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plan optimal routing for yacht races, evaluate performance of ocean and numerical weather prediction models, and establish baselines for integrated ecosystem
assessments and marine spatial planning projects.
The improvements coming in Version 6 will enable an even greater range of
science and applications, enhance the compatibility of Pathfinder data with numerous other GHRSST-compliant data streams, and will result in a more accurate,
consistent, and useful climate data record for SST.
Acknowledgements The authors wish to thank their respective institutions for support during the
preparation of this manuscript and to Jorge Vazquez and Ed Armstrong of the NASA Physical
Oceanography DAAC for their long-term efforts to support the Pathfinder SST community of
users. Thanks also go to the many NASA and NOAA program and project managers who kept
the AVHRR Pathfinder SST Program alive over the course of the last two decades, including Eric
Lindstrom and John Bates. Finally, special thanks go to the last three Directors of the NOAA
National Oceanographic Data Center, most recently Margarita Conkright Gregg and before her,
Zdenka Willis and Lee Dantzler. All three deemed the Pathfinder effort sufficiently worthy to
contribute significant NODC resources over the years. Without these contributions, the history of
Pathfinder SST would have come to an end circa 2001 and would have fallen well short of making
the most of the available AVHRR record.
Appendix: Original Members of the AVHRR Pathfinder
Oceans SWG
Peter Cornillon, University of Rhode Island (Chair)
Robert Evans, University of Miami
Gene Feldman, NASA
Richard Legeckis, NOAA
Charles McClain, NASA
Richard W. Reynolds, NOAA
Charles Walton, NOAA
References
Casey KS, Cornillon P (1999) A comparison of satellite and in situ based sea surface temperature
climatologies. J Clim 12:1848–1863
Casey KS, Cornillon P (2001) Global and regional sea surface temperature trends. J Geophys Res
14(18):3801–3818
Casey KS, Evans R, Kilpatrick K, Kearns EJ, Brandon TB, Reynolds RW, Vazquez-Cuervo J
(2010) Toward the sea surface temperature climate data record from space: an improved
advanced very high resolution radiometer pathfinder dataset. J Clim (in preparation)
Cox C, Munk W (1954) Measurement of the roughness of the sea surface from photographs of the
sun’s glitter. J Opt Soc Am 44(11):838–850
Donlon C, Robinson I, Casey KS, Vazquez-Cuervo J, Armstrong E, Arino O, Gentemann C,
May D, LeBorgne P, Piollé JF, Barton I, Beggs H, Poulter DJS, Merchant CJ, Bingham A,
Heinz S, Harris A, Wick G, Emery B, Minnett P, Evans R, Llewellyn-Jones D, Mutlow C,
Reynolds RW, Kawamura H, Rayner N (2007) The global ocean data assimilation experiment
high-resolution sea surface temperature pilot project. Bull Am Meteorol Soc 88(8):1197–1213,
doi:10.1175/BAMS-88-8-1197
K.S. Casey et al.
plan optimal routing for yacht races, evaluate performance of ocean and numerical weather prediction models, and establish baselines for integrated ecosystem
assessments and marine spatial planning projects.
The improvements coming in Version 6 will enable an even greater range of
science and applications, enhance the compatibility of Pathfinder data with numerous other GHRSST-compliant data streams, and will result in a more accurate,
consistent, and useful climate data record for SST.
Acknowledgements The authors wish to thank their respective institutions for support during the
preparation of this manuscript and to Jorge Vazquez and Ed Armstrong of the NASA Physical
Oceanography DAAC for their long-term efforts to support the Pathfinder SST community of
users. Thanks also go to the many NASA and NOAA program and project managers who kept
the AVHRR Pathfinder SST Program alive over the course of the last two decades, including Eric
Lindstrom and John Bates. Finally, special thanks go to the last three Directors of the NOAA
National Oceanographic Data Center, most recently Margarita Conkright Gregg and before her,
Zdenka Willis and Lee Dantzler. All three deemed the Pathfinder effort sufficiently worthy to
contribute significant NODC resources over the years. Without these contributions, the history of
Pathfinder SST would have come to an end circa 2001 and would have fallen well short of making
the most of the available AVHRR record.
Appendix: Original Members of the AVHRR Pathfinder
Oceans SWG
Peter Cornillon, University of Rhode Island (Chair)
Robert Evans, University of Miami
Gene Feldman, NASA
Richard Legeckis, NOAA
Charles McClain, NASA
Richard W. Reynolds, NOAA
Charles Walton, NOAA
References
Casey KS, Cornillon P (1999) A comparison of satellite and in situ based sea surface temperature
climatologies. J Clim 12:1848–1863
Casey KS, Cornillon P (2001) Global and regional sea surface temperature trends. J Geophys Res
14(18):3801–3818
Casey KS, Evans R, Kilpatrick K, Kearns EJ, Brandon TB, Reynolds RW, Vazquez-Cuervo J
(2010) Toward the sea surface temperature climate data record from space: an improved
advanced very high resolution radiometer pathfinder dataset. J Clim (in preparation)
Cox C, Munk W (1954) Measurement of the roughness of the sea surface from photographs of the
sun’s glitter. J Opt Soc Am 44(11):838–850
Donlon C, Robinson I, Casey KS, Vazquez-Cuervo J, Armstrong E, Arino O, Gentemann C,
May D, LeBorgne P, Piollé JF, Barton I, Beggs H, Poulter DJS, Merchant CJ, Bingham A,
Heinz S, Harris A, Wick G, Emery B, Minnett P, Evans R, Llewellyn-Jones D, Mutlow C,
Reynolds RW, Kawamura H, Rayner N (2007) The global ocean data assimilation experiment
high-resolution sea surface temperature pilot project. Bull Am Meteorol Soc 88(8):1197–1213,
doi:10.1175/BAMS-88-8-1197