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With origins dating back to 1990, the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Pathfinder Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Program has experienced a 20-year history of reprocessing space-based observations to create accurate, consistent, climate data records. Both scientific and programmatic aspects of this history are reviewed and summarized in this chapter, along with a review of the currently available Pathfinder SST data. In addition, a look forward to the next generation of Pathfinder currently under development is presented.
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- Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
- Brightness Temperature Difference
- Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer Data
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The authors wish to thank their respective institutions for support during the preparation of this manuscript and to Jorge Vazquez and Ed Armstrong of the NASA Physical Oceanography DAAC for their long-term efforts to support the Pathfinder SST community of users. Thanks also go to the many NASA and NOAA program and project managers who kept the AVHRR Pathfinder SST Program alive over the course of the last two decades, including Eric Lindstrom and John Bates. Finally, special thanks go to the last three Directors of the NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center, most recently Margarita Conkright Gregg and before her, Zdenka Willis and Lee Dantzler. All three deemed the Pathfinder effort sufficiently worthy to contribute significant NODC resources over the years. Without these contributions, the history of Pathfinder SST would have come to an end circa 2001 and would have fallen well short of making the most of the available AVHRR record.
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Appendix: Original Members of the AVHRR Pathfinder Oceans SWG
Appendix: Original Members of the AVHRR Pathfinder Oceans SWG
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Peter Cornillon, University of Rhode Island (Chair)
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Robert Evans, University of Miami
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Gene Feldman, NASA
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Richard Legeckis, NOAA
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Charles McClain, NASA
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Richard W. Reynolds, NOAA
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Charles Walton, NOAA
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Casey, K.S., Brandon, T.B., Cornillon, P., Evans, R. (2010). The Past, Present, and Future of the AVHRR Pathfinder SST Program. In: Barale, V., Gower, J., Alberotanza, L. (eds) Oceanography from Space. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8681-5_16
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