Fast Registration with Approval (Restrained)

1. Go to the ESA User Services Portal
2. Register or log in to EO Sign In
3. Submit the form for accessing the data
4. The request will be evaluated by ESA, which normally takes up to 2 days
5. Upon successful evaluation, you will receive a confirmation email
6. A second email will follow with details of where to download the data
7. Download the products from ftp://ats-ftp-ds.eo.esa.int/ via an FTP client.

New users can register an account on EO Sign In. For further information about the EO Sign In Service you can visit TellUs.

Should you need support to access the data, please contact EOHelp.

The L2P product contains full resolution dual-view Sea Surface Temperature (SST) values. These SST use the ARC SST retrieval and cloud screening which differ from the methods used to produce the Gridded Surface Temperature (ATS_NR__2P) products. In addition to SST, the L2P products contain the ATSR Saharan Dust Index (ASDI) and the clear-sky probability estimated by the ARC cloud detection algorithm.

The L2P processor also generates L3U products; these are the L2P products averaged onto a regular grid at 0.1 degree resolution (they are therefore similar to the AR / Meteo Envisat-format products).

The L2P and L3U products are provided in NetCDF-4 format following GHRSST Data Specifications (GDS) v2.

The L2P/L3U archive has been reprocessed with a new processor based upon the ARC SST; the changes are outlined in full in the L2P Reprocessing User Note.