nesdisVHNSQnLw486Monthly_Lon0360 eng UTF8 dataset service Roy Mendelssohn NOAA NMFS SWFSC Environmental Research Division +1 831-420-3666 110 McAllister Road Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA erd.data@noaa.gov pointOfContact 2026-03-09 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata Part 2 Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) 4 column 9600 0.037500000000000006 row 4788 0.0375 vertical 1 temporal 168 2645288.622754491 area nLw486, NOAA S-NPP VIIRS, Science Quality, Global 4km, Level 3, 2012-present, Monthly, Lon0360 2026-03-09 creation coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov nesdisVHNSQnLw486Monthly_Lon0360 NOAA CoastWatch coastwatch.info@noaa.gov https://coastwatch.noaa.gov/cw/satellite-data-products/ocean-color/science-quality/viirs-snpp.html information web browser Background Information Background information from the source information originator Level-3 Standard Mapped Image (SMI), Global, 4km, nLw486, Monthly composite data from the Visible and Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). These are science quality data with a 15-day latency. The data, processed by the NOAA/STAR Ocean Color Team, are produced from MSL12 v1.2 using OC-SDR v04 and were release by CoastWatch as of 2017-08-07. VIIRS is a multi-disciplinary instrument that flies on the Suomi-NPP (National Polar-orbiting Partnership) satellite and is the successor to MODIS. Suomi-NPP is the initial spacecraft in the JPSS (Joint Polar Satellite Systems) series of spacecraft. JPSS is our Nation's next generation polar-orbiting operational environmental satellite system. JPSS is a collaborative program between NOAA and its acquisition agent NASA. 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The data, processed by the NOAA/STAR Ocean Color Team, are produced from MSL12 v1.2 using OC-SDR v04 and were release by CoastWatch as of 2017-08-07. VIIRS is a multi-disciplinary instrument that flies on the Suomi-NPP (National Polar-orbiting Partnership) satellite and is the successor to MODIS. Suomi-NPP is the initial spacecraft in the JPSS (Joint Polar Satellite Systems) series of spacecraft. JPSS is our Nation's next generation polar-orbiting operational environmental satellite system. JPSS is a collaborative program between NOAA and its acquisition agent NASA. ERDDAP griddap 1 -180.0 180.0 -89.75625 89.75625 seconds 2012-01-02T12:00:00Z 2026-01-01T12:00:00Z 0.0 0.0 tight ERDDAPgriddapDatasetQueryAndAccess https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/griddap/nesdisVHNSQnLw486Monthly_Lon0360 ERDDAP:griddap ERDDAP-griddap ERDDAP's griddap service (a flavor of OPeNDAP) for gridded data. Add different extensions (e.g., .html, .graph, .das, .dds) to the base URL for different purposes. download nLw486, NOAA S-NPP VIIRS, Science Quality, Global 4km, Level 3, 2012-present, Monthly, Lon0360 2026-03-09 creation NOAA CoastWatch coastwatch.info@noaa.gov https://coastwatch.noaa.gov/cw/satellite-data-products/ocean-color/science-quality/viirs-snpp.html information web browser Background Information Background information from the source information originator Level-3 Standard Mapped Image (SMI), Global, 4km, nLw486, Monthly composite data from the Visible and Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). These are science quality data with a 15-day latency. The data, processed by the NOAA/STAR Ocean Color Team, are produced from MSL12 v1.2 using OC-SDR v04 and were release by CoastWatch as of 2017-08-07. VIIRS is a multi-disciplinary instrument that flies on the Suomi-NPP (National Polar-orbiting Partnership) satellite and is the successor to MODIS. 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Add different extensions (e.g., .html, .das, .dds) to the base URL for different purposes. download nLw486, NOAA S-NPP VIIRS, Science Quality, Global 4km, Level 3, 2012-present, Monthly, Lon0360 2026-03-09 creation NOAA CoastWatch coastwatch.info@noaa.gov https://coastwatch.noaa.gov/cw/satellite-data-products/ocean-color/science-quality/viirs-snpp.html information web browser Background Information Background information from the source information originator Level-3 Standard Mapped Image (SMI), Global, 4km, nLw486, Monthly composite data from the Visible and Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). These are science quality data with a 15-day latency. The data, processed by the NOAA/STAR Ocean Color Team, are produced from MSL12 v1.2 using OC-SDR v04 and were release by CoastWatch as of 2017-08-07. VIIRS is a multi-disciplinary instrument that flies on the Suomi-NPP (National Polar-orbiting Partnership) satellite and is the successor to MODIS. Suomi-NPP is the initial spacecraft in the JPSS (Joint Polar Satellite Systems) series of spacecraft. JPSS is our Nation's next generation polar-orbiting operational environmental satellite system. JPSS is a collaborative program between NOAA and its acquisition agent NASA. 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