FIDUCEO: Fundamental Climate Data Record of recalibrated brightness temperatures for the Advanced Very-High-Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) with ten member ensemble of perturbed level1 data, 2006 - 2016, v1.0

This Fundamental Climate Data Record (FDCR) ensemble product contains both recalibrated AVHRR/3 MetOp-A Radiance/Brightness Temperature data with associated metrologically traceable uncertainties in the FIDUCEO FCDR format. It also contains files containing an Ensemble dataset consisting of perturbations to the associated FIDUCEO FCDR radiances and brightness temperatures. By applying the 10 perturbations to the baseline FCDR radiances and brightness temperatures a user is able to generate 10 sets of new measurements whose variance capture the associated underlying uncertainty distributions contained in the Easy FCDR itself.

The FIDelity and Uncertainty in Climate data records from Earth Observations (FIDUCEO) project AVHRR FCDR improves on existing AVHRR level-1B: in the infrared the calibration has been improved with a measurement function approach such that the data is of better quality (noise has been reduced, outliers have been filtered) the metrologically traceable uncertainties have been derived together with their associated effects, cross-channel correlations and long-term correlation structures have now been calculated from the processed data and are being understood and used to improve data quality and consistency. For the Ensemble product the sensors have been calibrated against the Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR) sensor with additional corrections to calibration parameters which make the data better able to derive sea surface temperature estimates that are consistent with theInternational Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS) drifting buoy network. Because the Ensemble has been tuned for Sea Surface Temperature retrieval it should only be used over ocean scenes.

Date (Publication): 2019-11-08T17:25:21

Date (Creation): 2019-11-08T17:25:21

Identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/631e1f22d1754b78b5a64a3d66f4ce73

Identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 631e1f22d1754b78b5a64a3d66f4ce73

Author

Unavailable - Mittaz, J. ( author )

Author

Unavailable - Merchant, Christopher J. ( author )

Author

Unavailable - Holl, Gerrit ( author )

Author

Unavailable - Bulgin, C.E. ( author )

Author

Unavailable - Taylor, Michael ( author )

Author

Unavailable - Mollard, James ( author )

Custodian

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

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Owner

FIDUCEO Project consortium - data_owner

Distributor

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - distributor

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

01235446432

Principal investigator

Unavailable - Merchant, Christopher J. ( principal_investigator )

pointofContact

Unavailable - Merchant, Christopher J. ( point_of_contact )

Publisher

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - publisher

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

01235446432

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

FIDUCEO. AVHRR
ensemble
uncertainty

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

orthoimagery

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Under the following licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Metadata language: English

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Begin date: 2006-11-21T00:00:00

End date: 2016-12-31T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

The data files are cf compliant NetCDF version 4 . See file format specification in the documentation for further information ()

Distributor

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - Data Center Contact

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

01235446432

OnLine resource: CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource

OnLine resource: DOWNLOAD
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OnLine resource: FIDUCEO Project Website
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OnLine resource: FIDUCEO Training Materials
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OnLine resource: FIDUCEO User Tools
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OnLine resource: Metrology Cookbook
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OnLine resource: Principal behind FIDUCEO FCDR effects table
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OnLine resource: Product User Guide – Ensemble Sea and Lake Surface Temperature
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OnLine resource: Scientific basis for FDCRs
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OnLine resource: FIDUCEO project: AVHRR Ensemble FCDR release note
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OnLine resource: FIDUCEO CDR/FCDR Format Specification
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Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: Supplied to CEDA for archival by Claire Bulgin of the University of Reading on behalf of the H2020 FIDUCEO project

File identifier: 631e1f22d1754b78b5a64a3d66f4ce73 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Parent identifier: FIDUCEO: Collection of Climate data records from Earth Observations Satellites from the FIDUCEO (Fidelity and uncertainty in climate data records from Earth Observations) project f6f424ff804b434685e2913e5bd2f3b0

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2024-09-02T23:32:56

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Point of contact

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

01235446432

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