Available from July 1979 through December 1998, the TOVS Path-P data set provides observations of areas poleward of 60 degrees north latitude at a resolution of 100 km. Variables retrieved from satellite-observed radiances for this product include atmospheric temperature, water vapor, skin surface temperature, total effective cloud fraction, cloud top pressure and temperature, solar zenith elevation, surface pressure, turning angle between geostrophic wind and surface stress over ice, emissivity, boundary layer stratification and geostrophic drag coefficient. Users may also order subsets of the data for any of the parameters listed above, or for specific spatial or temporal coverages.
Subsetted data are available in binary format only.
Data users must register before accessing the TOVS data. Registered users automatically receive release notes via e-mail containing notification of data manipulation or formatting modifications. See the data documentation for a complete list of references .