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Asheville North Carolina 28801-5001 USA 828-271-4800 828-271-4010 828-271-4876 ncdc.orders@noaa.gov 8:00 - 6:00 Eastern http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/about/ncdccontacts.html Unknown remote sensing image http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov http://www2.ncdc.noaa.gov/docs/podug/index.htm http://www2.ncdc.noaa.gov/docs/gviug/index.htm NOAA Polar Orbiting Satellites is digital data set DS-3615, archived at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). This is meteorological satellite data. The Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites (POES) system offers the advantage of daily global coverage, by making nearly polar orbits roughly 14.1 times daily. Currently in orbit there are morning and afternoon satellites, which provide global coverage four times daily.The POES system includes the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) and the Tiros Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS), in POES satellites beginning with the original TIROS-N in October 1978, followed by NOAA-6 through NOAA-14. The latter was launched in December 1994. A new generation ofenhanced POES satellites began with the first NOAA-KLM satellite launch in May 1998.DS-3615 includes the following products:Global Vegetation Index (GVI) indicates the weekly condition of the Earth's vegetation. Produced from AVHRR, GVI is used as a tool to study continental patterns and global patterns of the Earth's vegetation. Available in NCDC archive are the Second Generation Daily, Plate, and Polar GVI products, and also the Third Generation B, C, and D level GVI products. Time period covered in April 1985 through January 2001. Radiation Budget represents the balance between incoming energy from the Sun and outgoing thermal (longwave) and reflected (shortwave) energy from the Earth. Shortwave and longwave surface radiative fluxes are computed on a 1 degree equal-angle grid with detailed and parameterized radiative transfermodels using meteorological data (clouds, temperature and humidity profiles, ozone, etc.) This data is produced from the low resolution Global Area Coverage (GAC) AVHRR daily data. Infrared and visible radiances are combined with time, earth location and angular measurements of satellite altitude and solar zenith angle as an initial data base for analysis. The heat budget parameters are derived and mapped into 2.5 degree arrays. Time period covered is October 1984 through the present day. Microwave Surface and Precipitation Products System (MSPPS) is dedicated to the retrieval of near-real-time operational surface and precipitation productsusing antenna temperatures from the AMSU-A and AMSU-B instruments on board the NOAA-KLM series of satellites. The current suite of MSPPS products are total precipitable water, cloud liquid water, rain rate, snow cover, sea ice concentration, ice-water path, emissivity, and land surface temperature. Other products in DS-3615 include AMSU-B soundings, ATOVS soundings, RTOVS soundings, aerosols, SBUV/2 ozone, SSM/T1 soundings, and sea surface temperatures. To make a wide range of climatic data available to researchers and the public. data set C00573 Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS) TIROS-N Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS) Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit A (AMSU-A) Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit B (AMSU-B) Advanced TIROS-N Operational Vertical Sounder (ATOVS) Revised TIROS-N Operational Vertical Sounder (RTOVS) Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet (SBUV/2) Special Sensor Microwave Temperature Sounder (SSM/T1) DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC http://www2.ncdc.noaa.gov/docs/intro.htm 19781001 Present Ground Condition In work As Needed -180.0 180.0 90.0 -90.0 DIF Discipline Keyword Thesaurus Earth Sciences > Atmosphere > Meteorology Earth Sciences > Atmosphere > Climatology Earth Sciences > Atmosphere > Weather Earth Sciences > Ocean > Oceanography ISO 19115 Topic Category ClimatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere 004 Elevation 006 Environment 007 Oceans 014 GCMD Sciences Keyword Valids EARTH SCIENCE > Agriculture > Agricultural Plant Science > Crop/Plant Yields EARTH SCIENCE > Agriculture > Agricultural Plant Science > Reclamation/Revegetation/Restoration EARTH SCIENCE > Agriculture > Forest Science > Afforestation/Reforestation EARTH SCIENCE > Agriculture > Soils > Reclamation/Revegetation/Restoration EARTH SCIENCE > Agriculture > Soils > Soil Heat Budget EARTH SCIENCE > Agriculture > Soils > Soil Temperature EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Air Quality > Tropospheric Ozone EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Chemistry/Oxygen Compounds > Ozone EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Radiation > Outgoing Longwave Radiation EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Temperature > Air Temperature EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Water Vapor > Humidity EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Water Vapor > Precipitable Water EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Clouds > Cloud Amount/Frequency EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Clouds > Cloud Emissivity EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Clouds > Cloud Height EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Clouds > Cloud Liquid Water/Ice EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Clouds > Cloud Reflectance EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Clouds > Cloud Top Temperature EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Precipitation > Precipitation Rate EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Vegetation > Vegetation Cover EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Frozen Ground > Soil Temperature EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Sea Ice > Ice Edges EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Sea Ice > Ice Extent EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Sea Ice > Ice Temperature EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Sea Ice > Leads EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Sea Ice > Polynyas EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Sea Ice > Sea Ice Concentration EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Sea Ice > Sea Ice Motion EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Albedo EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Snow Cover EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Snow/Ice Temperature EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Snow/Ice > Albedo EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Snow/Ice > Snow Cover EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Snow/Ice > Snow/Ice Temperature EARTH SCIENCE > Hydrosphere > Water Quality > Water Temperature EARTH SCIENCE > Land Surface > Frozen Ground > Soil Temperature EARTH SCIENCE > Land Surface > Land Temperature > Land Surface Temperature EARTH SCIENCE > Land Surface > Soils > Soil Heat Budget EARTH SCIENCE > Land Surface > Soils > Soil Temperature EARTH SCIENCE > Land Surface > Surface Radiative Properties > Albedo EARTH SCIENCE > Land Surface > Surface Radiative Properties > Emissivity EARTH SCIENCE > Land Surface > Surface Radiative Properties > Thermal Properties EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Heat Budget > Longwave Radiation EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Heat Budget > Shortwave Radiation EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Optics > Water-leaving Radiance EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Sea Surface Temperature EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Water Temperature EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Sea Ice > Ice Edges EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Sea Ice > Ice Extent EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Sea Ice > Ice Temperature EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Sea Ice > Leads EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Sea Ice > Polynyas EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Sea Ice > Sea Ice Concentration EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Sea Ice > Sea Ice Motion EARTH SCIENCE > Spectral/Engineering > Infrared Wavelengths > Brightness Temperature EARTH SCIENCE > Spectral/Engineering > Infrared Wavelengths > Infrared Imagery EARTH SCIENCE > Spectral/Engineering > Ultraviolet Wavelengths > Ultraviolet Radiance EARTH SCIENCE > Spectral/Engineering > Visible Wavelengths > Visible Imagery EARTH SCIENCE > Spectral/Engineering > Visible Wavelengths > Visible Radiance EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES > Data Analysis And Visualization > Visualization/Image Processing EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES > Models > Mathematical Models GCMD Location Valids Global GCMD Location Valids Sea Surface Stratosphere Troposphere None None Not provided Unknown Completeness information not available. 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