The AVHRR Polar Pathfinder Climate Data Records
With recent, dramatic changes in Arctic sea ice and the Antarctic ice sheets, the importance of monitoring the climate of the polar regions has never been greater. While many individual global satellite products exist, the AVHRR Polar Pathfinder products provide a comprehensive set of variables that...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:26ab5783e62844bca0daf85d481bd72c 2023-05-15T13:51:41+02:00 The AVHRR Polar Pathfinder Climate Data Records Jeffrey Key Xuanji Wang Yinghui Liu Richard Dworak Aaron Letterly 2016-02-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8030167 https://doaj.org/article/26ab5783e62844bca0daf85d481bd72c EN eng MDPI AG http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/8/3/167 https://doaj.org/toc/2072-4292 2072-4292 doi:10.3390/rs8030167 https://doaj.org/article/26ab5783e62844bca0daf85d481bd72c Remote Sensing, Vol 8, Iss 3, p 167 (2016) Polar regions Arctic Antarctic climate data record AVHRR clouds radiation sea ice Science Q article 2016 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8030167 2022-12-30T20:26:02Z With recent, dramatic changes in Arctic sea ice and the Antarctic ice sheets, the importance of monitoring the climate of the polar regions has never been greater. While many individual global satellite products exist, the AVHRR Polar Pathfinder products provide a comprehensive set of variables that can be used to study trends and interactions within the Arctic and Antarctic climate systems. This paper describes the AVHRR Polar Pathfinder (APP), which is a fundamental climate data record that provides channel reflectances and brightness temperatures, and the AVHRR Polar Pathfinder—Extended (APP-x), which is a thematic climate data record that builds on APP to provide information on surface and cloud properties and radiative fluxes. Both datasets cover the period from 1982 through the present, twice daily, over both polar regions. APP-x has been used in the study of trends in surface properties, cloud cover, and radiative fluxes, interactions between clouds and sea ice, and the role of land surface changes in summer warming. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Arctic Sea ice Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Antarctic The Antarctic Remote Sensing 8 3 167 |
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With recent, dramatic changes in Arctic sea ice and the Antarctic ice sheets, the importance of monitoring the climate of the polar regions has never been greater. While many individual global satellite products exist, the AVHRR Polar Pathfinder products provide a comprehensive set of variables that can be used to study trends and interactions within the Arctic and Antarctic climate systems. This paper describes the AVHRR Polar Pathfinder (APP), which is a fundamental climate data record that provides channel reflectances and brightness temperatures, and the AVHRR Polar Pathfinder—Extended (APP-x), which is a thematic climate data record that builds on APP to provide information on surface and cloud properties and radiative fluxes. Both datasets cover the period from 1982 through the present, twice daily, over both polar regions. APP-x has been used in the study of trends in surface properties, cloud cover, and radiative fluxes, interactions between clouds and sea ice, and the role of land surface changes in summer warming. |
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