45 datasets

NASA Earthdata CMR2025 · collection

This dataset contains Daily Snow Cover Fraction (snow on ground) from AVHRR, produced by the Snow project of the ESA Climate Change Initiative programme. Snow cover fraction on ground (SCFG) indicates the area of snow observed from space over land surfaces, in forested areas corrected for the transmissivity of the forest canopy. The SCFG is given in percentage (%) per pixel. The global SCFG produc

NASA Earthdata CMR2025 · collection

This dataset contains Daily Snow Cover Fraction of viewable snow from AVHRR, produced by the Snow project of the ESA Climate Change Initiative programme. Snow cover fraction viewable (SCFV) indicates the area of snow viewable from space over land surfaces. In forested areas this refers to snow viewable on top of the forest canopy. The SCFV is given in percentage (%) per pixel. The global SCFV prod

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2023 · Image data

The Operational Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Ice Analysis Reprocessed (OSTIA-REP) is a GHRSST reprocessed Level-4 sea surface temperature and ice-concentration analysis produced by the UK Met Office (UKMO) using optimal interpolation (OI) on a global 0.05 degree grid. It is a sister product of the Near Real Time version (OSTIA-NRT), but incorporates satellite data from over 25 different SST sen

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2020 · Image data

The MERRA-2 Gridded Innovations and Observations (GIO) dataset provides assimilated observations and key statistics generated during observational data assimilation. GIO data are created by binning observations and innovations onto grids consistent with MERRA-2 specifications and storing them in NetCDF format for convenient access. This dataset serves multiple purposes: it shows which data was ass

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2020 · Image data

The MERRA-2 Gridded Innovations and Observations (GIO) dataset provides assimilated observations and key statistics generated during observational data assimilation. GIO data are created by binning observations and innovations onto grids consistent with MERRA-2 specifications and storing them in NetCDF format for convenient access. This dataset serves multiple purposes: it shows which data was ass

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2020 · Image data

The MERRA-2 Gridded Innovations and Observations (GIO) dataset provides assimilated observations and key statistics generated during observational data assimilation. GIO data are created by binning observations and innovations onto grids consistent with MERRA-2 specifications and storing them in NetCDF format for convenient access. This dataset serves multiple purposes: it shows which data was ass

NASA Earthdata CMR2020 · collection

Level-1B description This collection is composed of AVHRR L1B products (1.1 km) reprocessed from the NOAA POES and Metop AVHRR sensors data acquired at the University of Dundee and University of Bern ground stations and from the ESA and University of Bern data historical archive. The product format is the NOAA AVHRR Level 1B that combines the AVHRR data from the HRPT stream with ancillary informat

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2018 · Array · NetCDF

The AMSU/MSU Lowstratosphere Day/Month Temperature Anomalies and Annual Cycle V6 dataset consists of temperature anomalies and annual cycle temperatures derived from the Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) and the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A) radiance data since January 1978. All products are derived for the lower stratosphere. The dataset begins on January 1, 1978 and is still currently

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2018 · Array · NetCDF

The AMSU/MSU Lowtroposphere Day/Month Temperature Anomalies and Annual Cycle V6 dataset consists of temperature anomalies and annual cycle temperatures derived from the Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) and the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A) radiance data since January 1978. All products are derived for the lower troposphere. The dataset begins on January 1, 1978 and is still currently on

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2018 · Array · NetCDF

The AMSU/MSU Midtroposphere Day/Month Temperature Anomalies and Annual Cycle V6 dataset consists of temperature anomalies and annual cycle temperatures derived from the Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) and the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A) radiance data since January 1978. All products are derived for the mid-troposphere. The dataset begins on January 1, 1978 and is still currently ongo

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2018 · Array · NetCDF

The AMSU/MSU Tropopause Day/Month Temperature Anomalies and Annual Cycle V6 dataset consists of temperature anomalies and annual cycle temperatures derived from the Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) and the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A) radiance data since January 1978. All products are derived for the tropopause. The dataset begins on January 1, 1978 and is still currently ongoing. The

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2018 · Image data

This dataset (TOVSAMNE) contains the TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS) level 3 geophysical parameters derived using data from NOAA-8 and the physical retrieval method of Susskind et al. (1984) and processed by the Satellite Data Utilization Office of the Goddard Laboratory for Atmospheres at NASA/GSFC. This method, which is hydrodynamic model- and a priori data-dependent, is designated as

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2003 · Astronomical catalogue

