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MODIS Aqua LST Product Anomaly

Platform Aqua
Instrument MODIS
Source MODAPS, LAADS
Issue Alert
Last Updated 2024-01-17 14:40:00
Start 2024-01-17 00:00:00
End 2024-01-25 17:00:00
Description

The C61 MODIS Aqua Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity (LST&E) data products, short-names MYD21* has been found to show a warming trend in recent years, especially since 2018, because of a significant upward trend in the Band 29 Brightness Temperature due to electronic crosstalk. This affects the entire MYD21 products suite. Efforts are underway to come up with a fix to mitigate this trend and implement the resolution as part of C61 forward processing. For a detailed description of the issue, please consult the LDOPE note here.

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