NOAA Great Lakes CoastWatch New Data, Products and Services

Session: Remote Sensing, Visualization, and Spatial Data Applications for the Great Lakes (3)

Philip Chu, NOAA/GLERL, [email protected]
Songzhi Liu, CIGLR/University of Michigan, [email protected]
George Leshkevich, Great Lakes Env. Research Lab, NOAA, [email protected]

Abstract

CoastWatch is a NOAA/NESDIS-wide program designed to provide near real-time satellite data and applications to support federal, state, local stakeholders and research community.  The Great Lakes CoastWatch node offers Great Lakes region specific data, and products. Satellite data offer high spatial coverage and temporal frequency that have been used to compliment in-situ observations and validate numerical model outputs in the past few decades.  For example, long-term lake surface temperature, lake levels, ice covers, winds and other variables derived from various satellite sensors provide invaluable tool to regional climate and environmental studies. The presenter will provide an overview of the NOAA CoastWatch program, introduce CoastWatch datasets such as the new GOES-16 SST, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) winds/ice maps and VIIRS/MODIS ocean color (chlorophyll).  In addition, methods to access CoastWatch data, tools and web servers will be discussed as well.