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Title: 4 km NODC/RSMAS AVHRR Pathfinder v5.0 Seasonal Climatologies 1985-2001 (NCEI Accession 0001658)
Abstract: The 4 km Pathfinder effort at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) and the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) is an extension of and improvement on the sea surface temperature (SST) fields from the NOAA/NASA AVHRR Oceans 9km Pathfinder dataset. In this 4 km Pathfinder project, some important shortcomings in the original 9 km data have been corrected, and the entire time series has been reprocessed at the 4 km Global Area Coverage (GAC) level, the highest resolution possible globally. These SST fields have been averaged seasonally for inclusion in the U.S. Department of Interior's online National Atlas (http://www.nationalatlas.gov) and archived at the NODC.

The combined SST seasonal-climatologies are available in four Hierarchical Data Format (.HDF) data files and four corresponding graphics (climatologies) in GeoTIFF format. Although the data are represented using 16-bit in the .HDF files, 8-bit GeoTIFF files were developed to facilitate access and use of these data by the widest variety of users. As a result, the GeoTIFF representations of the .HDF files are not a complete representation of the data in the .HDF files. Separate day and night seasonal-climatologies used to generate the combined files are also included as .HDF files.
Date received: 20040810
Start date: 19850101
End date: 20011231
Seanames:
West boundary: -180
East boundary: 180
North boundary: 90
South boundary: -90
Observation types:
Instrument types:
Datatypes:
Submitter: Casey, Dr. Kenneth S.
Submitting institution: US DOC; NOAA; National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
Collecting institutions:
Contributing projects:
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Number of observations:
Supplementary information: Detailed information about these data are provided in the included Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) metadata record included with the data.

Geotiff_Information:
Version: 1
Key_Revision: 1.0

Tagged_Information:
ModelTiepointTag (2,3):
0 0 0
-180 90 0
ModelPixelScaleTag (1,3):

0.0439453 0.0439453 0
End_Of_Tags.

Keyed_Information:
GTModelTypeGeoKey (Short,1): ModelTypeGeographic
GTRasterTypeGeoKey (Short,1): RasterPixelIsArea
GTCitationGeoKey (Ascii,17): "LONG/LAT E005"
GeographicTypeGeoKey (Short,1): GCS_WGS_84
GeogAngularUnitsGeoKey (Short,1): Angular_Degree
ProjLinearUnitsGeoKey (Short,1): Linear_Meter
End_Of_Keys.
End_Of_Geotiff.

GCS: 4326/WGS 84
Datum: 6326/World Geodetic System 1984
Ellipsoid: 7030/WGS 84 (6378137.00,6356752.31)
Prime Meridian: 8901/Greenwich (0.000000/ 0d 0' 0.00"E)

Projection Linear Units: 9001/metre (1.000000m)
Corner Coordinates:
Upper Left (180d 0' 0.00"W, 90d 0' 0.00"N)
Lower Left (180d 0' 0.00"W, 90d 0' 0.00"S)
Upper Right (180d 0' 0.00"E, 90d 0' 0.00"N)
Lower Right (180d 0' 0.00"E, 90d 0' 0.00"S)
Center ( 0d 0' 0.00"E, 0d 0' 0.00"N)

In this accession, NCEI has archived multiple versions of these data. The latest (and best) version of these data has the largest version number.
Availability date: 20040831
Metadata version: 10
Keydate: 2004-08-10 18:59:12+00
Editdate: 2022-10-30 19:51:06+00