National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service(NESDIS)

Global Monthly AVHRR Climatology Over Land Clear-sky top-of-the-atmosphere variables

by Garik Gutman, Dan Tarpley, Aleksandr Ignatov, NOAA/NESDIS Satellite Research Laboratory, Camp Springs, Maryland
and Steve Olson, Research and Data Systems Corporation, Greenbelt, Maryland.

This is Volume 3 in the Global Change Data Base:
Editor David Hastings, NOAA/NESDIS National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder, Colorado

The subdirectories under this directory contain documentation on individual ancillary data sets. The data are contained in the \DATA\NCILLARY directory.

Most of the data are .gif files scanned from documentation of the Global Ecosystems Database. The Global Ecosystems Database itself is available from

The Global Ecosystems Database, and other parts of the Global Change Data Base of NOAA/NGDC contain integrated digital representations of soils, vegetation, ecosystems, climate, topography, and other information. This information can be vaulable in studies of climate or vegetation - and for comparison with the AVHRR-based climatologies distributed on this CD.

The individual subdirectories in \DOCUMENT are for individual layers in this \DATA\NCILLARY data base.

The directory names are the same as the first characters in the files under \DATA\NCILLARY. Thus the \DOCUMENT\NCILLARY\FSOIL directory contains documentation on the file \DATA\NCILLARY\FAOSOIL.IMG

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