Satellite Products

ProductBrief descriptionSource and Link
EUMETSAT Meteorological Product Extraction Facility MPEF
Operational SATREP Operational SATREP provided by ZAMG/KNMI/FMI SATREP
Atmospheric Winds from Geostationary Satellites GOES TPW GOES Instability Global satellite cloud motion and water vapor winds (access through left banner on page)
Total Precipitable water from GOES Sounder (over USA)
Lifted Index from GOES Sounder (over USA)
NESDIS CIMSS WIND
NESDIS CIMSS TPW
NESDIS CIMSS LI
Ocean Surface Winds Winds from Quikscat and SSM/I from NESDIS Office of Researtch and Applications (ORA) SSM/I
QuikScat
Polar Data (Global) Rainfall Rate 
Rainfall Frequency 
Cloud Liquid Water 
Cloudiness Frequency 
Total Precipitable Water 
Snow Cover 
Sea-Ice
Land Surface Properties
Suite of daily and monthly products from passive Microwave Imagery, including
  • DMSP Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I)
  • NOAA Advanced Microwave
  • Sounding Unit (AMSU)
  • EOS-Aqua Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer
  • NASA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)
  • DMSP Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS)
NESDIS ORA Microwave Sensing Research Team Home Page (left banner under products) and
CIRA AMSU Web page
Precipitation from GOES Rainfall estimates from GOES Imagery over the USA at rates that include instantaneous, 1, 3, 6 and 24 hour amounts. ORA site also links to rainfall from GOES over South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, Alaska, Hawaii, and the Eastern Pacific. NESDIS ORA
RAMSDIS OnLine
GlobalVegetation Health Global Vegetation Health Derived from AVHRR data NESDIS ORA
Fire GOES Fires over Central America close-ups on RAMSDIS OnLine
GOES Fire loops over North America and South America using the advanced ABBA algorithm
RAMSDIS OnLine
NESDIS CIMSS ABBA
Sea Surface Temperature Global SST fields and loops of 2, 4 and 6 month anomalys from NOAA AVHRR (left banner). Images and loops from GOES NESDIS ORA AVHRR
NESDIS CIMSS GOES
Sea level anomaly Sea surface anomaly fields from altimetry data from TOPEX NESDIS ORAD
Climate Products AMSU climate products, left banner allows interaction with data NESDIS ORA
Polar Sounding Products Global HIRs and AMSU products, can interact with site NESDIS ORA

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