Earth Data

Satellite/Spacecraft

Satellite Instrument

Sea Surface Temp. (SST)

NOAA Meterological Satellites

POES NOAA-14 and NOAA-15

Global Area Coverage Advanced

Very-High Resolution Radiometer

(AVHRR) data

Sea Surface Temp. Anomaly (SST anomaly)

temperature differences over a 30 year average

NOAA Meterological Satellites

POES NOAA-14 and NOAA-15

Global Area Coverage Advanced

Very-High Resolution Radiometer

(AVHRR) data

Clouds

A composit of 5 satellites covering

different parts of the Earth:

GOES 8: North and South America,

GOES 9: NW United States and the Pacific Ocean,

Meteosat: Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, 

FY-2: Central Asia and Australia, and

GMS-5: Asia and the South Pacific.

Visible and IR channels

Water Vapor

Same as clouds

IR channels

Rainfall

Tropical

 Rainfall Measuring Mission

(TRMM)

3B42 or 3B40 when 3B42 is unavailable.

3B40 is a merger of all available SSM/I and

 TMI microwave precipitation estimates.

The 3B42 is a merger of microwave plus

estimates from geostationary

infrared (IR) observations

Biosphere

SeaStar

SeaWiFS Ocean Chlorophyll and

Normalized Derived Vegetation Index

(NDVI)

Earthquakes

United States Geological Survey’s

(USGS)

National Earthquake Information Center