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AVHRR Polar Pathfinder Twice-Daily 1.25 km EASE-Grid Composites

Entry ID: NSIDC-0065

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Summary

Abstract:

Please note that the machine on which these AVHRR data are processed has reached its life expectancy and will no longer be available as of 02 June 2008 until further notice.

The AVHRR Polar Pathfinder Twice-Daily 1.25 km EASE-Grid Composites are a collection of products for both poles, consisting of twice-daily gridded and calibrated satellite channel data and derived ...

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Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: -54.0

S: -90.0

E: 180.0

W: -180.0

N: 90.0

S: 48.0

E: 180.0

W: -180.0

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: W. Emery, C. Fowler, T. Haran, J. Key, J. Maslanik, T. Scambos

Dataset Title: AVHRR Polar Pathfinder Twice-Daily 1.25 km EASE-Grid Composites

Dataset Release Date: 2000-12-01

Dataset Release Place: Boulder, CO U.S.A.

Dataset Publisher: National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)

Online Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0065.html

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1992-04-01

Stop Date: 1998-12-31

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > ARCTIC

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Data Resolution

Temporal Resolution: Twice daily
Temporal Resolution Range: Hourly - < Daily

Science Keywords

ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD PROPERTIES > CLOUD FREQUENCY

ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > ALBEDO

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

IMAGERY/BASE MAPS/EARTH COVER

INLAND WATERS

Platform

NOAA-11 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-11

NOAA-12 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-12

NOAA-14 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-14

NOAA-9 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-9

Instrument

AVHRR > Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

Radiometers

Project

EOSDIS > Earth Observing System Data Information System

ESIP > Earth Science Information Partners Program

NOAA/NASA PATHFINDER > NOAA/NASA Pathfinder Program

Quality Channel data are accurate to within approximately +/- 0.2 percent based on sensor noise level of 0.4 data number (DN). Temperatures are accurate to within approximately 2 degrees Kelvin. Relative albedos in adjacent grid cells are accurate to within approximately 5 percent. However, absolute albedo values are approximate. Accuracies for the products are difficult to determine, given the limited ...

Ancillary Keywords

Antarctic

Arctic

Data Set Progress

IN WORK

Data Center

NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center

Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/daac/index.html
Dataset ID: NSIDC-0065

Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC USER SERVICES Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199 Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468 Email: nsidc at nsidc.org Contact Address: National Snow and Ice Data Center CIRES, 449 UCB University of Colorado City: Boulder Province or State: CO Postal Code: 80309-0449 Country: USA

National Snow and Ice Data Center

Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org
Dataset ID: NSIDC-0065

Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC USER SERVICES Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199 Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468 Email: nsidc at nsidc.org Contact Address: National Snow and Ice Data Center CIRES, 449 UCB University of Colorado City: Boulder Province or State: CO Postal Code: 80309-0449 Country: USA

Distribution

Distribution Media: 8 mm tape, ftp

Distribution Size: varies. see Summary

Distribution Format: 1-byte and 2-byte integer grids. Ice motion data are in ASCII text format.

Personnel

NSIDC USER SERVICES

Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT

Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199

Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468

Email: nsidc at nsidc.org

Contact Address:

