AVHRR SDS and PATMOS-x

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Generation of Cloud Products from NOAAs
Operational Satellite Imagers

• While advanced imagers such as VIIRS and ABI will
  provide significantly improved cloud remote
  sensing capabilities, the data from AVHRR and the
  GOES imagers provide our best current real-time
  cloud observing system from imager data.
• The Clouds from AVHRR Extended System (CLAVR-x)
  derives cloud properties from the AVHRR that are
  physically similar to those from MODIS, VIIRS and
  ABI and provide valuable experience to NOAAs
  customers that should increase the usage of cloud
  products during NPOESS and GOES-R.
• Similar algorithms to those used in CLAVR-x are
  run on GOES imager data and provide a consistent
  suite of cloud products to NOAAs customers at
  multiple spatial and temporal resolutions.

Example CLAVR-x Product at 55 km
Example CLAVR-x Product at 1 km