This data set consists of AVHRR imagery selected from hard copy 'quick look' images to provide the best coverage possible over the Arctic approximately every three days for a three-year period. Level-1B data from NOAA/SDSD have been calibrated and mapped to earth locations, then gridded to 1 km pixels on a basin scale to the polar stereographic projection. The projection is similar to that used by

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2002 · Astronomical catalogue

ISCCP_DX_1 is the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) Stage DX Pixel Level Cloud Product - Revised Algorithm in Binary Format data set. It contains 3-hourly, 30 KM satellite image projection data from various polar and geostationary satellites. Pixel Level Cloud Product contents include calibrated radiances, cloud detection results, and cloud and surface properties from radia

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal2000 · Astronomical catalogue

ISCCP_TOVS_NAT_1 is the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS) data set in the Native Data Format. It is a daily, global description of the ozone, temperature, and humidity distributions obtained from the analysis of data from the TOVS system. The TOVS data set contents include atmosphere and surface data including temperature structure,

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal1999 · Astronomical catalogue

ISCCP_ICESNOW_NAT_1 is the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) Ice Snow Product in Native Data Format data set. It is a merged product containing separate snow and sea ice data sets. The values given are fractional coverage for 5-day intervals. Data collection for this data set is complete. The data were collected on a global equal-area grid with the cell area equivalent to 1

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal1999 · Astronomical catalogue

The ISCCP_B3_NAT data is the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) Stage B3 Reduced Radiances in Native Format data product. This is the original radiance data, sampled to 30 Km and 3-hour spacing. Data collection for this product is complete and was collected using several instruments on multiple platforms, please see the instrument and platform list of this record for a compr

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal1999 · Array · HDF5

The TIROS-N Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS) Polar Pathfinder (Path-P) data set consists of gridded daily and monthly Arctic and Antarctic atmospheric data derived from various NOAA satellites. TOVS Path-P daily files are available for the Northern and Southern Hemispheres from 60 degrees poleward at 100 km gridded spatial resolution in an Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid (EASE-Grid). TOVS Path-P

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal1999 · Astronomical catalogue

The ISCCP_D2 data set contains monthly, 280 KM equal-area grid data from various polar and geostationary satellites. Climatological Summary Product contents contain monthly average of D1 quantities including mean diurnal cycle, distribution and properties of total cloudiness and cloud types. The International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP), the first project of the World Climate Resea

NASA Earthdata CMR + NASA Data Portal1999 · Astronomical catalogue

ISCCP_D1_1 is the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) Stage D1 3-Hourly Cloud Products - Revised Algorithm data set in Hierarchical Data Format. This data set contains 3-hourly, 280 KM equal-area grid data from various polar and geostationary satellites. The Gridded Cloud Product contents are spatial averages of DX quantities and statistical summaries, including properties of

NASA Earthdata CMRcollection

NOAA AVHRR cloud-free summer images from 1979 to 1985 (NOAA 6-9) in channels 1, 2 and 4 with a resolution of 1.1km were used to construct this mosaic. The categories of major vegetation, from polar through subtropical to desert, are visible. This mosaic is often used as a backdrop for other projects. The processed mosaic is available as a digital product on CCT, Exabyte or CD-ROM, or as positive o

NASA Earthdata CMRcollection

On the background of these requirements for sensor calibration, intercalibration and product validation, the subgroup on Calibration and Validation of the Committee on Earth Observing System (CEOS) formulated the following recommendation during the plenary session held in China at the end of 2004, with the goal of setting-up and operating an internet based system to provide sensor data, protocols

NASA Earthdata CMRcollection

Data sets consist of real time satellite data collected and transmitted while the satellite was in radio contact with the receiving station as well as data that had been recorded by the satellite stored on board and transmitted at a later time. The Data Collection and Location System, (DCS), is designed to obtain environmental data and location from fixed or moving platforms. Telemetry Data: The t

NASA Earthdata CMRcollection

General information about NOAA-AVHRR can be queried by interested users in the category 'Sensor' and 'Source'. Some basic information is given hereafter. The Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) onboard NOAA 6, 8, 10 and TIROS-N measured in four spectral bands, while the NOAA 7, 9 and 11 are measured in 5 bands. The primary objective of the AVHRR instrument is to provide cloud top and

NASA Earthdata CMRcollection

The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has been operating its Advanced Tiros-N (ATN) series of satellites since October 1978. Carrying the Tiros Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS), a low-data-rate atmospheric sounding package, and the Advanced Very-High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), these satellites were designed primarily for meteorological applications, but the AVHRR