Ocean colour and SST data from the AVHRR, MODIS and MERIS sensors for the UK area

Weekly and monthly sea surface temperature of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea.

The Maurice Lamontagne Institute (MLI) remote sensing laboratory operates NOAA satellite image receiving stations in Mont-Joli (Quebec), Resolute Bay (Nunavut) and Sidney (British Columbia). Images from Fairbanks (Alaska), Wallops Island (Virginia), Monterrey (California) and Sioux Falls (South Dakota) are also acquired from the NOAA CLASS archives. These data are processed to calculate sea surface temperatures (SST) and are used within oceanographic research projects and for ecosystem monitoring. These images allow the monitoring of the evolution of diverse physical processes and their coupling to biological processes.

The nowCOAST 'obs' Web Map Service (WMS) provides layers containing near real-time surface meteorological and oceanographic observations from various sources. Some observations are updated as frequently as every six minutes, while others are updated hourly. The 'obs' WMS is one of several map services provided by NOAA's nowCOAST project (http://nowcoast.noaa.gov). For further layer information such as layer icons, legend graphics, layer descriptions, and valid timestamps, see the nowCOAST 'LayerInfo Web Service' description page at: http://nowcoast.noaa.gov/help/layerinfo.shtml. For more information about nowCOAST's available Web Map Services, see the nowCOAST Map Services information page at: http://nowcoast.noaa.gov/help/mapservices.shtml. nowCOAST is a product of the NOAA/NOS/OCS Coast Survey Development Laboratory.