. Scroll down after accessing page and click on desired area of quikscat pass for 12.5 km resolution winds from either ascending or descending orbits. Also see CoastWatch site referenced to above. |
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Climate |
There are numerous satellite climate related sites. Rather than provide an extensive list, click on the desired agency under the thumbnail section to the right. Click below for selected climate products such as Monthly Ozone, AQUA – AMSU and MSU Products for Climate Applications, |
Links to GEWEX
related activities such as ISCCP, GPCP, GVAP, NESDIS Research and Applications
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