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    • TOVS Pathfinder Path-P Daily and Monthly Polar Gridded Atmospheric Parameters, Version 1

    Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

    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 monthly files are available for the Northern Hemisphere only from 60 degrees poleward at 100 km gridded spatial resolution in EASE-Grid. Daily and monthly Northern Hemisphere data are available from January 1979 through current processing, and daily Southern Hemisphere data are available from July 1979 through current processing. Data were created from a modified version of the Improved Initialization Inversion Algorithm (3I) (Chedin et al. 1985), a physical-statistical retrieval method improved for use in identifying geophysical variables in snow- and ice-covered areas (Francis 1994).

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
    Publisher NASA NSIDC DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1386246923-NSIDCV0
    Data First Published 1979-01-01
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2005-12-31
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Citation TOVS Pathfinder Path-P Daily and Monthly Polar Gridded Atmospheric Parameters, Version 1. Version 1. Archived by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Government, NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/7L44Z9QVXUNL.
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    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/7L44Z9QVXUNL
    Metadata Type geospatial
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    Program Code 026:001
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    Source Hash cb32bcc3f58f2a7a77e0f096f1ac7987ff562900d1ebbcc39cc9070517f85f2e
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    Temporal 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z/2005-12-31T23:59:59.999Z

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