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 |
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21 |
pathfind.htm |
https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ecosys/cdroms/Pathfinder98/pathfind.htm |
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21 |
Home page of Pathfinder Data |
https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ecosys/cdroms/Pathfinder98/pathfind.htm |
Tags
- climate studies
- radiation budget
- precipitation
- infoterra
- pathfinder
- weather studies
- atmospheric temperature
- sea surface temperature
- biosphere
- tovs c2
- avhrr ocean
- oceans
- water vapor
- vegetation index
- brightness temperature
- atmospheric water vapor
- atmosphere
- air temperature
- outgoing longwave radiation
- cloud liquid water
- ocean temperature
- global
- tovs a
- earth science
- surface air temperature
- cloud top pressure
- ssm/i
- precipitable water
- vegetation
- avhrr land
- satellite
- skin temperature
- tovs c1
- atmospheric moisture
- subject disciplines
- clouds
- temperature
- microwave
- precipitation rate
- radiance or imagery