4 km AVHRR Pathfinder Project

The 4 km Pathfinder effort at NODC and the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmsopheric Science* (RSMAS) is an extension of and improvement on the sea surface temperature (SST) fields from the older NOAA/NASA AVHRR Oceans Pathfinder project. These new Version 5.0 data are being developed at RSMAS and NODC and distributed in partnership with the NASA Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC). In this 4 km Pathfinder project, some important shortcomings in the old 9 km data have been corrected, and the entire 1985-2001 time series reprocessed at the 4 km Global Area Coverage (GAC) level, the highest resolution possible globally. Formal Pathfinder data for the years 2003, 2005, and 2006 have also recently been added, and interim data for 2002, 2004, and 2007 through near present have also been generated. All of these data are available through NODC's ftp, http, and OPeNDAP access systems. Follow the links below to learn more about this effort.

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