The AVHRR Polar Pathfinder Climate Data Records

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• Journal Title:
  Remote Sensing
• Personal Author:
  Key, Jeffrey ; Wang, Xuanji ; Liu, Yinghui ; Dworak, Richard ; Letterly, Aaron
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service) ; STAR (Center for Satellite Applications and Research) ; CIMSS (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies)
• Description:
  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.
• Keywords:
  Antarctic Arctic AVHRR Climate Data Record Clouds Polar Regions Radiation Sea Ice
• Source:
  Remote Sens. 2016, 8(3), 167
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8030167
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Rights Information:
  CC BY
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:f0ea4fd83330e1f2e6af31fd1f6c1e4223b2eb3133d5df7a114f89f030e59b7d
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  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/41054/noaa_41054_DS1.pdf
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