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Global Attributes:	Conventions: CF-1.0 creator_name: Matthew Oliver creator_email: moliver@udel.edu institution: Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observation Laboratory (RU-COOL) http://rucool.marine.rutgers.edu url: http://marine.rutgers.edu/cool/sat_data source: satellite radiometer observation NOAA/POES AVHRR instrument groundstation: RU-COOL L-band receiver at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA summary: MCSST calculation and image navigation by TeraScan software; Regridded to Mercator lon/lat projection for RU-COOL bigbight subregion history: Mon Oct 19 10:50:10 2009: ncks -4 -L 1 20021231.365.1818.n16.nc /home2/robertson/bigbightnc4/20021231.365.1818.n16.nc NCO: 20091019

Variables:	landmask: Grid lat: lon: missing_value: -999 long_name: Local Land Mask, 1 = land _FillValue: -999 _ChunkSizes: 1222, 1183
	lat: Array of 64 bit Reals [lat = 0..1221] lat: units: degrees_north long_name: Latitude _ChunkSizes: 1222
	lon: Array of 64 bit Reals [lon = 0..1182] lon: units: degrees_east long_name: Longitude _ChunkSizes: 1183
	cloud_mask: Grid time: lat: lon: missing_value: -999 long_name: Cloud_mask _FillValue: -999 Convention: 0=passed 1=failed time test 2=failed low temp test 4=failed high gradient test 8=failed climatology test; Logical tests are summed documentation: A measurement fails the time test if it is more than 2 degrees cooler than the median of the satellite passes in the previous 24 hrs; A measurement fails the low temp test if it is more than 2 standard devaitions colder than any other measurement in that image; A measurement fails the high gradient test if its temperature gradient is greater than 2 standard deviations of all gradients in the image; A measurement fails the climatology test if the temperature is more than 5 degrees colder than the climatologies calculated by NSIPP AVHRR Pathfinder and Erosion Global 9km SST Climatology (Casey, Cornillon) A description of this climatology can be found at ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/documents/dataset_docs/nsipp_climatology.htm; If any measurement is fails a test, all neighboring measurements within 3km are aslo automatically failed. _ChunkSizes: 1, 1222, 1183
	mcsst: Grid time: lat: lon: units: Celsius missing_value: -999.0 long_name: Multichannel Sea Surface Temperature _FillValue: -999.0 Projection: mercator Center_Latitude: 40.71182000230145 Center_Longitude: -70.0 Flattening: 0.0 Equator_Radius: 6378.137 documentation: Projection, Center Latitude (degrees north), Center Longitude (degrees east), Flattening and Equator Radius (km) used by the TerraScan Software for the projection of the mcsst data _ChunkSizes: 1, 1222, 1183
	sat: Array of 32 bit Integers [time = 0..2025] time: missing_value: -999 long_name: Satellite _FillValue: -999 Convention: Satellite Code, 1=noaa 12, 2=noaa 15, 3=noaa 17, 4=noaa 18, 5=noaa 14, 6=noaa 16 Satellite_Roll: 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 Satellite_Pitch: 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 Satellite_Yaw: 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 documentation: Satellite flight characteristics (Roll, Pitch, Yaw) are TerraScan metadata. Units of these metrics are in radians _ChunkSizes: 1
	time: Array of 32 bit Integers [time = 0..2025] time: units: seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 long_name: Time _ChunkSizes: 1

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Dataset {
    Grid {
     ARRAY:
        Int32 landmask[lat = 1222][lon = 1183];
     MAPS:
        Float64 lat[lat = 1222];
        Float64 lon[lon = 1183];
    } landmask;
    Float64 lat[lat = 1222];
    Float64 lon[lon = 1183];
    Grid {
     ARRAY:
        Int32 cloud_mask[time = 2026][lat = 1222][lon = 1183];
     MAPS:
        Int32 time[time = 2026];
        Float64 lat[lat = 1222];
        Float64 lon[lon = 1183];
    } cloud_mask;
    Grid {
     ARRAY:
        Float32 mcsst[time = 2026][lat = 1222][lon = 1183];
     MAPS:
        Int32 time[time = 2026];
        Float64 lat[lat = 1222];
        Float64 lon[lon = 1183];
    } mcsst;
    Int32 sat[time = 2026];
    Int32 time[time = 2026];
} cool/avhrr/bigbight/2002;

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