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    • SST, Pathfinder Ver 5.2 (L3C), Night, Global, 0.0417°, 1981-2012, Science Quality (1 Day Composite)

    Metadata Updated: June 10, 2023

    Nighttime measurements from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Pathfinder Version 5.2 L3-Collated (L3C) sea surface temperature. This netCDF-4 file contains sea surface temperature (SST) data produced as part of the AVHRR Pathfinder SST Project. These data were created using Version 5.2 of the Pathfinder algorithm and the file is nearly but not completely compliant with the Global High-Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) Data Specifications V2.0 (GDS2). The file does not encode time according to the GDS2 specifications, and the sses_bias and sses_standard_deviation variables are empty. Full compliance with GDS2 specifications will be achieved in the future Pathfinder Version 6. These data were created as a partnership between the University of Miami and the US NOAA/National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC).

    2014-02-11 Files downloaded from https://data.nodc.noaa.gov/pathfinder/Version5.2 to NOAA NMFS SWFSC ERD by erd.data@noaa.gov . Aggregated with reference times from the dates in the file names. Removed other, misleading time values from the file names and the data files. Removed empty sses_bias and sses_standard_deviation variables. Fixed the incorrect add_offset and scale_factor for aerosol_dynamic_indicator in file from 1981 through 2000.

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    Metadata Date September 4, 2022
    Metadata Created Date December 19, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date June 10, 2023
    Reference Date(s) April 26, 2013 (creation)
    Frequency Of Update

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Date September 4, 2022
    Metadata Created Date December 19, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date June 10, 2023
    Reference Date(s) April 26, 2013 (creation)
    Responsible Party NOAA NCEI (Point of Contact)
    Contact Email
    Guid nodcPH2sstn1day
    Access Constraints
    Bbox East Long 179.9792
    Bbox North Lat 89.97918
    Bbox South Lat -89.97916
    Bbox West Long -179.9792
    Coupled Resource [{"title": [], "href": ["#DataIdentification"], "uuid": []}, {"title": [], "href": ["#DataIdentification"], "uuid": []}, {"title": [], "href": ["#DataIdentification"], "uuid": []}]
    Frequency Of Update
    Harvest Object Id 66b68599-99ca-4cda-99de-a59da0547f5c
    Harvest Source Id 817069b7-5f4e-4664-9e6b-615af3dfcf2d
    Harvest Source Title Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory
    Licence
    Lineage smigen_both ifile=2012365.b4kd1-pf5ap-n19-sst.hdf ofile=2012365.i4kd1-pf5ap-n19-sst.hdf prod=sst datamin=-3.0 datamax=40.0 precision=I projection=RECT resolution=4km gap_fill=2 ; ./hdf2nc_PFV52_L3C.x -v ./Data_PFV52/PFV52_HDF/2012/2012365.i4kd1-pf5ap-n19-sst.hdf 2014-02-11 Files downloaded from https://data.nodc.noaa.gov/pathfinder/Version5.2 to NOAA NMFS SWFSC ERD by erd.data@noaa.gov . Aggregated with reference times from the dates in the file names. Removed other, misleading time values from the file names and the data files. Removed empty sses_bias and sses_standard_deviation variables. Fixed the incorrect add_offset and scale_factor for aerosol_dynamic_indicator in file from 1981 through 2000.
    Metadata Language eng
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-179.9792, -89.97916], [179.9792, -89.97916], [179.9792, 89.97918], [-179.9792, 89.97918], [-179.9792, -89.97916]]]}
    Progress
    Spatial Data Service Type ERDDAP griddap
    Spatial Reference System
    Spatial Harvester True
    Temporal Extent Begin 1981-11-01T12:00:00Z
    Temporal Extent End 2012-12-31T12:00:00Z

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