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GSSTF_F13·v2c·dataset

Heat and moisture exchange over the ocean (F13, daily)

Goddard Satellite-Based Surface Turbulent Fluxes, 1x1 deg Daily Grid, Satellite F13 V2c (GSSTF_F13) at GES DISC
atmosphere NASA GES_DISC Level 3
In plain English

What it measures. Daily measurements of the heat and moisture passing between the ocean surface and the air above it, on a 1-degree global grid. These 'turbulent fluxes' describe how the sea and atmosphere exchange energy and water vapor.

How it's made. Derived from microwave readings taken by the F13 satellite's SSM/I sensor and processed into a daily gridded product.

How & where you'd use it. A building-block input for studying ocean-atmosphere interaction and climate; these single-satellite daily files also feed into combined multi-satellite flux products.

What's measured

ATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE › SEA LEVEL PRESSUREATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE › SURFACE TEMPERATURE › AIR TEMPERATUREATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE › SURFACE TEMPERATURE › SKIN TEMPERATUREATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE › SURFACE TEMPERATUREATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR › WATER VAPOR PROCESSES › EVAPORATIONATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR › WATER VAPOR INDICATORS › HUMIDITYATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR › WATER VAPOR INDICATORS › TOTAL PRECIPITABLE WATERATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR › WATER VAPOR INDICATORS › WATER VAPORATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC WINDS › SURFACE WINDSATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC WINDS › WIND DYNAMICS › TURBULENCEATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC WINDS › WIND DYNAMICS › WIND STRESSATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION › ATMOSPHERIC HEATINGATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION › HEAT FLUXATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION › RADIATIVE FLUX

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span1995-05-03 → 2009-01-01
  • Measured byDMSP 5D-2/F13 (SSM/I)
  • Processing levelLevel 3
  • Spatial extent-180, -90, 180, 90
  • StatusCOMPLETE

What you can do with it

  • Map air pollutants — NO₂, aerosols, ozone
  • Track greenhouse gases and Earth's energy budget
  • Feed weather and air-quality analysis
Official description

These data are part of the Goddard Satellite-based Surface Turbulent Fluxes Version-2c (GSSTF 2c) Dataset recently produced through a MEaSURES funded project led by Dr. Chung-Lin Shie (UMBC/GEST, NASA/GSFC), converted to HDF-EOS5 format. The stewardship of this HDF-EOS5 dataset is part of the MEaSUREs project. This is a Daily (24-hour) product; data are projected to equidistant Grid that covers the globe at 1x1 degree cell size, resulting in data arrays of 360x180 size. A finer resolution, 0.25 deg, of this product has been released as Version 3. The daily fluxes are produced for each individual available SSM/I satellite tapes (e.g., F08, F10, F11, F13, F14 and F15), and then serve as input to the Combined daily fluxes (GSSTF_2c). The short name for this dataset is GSSTF_F13.

Get the data

gsstf_f13_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")          # free Earthdata Login

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="GSSTF_F13",
    version="2c",
    bounding_box=(-122.5, 37.2, -121.8, 37.9),  # your area (W,S,E,N)
    temporal=("2024-01-01", "2024-12-31"),       # your dates
)
files = earthaccess.open(results)   # stream straight from GES_DISC
Browsing CMR needs no login. Downloading or streaming bytes needs a free Earthdata Login + the earthaccess package.