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Title:

NOAA/NASA Pathfinder Climate Data

Source:

NOAA/National Geophysical Data Center
325 Broadway, E/GC4, Dept. 993
Boulder, CO 80303-3328
phone: 303-497-6826
URL: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov

Description:

The data on this CD-ROM is from NOAA satellite instruments designed for weather applications. The collection includes several data sets: Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometers (AVHRR) land and sea (1/87-12/88); Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) precipitation and atmospheric moisture (8/87-11/88); TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS) coarse layer mean temperature, total cloud fraction, outgoing longwave radiation, ocean temperature, and related data (3/87-12/88).

The data on the CD-ROM are accessible from a variety of visualziation application software packages although GeoVu is recommended (Some executable versions of the GeoVu program are on on the CD-ROM). The CD-ROM also includes some experimental movie files can only be run on a PC.

Documentation

There is documentation on the CD-ROM.

Distribution

There is one (1) CD-ROM.