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DATA: Surface temperature

METHOD: AVHRR infrared data.

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ASIS FORMAT DATA: ASCII FILE:

SOURCE: Joey Comiso

REF: Kwok, R., and J. Comiso (2002), Spatial patterns of variability in Antarctic surface temperature: Connections to the Southern Hemisphere Annular Mode and the Southern Oscillation, Geophysical Research Letters, 29(NO. 14,1705), doi;10.1029/2002GL015,415.

DATE ACQUIRED: 06/06/2005

CONDITIONS: Permission for general use in this project.

UNITS: degrees C

ORIGINAL FORMAT: binary grid

ORIGINAL RESOLUTION: 12.5 km

ORIGINAL PROJECTION: Polar Stereographic

PROCESSING: Annual mean temperatures from 1982-2004 averaged. Grid resampled to 5 km resolution using BILINEAR interpolation in ArcGIS and clipped to domain.

COMMENTS:

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