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.

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Date (Publication)
2019-11-08T17:25:21
Date (Creation)
2019-11-08T17:25:21
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https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/631e1f22d1754b78b5a64a3d66f4ce73
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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 631e1f22d1754b78b5a64a3d66f4ce73
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Mittaz, J.

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Merchant, Christopher J.

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Holl, Gerrit

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Bulgin, C.E.

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Taylor, Michael

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Mollard, James

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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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FIDUCEO Project consortium

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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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Merchant, Christopher J.

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Merchant, Christopher J.

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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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Not planned
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Dataset
Keywords

  • FIDUCEO. AVHRR

  • ensemble

  • uncertainty

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • orthoimagery
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Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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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.
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  • Imagery base maps earth cover
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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
Name Version

The data files are cf compliant NetCDF version 4 . See file format specification in the documentation for further information
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

support@ceda.ac.uk

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OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/631e1f22d1754b78b5a64a3d66f4ce73

CEDA Data Catalogue Page
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/fiduceo/data/fcdr/avhrr/v1.00/ensemble/metopa/

DOWNLOAD
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Protocol Linkage Name
http://www.fiduceo.eu/

FIDUCEO Project Website
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Protocol Linkage Name
http://www.fiduceo.eu/tutorials-menu

FIDUCEO Training Materials
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Protocol Linkage Name
https://github.com/FIDUCEO/USER_TOOLS

FIDUCEO User Tools
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Protocol Linkage Name
https://zenodo.org/record/7357153

Metrology Cookbook
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Protocol Linkage Name
https://zenodo.org/record/7357165

Principal behind FIDUCEO FCDR effects table
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://zenodo.org/record/7357182

Product User Guide – Ensemble Sea and Lake Surface Temperature
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Protocol Linkage Name
https://zenodo.org/record/7357188

Scientific basis for FDCRs
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Protocol Linkage Name
https://zenodo.org/record/7357243

FIDUCEO project: AVHRR Ensemble FCDR release note
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Protocol Linkage Name
https://zenodo.org/record/7357247

FIDUCEO CDR/FCDR Format Specification
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Title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

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

Metadata

File identifier
631e1f22d1754b78b5a64a3d66f4ce73 XML
Metadata language
English
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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
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Dataset
Date stamp
2026-03-11T03:18:46
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

support@ceda.ac.uk

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

orthoimagery


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