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GSSTF_F13·v3·dataset

Heat and moisture moving off the sea (daily, satellite F13)

Goddard Satellite-Based Surface Turbulent Fluxes, 0.25 x 0.25 deg, Daily Grid F13 V3 (GSSTF_F13) at GES DISC
atmosphere NASA GES_DISC Level 3
In plain English

What it measures. Daily estimates of how heat and moisture move between the ocean surface and the air above it, mapped on a quarter-degree grid covering the globe.

How it's made. Derived from a single DMSP satellite's SSM/I microwave sensor (the F13 unit) as part of a NASA project, and stored in a standard scientific data format.

How & where you'd use it. Helps study how the ocean exchanges energy and water with the atmosphere. These single-satellite daily files also feed into a combined product that merges several satellites.

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 3 (GSSTF3) 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 0.25x0.25 degree cell size, resulting in data arrays of 1440x720 size. The daily fluxes are produced for each individual available SSM/I satellite tapes (e.g., F11, F13, F14 and F15), and then serve as input to the Combined daily fluxes (GSSTF_3). The short name of this data set 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="3",
    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.