Clark Labs Releases Global Monthly Data of....

18 August 2010, 3:58am

Clark Labs Releases Global Monthly Data of Precipitation and Sea Surface Temperature for its Data Archive Series

Clark Labs is pleased to announce the release of another CD in their Global Data Archive Series. This new CD includes monthly global precipitation and sea surface temperature data, critical for climate monitoring and research.

The CD includes the following datasets, preprocessed for immediate use within the IDRISI GIS and Image Processing software:

- NOAA Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Monthly Global Precipitation Data from January 1979 - April 2009

- NASA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Monthly Global Precipitation Data from January 1998 - April 2010

- NOAA Global Optimum Interpolation (OI) Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Analysis from January 1982 - April 2010

For those analyzing earth trends and dynamics with long-term image series analysis, the Global Data Archive Series datasets are extremely valuable. Although most of the datasets are publicly available and typically free, for a nominal cost ($30 per volume), the significant effort involved in downloading monthly files, typically at sizes of over 100 MBs, for multiple years, can be spent on the analysis itself.

This data archive, as well as all others in the series, is particularly well suited for input for the Earth Trends Modeler application within the IDRISI software. Earth Trends Modeler, an application for the exploration and analysis of image time series data, includes a coordinated suite of data mining tools and a variety of techniques for the extraction of global trends and the impacts of climate change. This new data archive can immediately be used within Earth Trends Modeler.

The CD also includes monthly atmospheric temperature data from Remote Sensing System (RSS), processed from the Microwave and Advanced Microwave Sounding Units on NOAA polar-orbiting platforms and in a 2.5 degree grid.

To purchase the data archive, and for more information, visit www.clarklabs.org.

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