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Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Level 2 Enterprise Polar Winds

The Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer 3 (AVHRR/3) onboard MetOp-C is a cross track scanner that senses the Earth's radiation via six channels ranging from 0.58 to 12.5 microns. These channels cover the visible (VIS), near-infrared (NIR), shortwave-infrared (SWIR), medium-wave-infrared (MWIR), and thermal-infrared (TIR) spectral regions. AVHRR/3 provides day and night imaging of land, water and clouds, and measures sea surface temperature, ice, snow and vegetation cover. The MetOp-C/AVHRR polar wind product provide high-latitude wind field data by tracking cloud and water vapor features detected in the infrared window and water vapor bands. This product covers the high-latitude regions (Arctic and Antarctica) poleward of about 65 degrees latitude at a resolution of 1 km. The data are produced by the NOAA Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) and are distributed by the Comprehensive Large Array-Data Stewardship System (CLASS) as full orbit 101 minute files in the netCDF-4 file format with attributes included.

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