AVHRR Pathfinder version 5.0 global 4km sea surface temperature (SST) cloud-screened monthly climatologies for 1985-2006 (NCEI Accession 0110657)

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This dataset contains a global, 4km monthly sea surface temperature climatology derived from harmonic analysis of the AVHRR Pathfinder Version 5.0 sea surface temperature time series data for 1985-2006. The climatology is available as 12 separate files, each representing one month in a climatological year. The files are in hdf format. In addition to climatological sea surface temperature, each file contains standard deviation. It only uses Pathfinder 5.0 data with a quality flag value of 4 or greater. It is available as 12 separate files in Hierarchical Data Format Version 4 (HDF4).

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describedByType	application/octet-steam
identifier	gov.noaa.nodc:0110657
isPartOf	NOAA Climate Data Record Program
issued	2013-08-08T00:00:00.000+00:00
landingPage	https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
language	[]
references	[ "https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/SeaSurfaceTemperature", "https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/climate-data-records", "https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8681-5_16", "https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/AVHRR_Pathfinder-NODC-v5.0_v5.1", "https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/AVHRR_Pathfinder-NODC-v5.0_v5.1-climatologies", "https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/AVHRR_Pathfinder-NODC-v5.0-climatologies", "https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/satellite/publications/podguides/TIROS-N%20thru%20N-14/" ]
rights	otherRestrictions
spatial	180.0,-90.0,-180.0,90.0
temporal	1985-01-01T00:00:00+00:00/2006-12-31T00:00:00+00:00