AVHRR Pathfinder Version 5.2 Level 3 Collated (L3C) Global 4km Sea Surface Temperature for 1981-2012

• Main Authors: Robert Evans, US DOC/NOAA > National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, US DOC/NOAA/OSO > Office of Satellite Operations, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, US DOC/NOAA/OSPO > Office of Satellite and Product Operations, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: NOAA NCEI Environmental Data Archive 2017
• Subjects: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC > National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; 0071185; 0073577; 0073578; 0073579; 0073580; 0073581; 0073582; 0073583; 0073584; 0073585; 0073586; 0073587; 0073588; 0073589; 0073590; 0073591; 0073592; 0073593; 0073594; 0073595; 0073596; 0073597; 0073598; 0073599; 0073600; 0073601; 0073602; 0073603; 0073604; 0073605; 0099811; 0111842; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; AVHRR-2; AVHRR-3; physical; satellite data; NOAA-11 SATELLITE; NOAA-14 SATELLITE; NOAA-16 SATELLITE; NOAA-17 SATELLITE; NOAA-18 SATELLITE; NOAA-19 SATELLITE; NOAA-7 SATELLITE; NOAA-9 SATELLITE; Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science; US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; National Climatic Data Center; US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; National Oceanographic Data Center; Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST); PATHFINDER; World-Wide Distribution; oceanography; GHRSST > Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature; NOAA/NASA PATHFINDER > NOAA/NASA Pathfinder Program; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; latitude; longitude; sea_ice_area_fraction; sea_surface_skin_temperature; time; wind_speed; AVHRR-2 > Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer-2; AVHRR-3 > Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer-3; NOAA-11 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-11; NOAA-14 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-14; NOAA-16 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-16; NOAA-17 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-17; NOAA-18 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-18; NOAA-19 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-19; NOAA-7 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-7; NOAA-9 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-9; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > GLOBAL OCEAN; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/{C5837267-CA78-453A-9AE5-A655A60552CA}

The AVHRR Pathfinder Version 5.2 Sea Surface Temperature data set (PFV52) is a collection of global, twice-daily 4km sea surface temperature data produced in a partnership by the NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center and the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. PFV52 was computed from data from the AVHRR instruments on board NOAA's polar orbiting satellite series using an entirely modernized system based on SeaDAS. This system incorporates several key changes from Versions 5.0 and 5.1 of Pathfinder, including the use of an entirely new land mask, a modified grid, and the inclusion of sea ice, wind speed, and aerosol ancillary data to support the use of the SST data. Importantly, PFV52 data are provided in netCDF-4 (classic model, with internal compression and chunking) and are nearly 100% compliant with the GHRSST Data Specification Version 2.0 for L3C products. These data deviate from that standard only in that sses_bias, sses_standard_deviation, and sst_dtime variables are empty. PFV52 data were collected through the operational periods of the NOAA-7 through NOAA-19 Polar Operational Environmental Satellites (POES), and are available back to 1981. Data for all years are available as separate NODC accessions.