Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
RAL Space, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus
United Kingdom
CEDA
This dataset contains land surface temperatures (LSTs) and their uncertainty estimates from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer-3 (AVHRR-3) on NOAA-18. Satellite land surface temperatures are skin temperatures, which means, for example, the temperature of the ground surface in bare soil areas, the temperature of the canopy over forests, and a mix of the soil and leaf temperature over sparse vegetation. The skin temperature is an important variable when considering surface fluxes of, for instance, heat and water.Separate files are provided for temperatures retrieved from descending and ascending orbits. Descending and ascending equator crossing times were originally 01:30 and 13:30 local solar time but have been allowed to drift.This product includes a time correction which can be added to the observed LST to correct to a consistent overpass time.Per pixel uncertainty estimates are given in two forms, first, an estimate of the total uncertainty for the pixel and second, a breakdown of the uncertainty into components by correlation length. Also provided in the files, on a per pixel basis, are the observation time, the satellite viewing and solar geometry angles, a quality flag, and land cover class.The dataset coverage is global over the land surface. LSTs are provided on a global equal angle grid at a resolution of 0.05Â° longitude and 0.05Â° latitude. AVHRR achieves full Earth coverage twice per day. LSTs are not produced where clouds are present since under these circumstances the IR radiometer observes the cloud top which is usually much colder than the surface.Dataset coverage starts on 5th June 2005 and continues to 17th September 2020. There are minor interruptions (1-10 days) during satellite/instrument maintenance periods or instrument anomalies.The dataset was produced by the University of Leicester (UoL) and LSTs were retrieved using a two channel Generalised Split Window retrieval algorithm and data were processed in the UoL processing chain.
ESA Land Surface Temperature Climate Change Initiative (LST_cci): Daily land surface temperature from AVHRR-3 (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer-3) on NOAA-18 (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), level 3 collated (L3C) global product (2005-2020), version 1.50
Under the following licence appropriate use of these data may fall under unclassified use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
The AVHRR L1C FCDR data produced by the ESA CCI SST project were used as inputs. These data are processed by the University of Leicester: data are reformatted then processed to LSTs on an orbit swath, regridded to an equal angle grid, and collated to daily ascending and descending products at Level 3C.Contact: data.lst-cci@acri-st.fr
EARTH SCIENCE>LAND SURFACE>SURFACE THERMAL PROPERTIES>LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE
Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
land surface temperature
ESA
CCI
orthoimagery
Unavailable

EUMETSAT
Geoscientific Information
CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: water vapour feedback; A long-term UTH data record will be used in a wide range of process studies. Upper-tropospheric moisture is central to tracking, understanding, modelling and predicting convection and advection at low latitudes. UTH data can be combined synergistically with a wide range of other datasets such as cloud, precipitation and flow, whether derived from satellites, reanalyses or other sources, for model evaluation, variability analysis, predictability research, and perhaps most of all, physical process studies (e.g., stratospheric-tropospheric exchange and the variations in lower stratospheric water vapour.).
EARTH SCIENCE>ATMOSPHERE>ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR
EARTH SCIENCE>SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING>MICROWAVE
DMSP 5D-2/F11
DMSP 5D-2/F12
DMSP 5D-2/F14
METOP-A
METOP-B
METOP-C
MWHS
MHS
AMSU-B
Metop-A
Metop-B
Metop-C
Water Vapour
ECV
ATMS
SNPP

DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI
Geoscientific Information
NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) of Cloud Properties from AVHRR Pathfinder Atmospheres - Extended (PATMOS-x), Version 5.3. CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: PATMOS-x AVHRR supports: NCEI AVHRR Aerosol TCDR, Climate analysis, Climate model verification. OFFICIAL CITATION: Andrew K. Heidinger, Michael J. Foster, Andi Walther, Xuepeng Zhao, and NOAA CDR Program (2014): NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) of Cloud Properties from AVHRR Pathfinder Atmospheres - Extended (PATMOS-x), Version 5.3. [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. doi:10.7289/V5348HCK [access date]
NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) of Cloud Properties from AVHRR Pathfinder Atmospheres - Extended (PATMOS-x), Version 5.3. CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: PATMOS-x AVHRR supports: NCEI AVHRR Aerosol TCDR, Climate analysis, Climate model verification
EARTH SCIENCE>ATMOSPHERE>ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION>EARTH RADIATION BUDGET
METOP-A
METOP-B
TIROS-N
AVHRR
Metop-A
Metop-B
Earth Radiation Budget
ECV

DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI
Geoscientific Information
CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: PATMOS-x AVHRR supports: NCEI AVHRR Aerosol TCDR, Climate analysis, Climate model verification
EARTH SCIENCE>ATMOSPHERE>CLOUDS>CLOUD PROPERTIES
METOP-A
METOP-B
METOP-C
TIROS-N
AVHRR
Metop-A
Metop-B
Metop-C
Cloud Properties
ECV

EUMETSAT
CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: earth radiation budget studies climate research (monitoring and modelling), NMHSs & government agencies, private and public sector
EARTH SCIENCE>ATMOSPHERE>ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION>EARTH RADIATION BUDGET
METOP-C
TIROS-N
AVHRR
Metop-C
Earth Radiation Budget
SNPP
VIIRS

EUMETSAT
CLARA-A1. CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: global cloud climatologies climate research (monitoring and modelling), NMHSs & government agencies. OFFICIAL CITATION: Karlsson et al. 2012: CM SAF cLouds, Albedo and Radiation dataset from AVHRR data - Edition 1 - Monthly Means / Daily Means / Pentad Means / Monthly Histograms. Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring. DOI:10.5676/EUM_SAF_CM/CLARA_AVHRR/V001. http://dx.doi.org/10.5676/EUM_SAF_CM/CLARA_AVHRR/V001 publication reference: Karlsson et al. 2013: http://doi.org/10.5194/acpd-13-935-2013
CLARA-A1. CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: global cloud climatologies climate research (monitoring and modelling), NMHSs & government agencies
EARTH SCIENCE>ATMOSPHERE>CLOUDS>CLOUD PROPERTIES
Cloud Properties

ESA/ESRIN
CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: global cloud climatologies climate research (monitoring and modelling), NMHSs & government agencies, private and public sector
EARTH SCIENCE>ATMOSPHERE>CLOUDS>CLOUD PROPERTIES
Aqua
ENVISAT
Terra
MODIS
AATSR
AQUA
Envisat
TERRA
Cloud Properties

CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: global cloud climatologies climate research (monitoring and modelling), NMHSs & government agencies, private and public sector