AVHRR remotely sensed land surface temperature [Polar EASE grid 25km] Fairbanks, AK NSF EPSCoR Fire and Ice, period of dataset: January 1982 - December 2022

This dataset contains landsurface temperature collected by AVHRR satellites for the Arctic and processing of 2021-22 was partly supported as part of the AK NSF EPSCoR Fire and Ice program. The dataset is described as follows.
The AVHRR-derived land-surface-temperature (Ts) data were corrected through effective cloud-masking techniques and calibrated using in situ surface-temperature data including temperatures from the Surface Heat Budget in the Arctic experiment conducted in the central Arctic from October 1997 through September 1998 and 2 meter air temperatures from meteorological stations (Comiso J C 2003 Warming trends in the Arctic from clear sky satellite observations J. Clim. 16).
The data format is direct access binary with a spatial grid of 304 by 448 points, which is a 2-dimensional grid. Each data file contains monthly Ts data for January through December for a particular year. There are 41 data files, one for each year named as follows: ts_YYYY.bin, where YYYY goes from 1982 to 2022. There is a file named 'ssmi_lat.grd' that is 304 by 448 in size and provides the 2-D latitude value for each grid point. Similarly there is a file named 'ssmi_lon.grd' that provides the 2-D longitude value for each grid point. This data is on the polar EASE grid and is equal area of 25 kilometers.