AVHRR weekly global 18km by 18km daytime and nighttime MCSST (NASA/JPL) from 1982-1996.
Example: Yearly Averaged Nighttime MCSST in 1992 and 1993.





Multichannel sea surface temperature (MCSST) derived from TIROS-N/NOAA series AVHRR (McClain et al., 1985) by Otis Brown, University of Miami, was distributed by NASA/JPL. Global weekly daytime and nighttime composites from 1982 to 1997 with 18 km resolution have been archived and processed in several ways. Our area of interest in the tropical Pacific has been subset from original 2048*1024, 16 bits binary files. Monthly mean and anomaly SST with western Pacific warm pool (WPWP) centroid and eastern boundary have been calculated and analyzed in conjunction with Florida State University (FSU) wind stress data for the most recent three El Niño events (Yan et al., 1997). The newest 1997 El Niño is also being tracked.

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