***************************************************************** Journal for accession number: 0043746 Created on: 2022-01-08 18:53:54 UTC By: National Centers for Environmental Information Source: An informational file was created by NODC and/or NCEI staff and programmatically added to the about/ directory of this accession. Version: 2.3 Actions: Informational files were updated in the about/ directory of this accession. Files: about/ This directory contains files created by NCEI staff and processing, including 'negotiable' information between NCEI staff and the data provider. 0043746_preview.jpg - Preview graphic for these data. data/0-data/ This directory contains the data files as submitted to NCEI. The following is a summary of the differences between the about/ files in the previous version of this accession and this version: Total number of files: 836 Number of new files: 1 Number of changed files: 0 Number of files removed: 0 Number of files moved or renamed: 0 New files: 0043746_preview.jpg ***************************************************************** Journal for accession number: 0043746 Created on: 2008-07-29 17:18:51 +0000 By: Sheri Phillips,SSMC3 4701,7133277 127 Source: 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. Twice-daily SST and related parameters from 1985-2001 have been produced, as well as temporal averages for 5-day, 7-day, 8-day, monthly, and yearly periods. Low-resolution .JPEG browse images are available for each dataset. These data products and accompanying Federal Geophysical Data Committee (FGDC) metadata records were produced and archived for distribution at the NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center in 2004. The collection was updated in 2008 to include data for 2002-2006, and again in 2011 to include value-added, cloud-screened products in HDF4. These products contain daytime, nighttime, and day-night averaged data of quality flags 4-7 only, as well as standard deviation and pixel count information. They have been produced from the original Pathfinder Version 5 data by NODC for Daily, 5-day, 7-day, and monthly temporal averages at 4km and one degree spatial resolution, as well as five degree spatial resolution for monthly products.