National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service(NESDIS)
Global Monthly AVHRR Climatology Over Land
Clear-sky top-of-the-atmosphere variables
by Garik Gutman, Dan Tarpley, Aleksandr Ignatov, NOAA/NESDIS Satellite Research Laboratory, Camp Springs, Maryland
and Steve Olson, Research and Data Systems Corporation, Greenbelt, Maryland.
This is Volume 3 in the Global Change Data Base:
Editor David Hastings, NOAA/NESDIS National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder, Colorado
This is Disc 2 of a two CD-ROM series. It presents ancillary data
to use with the Monthly Climatological Data contained on Disc 1, derived
from NOAA's Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer. The data on Disc 1
were produced by the Satellite Research Laboratory; Office of Research
and Applications; National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information
Service; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. A re-registered
selection of those data are also contained
on this Disc 2.
In the hypertext links below, click on the boldface word to the left, to get a listing
of the named directory on the CD-ROM. Click on the link in normal (not boldface) type, to get a "readme"
file on the contents of that directory. Some of the links get you to more substantial
materials. Those links are noted in bold italics below...
The Directory structure is:
(root directory)
This file
A more detailed overview of this CD-ROM
\data raster data directory
\document documentation for the data
- avhrclrg Satellite Research Laboratory data documentation (as Word Perfect, Word Star, Word, ASCII, and HTML (substantial manuscript) files)
- ncillary a ncillary data directory.
- Bailey Ecoregions information
- FAO Soils (orig. 2-minute grid) information
- Hastings & Amano Percentage of Urban Development
- Leemans & Cramer IIASA Mean Monthly Values of Temperature, Precipitation, and cloudiness on a Global Grid
- Leemans Holdridge Life Zones Classifications
- Lerner, Matthews and Fung Methane Emissions from Animals (camels, caribou, dairy & non-dairy cattle, dairy cows, goats, horses, non-dairy cattle, pigs, sheep, and water buffalo)
- Matthews and Fung Global Distribution, Characterictics and Methane Emissions fron Natural Wetlands
- Legates & Willmott Annual Corrected Cumulative Precipitation
- Matthews Vegetation, Land Use, and Seasonal Albedo
- Olson World Ecosystems
- Staub and Rosenzweig Zobler Soil area
- TerrainBase digital elevation model
- Wilson & Henderson-Sellers Global Land Cover & Soils Data for GCM's
- Webb, Rosenzweig & Levine Global Particle Size Properties
\software Selected NOAA public domain utilities for data mangement
Disc 1 of this set contains the original climatologies (the featured data in this collection),
documentation thereon, and ancillary vector files showing coastlines, rivers, and other features.
These CD-ROMs are distributed by the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
National Geophysical Data Center
325 Broadway
Boulder CO 80303
internet: info@ngdc.noaa.gov
phone: +1-303-497-6521
fax: +1-303-497-6513
Please email us your suggestions on this data base or presentation Note! You need to be connected to the World Wide Web to use this email facility!:
David Hastings
World Data Center-A, NOAA National Geophysical Data Center
303-497-6729 or
dhastings@ngdc.noaa.gov
file://aareadme.htm
Revised: 25 February 1997
