Title
The AVHRR Polar Pathfinder Climate Data Records.
Abstract
With recent, dramatic changes in Arctic sea ice and the Antarctic ice sheets, the importance of monitoring the climate of the polar regions has never been greater. While many individual global satellite products exist, the AVHRR Polar Pathfinder products provide a comprehensive set of variables that can be used to study trends and interactions within the Arctic and Antarctic climate systems. This paper describes the AVHRR Polar Pathfinder (APP), which is a fundamental climate data record that provides channel reflectances and brightness temperatures, and the AVHRR Polar Pathfinder-Extended (APP-x), which is a thematic climate data record that builds on APP to provide information on surface and cloud properties and radiative fluxes. Both datasets cover the period from 1982 through the present, twice daily, over both polar regions. APP-x has been used in the study of trends in surface properties, cloud cover, and radiative fluxes, interactions between clouds and sea ice, and the role of land surface changes in summer warming.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.3390/rs8030167
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
Field
DocType
sea ice,radiation,climate data record,Antarctic,AVHRR,clouds,Arctic,Polar regions
Pathfinder,Satellite,Sea ice,Remote sensing,Ice sheet,Atmospheric sciences,Cryosphere,Geology,Climatology,Arctic ice pack,Arctic,Cloud cover
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
8
3
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jeffrey R. Key14011.74
Wang Xuanji231.94
Yinghui Liu332.63
richard dworak411.83
Aaron Letterly500.34