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NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) of AVHRR Surface Reflectance, Version 5

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: February 10, 2026 | Last Modified: 2019-07-11T00:00:00.000+00:00
This dataset contains gridded daily surface reflectance and brightness temperatures derived from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) sensors onboard eight NOAA polar orbiting satellites: NOAA-7, -9, -11, -14, -16, -17, -18 and -19. Surface reflectance from AVHRR channels 1 and 2 (at 640 and 860 nm) are a NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR). The dataset spans from 1981 to 2013, and was processed from the AVHRR Global Area Coverage (GAC) Level 1b dataset. AVHRR GAC observations are packaged into data arrays with latitude and longitude dimensions of 3600 x 7200 covering the globe at 0.05 degree spatial resolution. This dataset is one of the Land Surface CDR Version 5 products produced by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and the University of Maryland (UMD). Other Land Surface CDR products include the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR). Scientific improvements for Version 5 include updating to higher resolution ancillary data and more accurate approaches for BRDF correction, calibration, compositing, and QA. Version 5 also corrects the data for known errors in time, latitude, and longitude variables, as well as improves the global and variable attribute definitions. The dataset is in the netCDF-4 file format following ACDD and CF Conventions. The dataset is accompanied by algorithm documentation, data flow diagram and source code for the NOAA CDR Program.

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Earth Science > Land Surface > Surface Radiative Properties > Reflectance Earth Science > Spectral/Engineering > Infrared Wavelengths > Brightness Temperature Geographic Region > Global Land NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) Program NOAA OneStop Project AVHRR > Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer NOAA-7 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-7 NOAA-9 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-9 NOAA-11 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-11 NOAA-14 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-14 NOAA-16 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-16 NOAA-17 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-17 NOAA-18 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-18 NOAA-19 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-19 DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC > National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce NASA/GSFC > Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA UMD > University of Maryland

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identifier gov.noaa.ncdc:C01557
issued 2019-07-11T00:00:00.000+00:00
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  "Earth Science > Spectral/Engineering > Infrared Wavelengths > Brightness Temperature",
  "Geographic Region > Global Land",
  "NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) Program",
  "NOAA OneStop Project",
  "AVHRR > Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer",
  "NOAA-7 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-7",
  "NOAA-9 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-9",
  "NOAA-11 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-11",
  "NOAA-14 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-14",
  "NOAA-16 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-16",
  "NOAA-17 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-17",
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  "NOAA-19 > National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-19",
  "DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce",
  "DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC > National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce",
  "NASA/GSFC > Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA",
  "UMD > University of Maryland"
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license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
modified 2019-07-11T00:00:00.000+00:00
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temporal 1981-06-24T00:00:00+00:00/2013-12-31T00:00:00+00:00
title NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) of AVHRR Surface Reflectance, Version 5

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