gov.noaa.ncdc:C00284 National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Unknown tabular digital data http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov POES AVHRR Aerosol/Sea Surface Temperature Observations is digital data set DSI-9614, archived at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). NOAA has been producing sea surface temperatures (SSTs) from satellite data since 1972. Monitoring of SST from earth-orbiting infrared radiometers has had a wide impact on oceanographic science. Currently, one of the principal sources of infrared data for SST measurement is from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) carried on NOAA's Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites (POES), beginning in 1978. AVHRR is a broad-band, four or five channel (depending on the model) scanner, sensing in the visible, near-infrared, and thermal infrared portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. The POES satellite system offers the advantage of daily global coverage, by making near-polar orbits roughly 14.1 times daily. In-situ SSTs, from buoys (drifting and moored) are used operationally to maintain accuracy -- removing any biases, and compiling statistics with time. In DSI-9614, each aerosol observation file contains eight days of SST observations containing an optical thickness parameter calculated from the Griggs algorithm. The SSTs in these observations are "aerosol- corrected" SSTs, but the uncorrected SSTs are also contained within the observation. To make a wide range of climatic data available to researchers and the public. data set C00284 AVHRR > Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer NOAA POES > NOAA Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites CGC > NOAA Climate and Global Change Program National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce 19890706 Present Ground Condition In work As Needed -180.0 180.0 90.0 -90.0 ISO 19115 Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere 004 imageryBaseMapsEarthCover 010 oceans 014 DIF Discipline Keyword Thesaurus Earth Sciences > Atmosphere > Meteorology Earth Sciences > Atmosphere > Climatology Earth Sciences > Atmosphere > Weather Earth Sciences > Ocean > Oceanography GCMD Sciences Keyword Valids EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > AEROSOLS > AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH/THICKNESS EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > AEROSOLS > AEROSOL RADIANCE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > RADIANCE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > INFRARED WAVELENGTHS > BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > INFRARED WAVELENGTHS > INFRARED RADIANCE EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > INFRARED WAVELENGTHS > THERMAL INFRARED EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS > VISIBLE RADIANCE GCMD Location Valids GLOBAL OCEAN GCMD Location Valids SEA SURFACE CGC > NOAA Climate and Global Change Program NOAA Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites NOAA POES Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer AVHRR 5 None None Not provided Unknown Completeness information not available. Unknown Unknown http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/documentlibrary/tddoc/td9614.doc None National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Customer Service Mailing and physical

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