Description
The NOAA/NASA Pathfinder climate data CD-ROM contains seven data sets: Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR)Land and Ocean, TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS) Paths A, C1, C2, Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) Precipitation and Atmospheric Moisture for the Benchmark Period of April 1987 to December 1988. These data sets can be viewed with a variety of applications including GeoVu, the NCEI multi-platform data browse and visualization software application, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Collage, IMDISP, Spyglass, and Idrisi.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOAA/NASA Pathfinder Climate Data | HTML | Home page of Pathfinder Data | Open resource |
| Web Page | HTML | pathfind.htm | Open resource |
Tags
- air temperature
- atmosphere
- atmospheric moisture
- atmospheric temperature
- atmospheric water vapor
- avhrr land
- avhrr ocean
- biosphere
- brightness temperature
- climate studies
- cloud liquid water
- clouds
- cloud top pressure
- earth science
- global
- infoterra
- microwave
- oceans
- ocean temperature
- outgoing longwave radiation
- pathfinder
- precipitable water
- precipitation
- precipitation rate
- radiance or imagery
- radiation budget
- satellite
- sea surface temperature
- skin temperature
- ssm/i
- subject disciplines
- surface air temperature
- temperature
- tovs a
- tovs c1
- tovs c2
- vegetation
- vegetation index
- water vapor
- weather studies