The ABI Instrument Engineering Telemetry Data file contains data used to support the generation of ABI Level 1b products, and monitor and evaluate the health and performance of the instrument. This data is transmitted to the ground in raw digital counts, and subsequently converted into physical units by the ground system. Most of the data pertains to the temperature of components in the instrument. This includes the ABI Infrared Calibration Target (ICT), the North-South and East-West scan mirrors, the three focal plane modules (i.e., VNIR, MWIR, LWIR), and the ABI optical bench.

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Series (GOES-R), the latest generation of geostationary weather satellites, significantly improves the detection and observation of environmental phenomena, resulting in improved public safety, more accurate forecasts, better protection of property, and greater assurance on our nation's economic health and prosperity.

The GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Level 2 Land Surface Albedo (LSA) as defined as the ratio between outgoing and incoming irradiance at the earth's surface. The LSA is a shortwave broadband blue-sky albedo over wavelengths between 0.4 and 3.0 µm. Besides the blue-sky broadband shortwave albedo, the LSA algorithm also generates spectral land surface reflectance as byproducts. The frequent temporal refreshment, fine spectral resolution and large spatial coverage make ABI a unique data source for mapping LSA.

The GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Level 2 Bidirectional Reflectance Factor (BRF) products provide spectral land surface reflectance, i.e., a ratio between outgoing radiance at one given direction and incoming radiance at another given direction (same or different from the incoming direction). In this product, the outgoing direction is the direction of the satellite view, while the incoming direction is the direction of solar illumination. The BRF is produced at the following wavelengths: 0.47 µm, 0.64 µm, 0.86 µm, 1.61 µm, and 2.26 µm, corresponding to bands 1, 2, 3, 5, 6.

The GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Level 2 Ice Age and Thickness (AITA) contains determination of sea and lake ice thickness and age information of each clear pixel data acquired by the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) on the GOES-R series. The core of the ice thickness and age algorithm used to create this product is a One-dimensional Thermodynamic Ice Model (OTIM), which all components of the surface energy budget that are needed for the estimation of sea and lake ice thickness.

The GOES-R Advanced Basline Imager (ABI) Level 2 Ice Concentration and Extent (AICE) contains estimated ice extent, ice concentration, and ice surface temperature over water surfaces under clear-sky conditions. Linear regression is used to retrieve ice surface temperature from the GOES-R ABI with split window channels. A group threshold method is applied to identify ice over water surfaces and a tie-point algorithm is carried out to determine the representative reflectance/temperature of 100% ice covered surface, which is then used to estimate the ice concentration.

Aerosol measurements began at the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) Global Monitoring Division (GMD) baseline observatories in the mid-1970's with the purpose of detecting a response, or lack of response, of atmospheric aerosols to changing conditions on a global scale. In 1992 ESRL/GMD expanded its aerosol research program to include regional aerosol monitoring stations due to anthropogenic aerosols creating a significant perturbation in the Earth's radiative balance on regional scales.

The North American Multi-Model Ensemble (NMME) is a multi-model seasonal forecasting system consisting of coupled models from North American modeling centers. The contributing modeling centers are NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Environment Canada’s Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis (CCCma), and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

This Climate Data Record (CDR) contains total solar irradiance (TSI) as a function of time created with the Naval Research Laboratory model for spectral and total irradiance (Version 2.1). Version 2.1 improves the scientific quality of the earlier Version 2.0 based on new research to achieve high accuracy and improved understanding of uncertainties with the Solar Irradiance CDR. Total solar irradiance is the total, spectrally integrated energy input to the top of the Earth's atmosphere, at a standard distance of one Astronomical Unit from the Sun. Its units are W per m2.

This Climate Data Record (CDR) contains solar spectral irradiance (SSI) as a function of time and wavelength created with the Naval Research Laboratory model for spectral and total irradiance (Version 2.1). Version 2.1 improves the scientific quality of the earlier Version 2.0 based on new research to achieve high accuracy and improved understanding of uncertainties with the Solar Irradiance CDR. Solar spectral irradiance is the wavelength-dependent energy input to the top of the Earth's atmosphere, at a standard distance of one Astronomical Unit from the Sun.