The time-averaged global maps are provided at half degree resolution averaged over 5 day and 1 month periods. The data on the CDs cover the four year period from August 1991 to July 1995 inclusive. The data are held on CD-ROM at the BADC and they can be made available for browsing purposes. If you want to use the data in earnest you should order a copy of the CD from the contact address listed below. The choice of this simple format means that it should be a relatively simple matter to read the data on a variety of different computer set-ups and operating systems.
Software is provided on the CDs to read and plot the data.
The documentation on the CD-ROM has been extracted and made available through this interface. This gives an inventory of the data on the CD and an outline of the data format and software avalable on the CD for reading and plotting the data. There is a great deal of useful information about these and other ATSR data products from the ATSR group web pages , including some sample images. Links to Further Information Information about the ATSR instrument and its successor ATSR-2 may be found on the ATSR web pages . The ATSR instrument design is described in Edwards et al.