ICAR Research Data Repository for Knowledge Management

Lake Surface Temperature, LV, raster, 7/2002 to 5/2016

Reference Information and Units:

GCS: SR-ORG:14 (http://spatialreference.org/)

Projection: Data has not been projected.

Pixel Size: ~4 kilometer (km) at the equator, 0.0174532925199433 degrees

Units: Celsius

File Naming Convention:

AYYYYDDDYYYYDDD, where A stands for the Aqua sensor platform, the first YYYYDDD represents the collection start year and Julian day, and the second YYYYDDD represents the collection end year and Julian day.

Data Origin:

Original dataset was downloaded from: http://oceandata.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/MODIS-Aqua/Mapped/Monthly/4km/sst

Sensor:

MODIS Aqua

Mapped worldwide monthly Modis Aqua 4km SSST was used to develop this product. Data values are averaged over the collection period to create monthly averages

Code:

for %A in (“C:\SST*.nc”) do gdal_translate –a_nodata 65535 -ot Float32 –unscale –a_srs “+init=epsg:4326” –co COMPRESS=DEFLATE –a_ullr -180 90 180 -90 HDF5:”%A”://sst %A.tiff

Data Development/Processing:

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