[1] This paper addresses practical issues related to the processing of 1-km National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR) data for producing a consistent, long-term time series of active fire locations over the Continental United States and Canada. The effects of the interannual changes in measured background temperatures, caused by the ...

Abstract We present a new version (v5.0) of the NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR) mid‐tropospheric temperature (TMT) time series. This data set uses backward‐merging approach to intercalibrate 16 satellite‐based microwave sounding records. The instrument observations included those from Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) during 1979–2004, Advanced Unit‐A (AMSU‐A) 1998–2017, ...

R. S. Gao, H. Telg, R. J. McLaughlin, S. J. Ciciora, L. A. Watts, M. S. Richardson, J. P. Schwarz, A. E. Perring, T. D. Thornberry, A. W. Rollins, M. Z. Markovic, T. S. Bates, J. E. Johnson, and D. W. Fahey NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, Colorado, USA; Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo...

drought is a major environmental disaster in many parts of the world. knowledge about the timing, severity and extentof drought can aid planning and decision-making. drought indices derived from in-situ meteorological data have coarsespatial and temporal resolutions, thus, obtaining a real-time drought condition over a large area is difficult. this studyused advanced very high resolution radiom...