National Snow and Ice Data Center

CIRES, 449 UCB

University of Colorado

City: Boulder

Province or State: CO

Postal Code: 80309-0449

Country: USA

Publications/References

Cracknell, A.P. 1997. The Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer. London: Taylor & Francis. Csiszar, I. and G. Gutman. 1999. Mapping global land surface albedo from NOAA AVHRR. Journal of Geophysical Research 104(D6):6215-6228. Emery, W.J., C.W. Fowler, and J.A. Maslanik. 1995. Satellite remote sensing of ice motion, in Oceanographic Applications of Remote Sensing, M. Ikeda and F.W. Dobson ... eds. Boca Raton: CRC Press, pp. 367-379. Goodison, B.E. 1989. Determination of areal snow water equivalent on the Canadian prairies using passive microwave satellite data. IGARSS '89, Proceedings 3:1243-1246. Gustafson, G.B. et al. 1994. Support of Environmental Requirements for Cloud Analysis and Archive (SERCAA), Phillips Laboratory, Hanscom Air Force Base, Scientific Report No. 2, PL-TR-94-2114, 100 pp. Hutchinson, T.A. and T.A. Scambos. 1997. High-resolution polar climate parameters derived from 1-km AVHRR data. Proceedings of the Eighth Symposium on Global
Climate Change Studies, American Meteorological Society, Long Beach, CA, pp. 284-289. Key, J. 1999. The cloud and surface parameter retrieval (CASPR) system for polar AVHRR. Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Key, J. and A.J. Schweiger. 1998. Tools for atmospheric radiative transfer: Streamer and FluxNet. Computers and Geosciences 24(5): 443-451. Key, J., J. Collins, C. Fowler, and R.S. Stone. 1997. High-latitude surface temperature estimates from thermal satellite data. Remote Sensing of the Environment 61: 302-309. Kidwell, K.D. 1995. NOAA Polar Orbiter Data User's Guide, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NESDIS. Maslanik, J.A., J. Key, C. Fowler, T. Nguyen, 2000. AVHRR-derived regional cloud and surface conditions during SHEBA and FIRE-ACE. Journal of Geophysical Research, in press. Maslanik, J., C. Fowler, J. Key, T. Scambos, T. Hutchinson, and W. Emery, 1998. AVHRR
-based Polar Pathfinder products for modeling applications. Annals o
f Glaciology 25: 388-392. Meier, W.N., J.A. Maslanik, J.R. Key, and C.W. W. Fowler. 1997. Multiparameter AVHRR-derived products for Arctic climate studies, Earth Interactions, Vol. 1. Ninnis, R.M., W.J. Emery, and M.J. Collins. 1986. Automated extraction of pack ice motion from advanced very high resolution radiometer imagery. Journal of Geophysical Research 91(C9): 10,725-10,734. Rao, C.R.N. and J. Chen. 1999. Revised post-launch calibration of channels 1 and 2 of the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer on board the NOAA-14 spacecraft. Rao, C.R.N. and J. Chen. 1994. Post-launch calibration of the visible and near-infrared channels of the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer on NOAA-7, -9, and -11 Spacecraft. NOAA Technical Report NESDIS 78, 22 pp. Rao, C.R.N. 1993. Nonlinearity corrections for the thermal infrared channels of the AVHRR: Assessment and recommendations. NOAA Technical Report, NESDIS 69, 31 pp. Rosborough, G.W., D.G. Baldwin, and W.J. Emery. 199
4. Precise AVHRR image navigation. IEEE Transactions in Geosciences and Remote Sensing 32(3):644-657. Saunders, R.W. and K.T. Kriebel. 1988. An improved method for detecting clear sky and cloudy radiances from AVHRR data. International Journal of Remote Sensing 9(1): 123-150. Schweiger, A., C. Fowler, J. Key, J. Maslanik, J. Francis, R. Armstrong, M.J. Brodzik, T. Scambos, T. Haran, M. Ortmeyer, S. Khalsa, D. Rothrock, and R. Weaver. 1999. P-Cube: A multisensor data set for polar climate research. Proceedings on the 5th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography, American Meteorological Society, Dallas, TX, 15-20 Jan., 136-141. Schweiger, A.J. and J.R. Key. 1992. Arctic cloudiness: Comparison of ISCCP-C2 and Nimbus-7 satellite-derived cloud products with a surface-based cloud climatology. Journal of Climate 5(12): 1514-1527. Stowe, L.L., E.P. McClain, R. Carey, P. Pellegrino, and G.G. Gutman. 1991. Global distribution of cloud cover derived from NOAA/AVHRR operatio
nal satellite data. Advances in Space Research 11(3): 51-54. Stroeve
, J.C., J.E. Box, C. Fowler, T. Haran, and J. Key, 2000. Intercomparison between in situ and AVHRR Polar Pathfinder-derived surface albedo over Greenland. Remote Sensing of the Environment, in press. Stroeve, J.C., 2000. Assessment of Greenland albedo variability from the AVHRR Polar Pathfinder data set. Journal of Geophysical Research, submitted for publication. Suttles, J.T., R.N. Green, P. Minnis, G.L. Smith, W.F. Staylor, B.A. Wielicki, I.J. Walker, D.F. Young, V.R. Taylor, and L.L. Stowe. 1988. Angular radiation models for Earth-Atmosphere system. Volume I-Shortwave radiation, NASA Reference Publication 1184, 144 pp. Walton, C.C., J.T. Sullivan, C.R.N. Rao, and M.P. Weinreb. 1998. Corrections for detector nonlinearities and calibration inconsistencies of the infrared channels of the advanced very high resolution radiometer. Journal of Geophysical Research 103(C2):3323-3337. Yamanouchi, T., K. Suziki, and S. Kawaguchi. 1987. Detection of clouds in Antarctica from i
nfrared multispectral data of AVHRR. Journal of Meteorological Society Japan 65(6): 949-961.

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DIF Creation Date: 2000-06-07

Last DIF Revision Date: 2011-08-01

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