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Current Imagery Eastern US - Satellite Imagery The images that are in these directories are three day composite images. The date on the image is the middle day of the three days. A composite is different than an average as it is used to reduce cloud coverage. This means that if there is cloud coverage on one or more of the data points, this value is not used to compute the average. These composites are made with both day and night satellite pass imagery. The Eastern U.S. satellite images have dimensions of 512x512 pixels at a spatial resolution of 4.8 km x 3.0 km, covering the area 23° N - 45° N and 82° - W 68° W. These images are useful to examine the sea surface temperature patterns along the entire eastern U.S. seaboard and the eastern Great Lakes. They serve particularly well to trace the location and meanders of the Gulf Stream, and to examine the location of anomalous temperature patterns along the coast including large embayments such as the Chesapeake or Delaware Bay. The images may appear somewhat distorted spatially relative to typical maps, since the coast appears wider than taller. This distortion is the result of compressing the image into a 512x512 pixel area to contain the entire U.S. east coast. From a quantitative point of view, however, there is no effect on the sea surface temperature patterns or values. The archive is arranged by year and month. Links appearing in gray-on-gray text have no data available for that particular month. We offer our images with a Google Earth perspective. Get Google Earth. 2009 December November October September August July June May April March February January 2008 December November October September August July June May April March February January 2007 December November October September August July June May April March February January 2006 December November October September August July June May April March February January 2005 December November October September August July June May April March February January 2004 December November October September August July June May April March February January 2003 December November October September August July June May April March February January 2002 December November October September August July June May April March February January 2001 December November October September August July June May April March February January 2000 December November October September August July June May April March February January 1999 December November October September August July June May April March February January 1998 December November October September August July June May April March February January 1997 December November October September August July June May April March February January 1996 December November October September August July June May April March February January 1995 December November October September August July June May April March February January 1994 December November October September August July June May April March February January 1993 December November October September August July

University of South Florida > College of Marine Science > Institute for Marine Remote Sensing (IMaRS) > Sea Surface Temperature - Composite > Eastern US Satellite Imagery - Composite University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, Institute for Marine Remote Sensing (IMaRS) http://imars.marine.usf.edu/cgi-bin/db?site=east&mode=runmean&index=1&type=st Address questions and comments to WebMaster Updated Mon Nov 23 17:19:06 2009 (BJM)