Long-term, remote-sensing-based climate data records (CDRs) are highly dependent on having consistent, wellcalibrated satellite instrument measurements of the Earth’s radiant energy. Therefore, by making historical satellite calibrations consistent with those of today’s imagers, the Earth-observing community can benefit from a CDR that spans a minimum of 30 years. Most operational meteorologica...

Abstract Alaska’s Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta (YKD) is among the Arctic’s warmest, most biologically productive regions, but regional decline of normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) has been a striking feature spaceborne Advanced High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) observations since 1982. This contrast with “greening” prevalent elsewhere in low Arctic raises questions concerning climatic and...

Application of the multifractal microcanonical formalism to the detection of fire plumes in NOAA–AVHRR data H. Yahia , A. Turiel , N. Chrysoulakis , J. Grazzini , P. Prastacos & I. Herlin To cite this article: H. Yahia , A. Turiel , N. Chrysoulakis , J. Grazzini , P. Prastacos & I. Herlin (2008) Application of the multifractal microcanonical formalism to the detection of fire plumes in NOAA–AVH...

A significant degradation in the responsivity of the AVHRR radiometers aboard the NOAA satellite series, affects the index vegetation (NDVI), which is an important source of information for monitoring vegetation conditions on regional and global scales. Many studies have been carried out which use the viewing Earth calibration approach in order to provide accurate calibration correction coeffic...

[1] A number of global aerosol products of varying quality, strengths, and weaknesses have been generated. Presented here are synthetic analyses with regard to the quality, compatibility, and synergy of two long-term global (1983–2000) aerosol products derived from the advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR) and the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS). Four essential aerosol parame...

In response to its users’ needs, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) initiated reanalysis (RAN) of the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Global Area Coverage (GAC; 4 km) sea surface temperature (SST) data employing its Advanced Clear Sky Processor for Oceans (ACSPO) retrieval system. Initially, AVHRR/3 data from five NOAA and two Metop satellites from 2002 ...

A technique has been developed to detect and map fire growth by using a multitemporal multispectral analysis of AVHRR images. The application of this technique allows fire growth nwnitoring. The technique is mainly based on comparison of brightness temperature differences and AVHRR Channels 3 and 4 for successive images. It provides a rapid evaluation of the area affected by the fire but suppre...

[1] We investigate the modulation of aerosols by the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) using multiple, global satellite aerosol products: aerosol index (AI) from the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) on Nimbus-7, and aerosol optical thickness (AOT) from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on Terra and Aqua and the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) on NOA...

Using the data gathered from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) 0.63 and 3.7 μm channels, an algorithm for the inference of cirrus cloud optical depth and mean effective size has been developed for the first time. This scheme is based on the correlation between the 3.7 μm (total) and 0.63 μm radiances that is constructed from radiative transfer calculations involving ice cryst...

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. Th...