edu.ucar.gdex::d539393 eng; USA utf-8 dataset NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange datahelp@ucar.edu https://gdex.ucar.edu NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange The Geoscience Data Exchange (GDEX), managed by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at NSF NCAR, contains a large collection of meteorological, atmospheric composition, and oceanographic observations, and operational and reanalysis model outputs, integrated with NSF NCAR High Performance Compute services to support atmospheric and geosciences research. download pointOfContact 2026-04-16T22:17:41Z ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata ISO19115:2003/Cor 1 2006 https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d539393 Urban Heat MiniCubes d539393 2026-04-16 publication Starfeldt, Jonathan author Molina, Maria J. author Holmes, Thomas R. H. author Hain, Christopher R. author Kerr, Alexander author Yang, Adam author NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research publisher With over 80% of the United States' population living in urban areas, it is critical to advance our understanding and near-/real-time observational capabilities of the environments where most humans live. Recent advances in artificial intelligence present new opportunities to leverage the extensive and disparate amounts of data available to model urban heat. Our dataset leverages remotely sensed images, which provide the benefit of extensive spatial coverage. There are two modalities in the dataset, of varying resolution. The first modality contains observations at an 8-day temporal resolution and at a 30 m spatial resolution, as modulated by the Landsat 8 and 9 satellites. Landsat data included in these files consist of land surface temperature, visible and near-infrared surface reflectances for land surface characterization, and the pixel quality mask for cloud detection. Also included in these files are Sentinel-1 SAR backscatter values to quantify surface roughness. Sentinel-1 observations are resampled to Landsat resolution for inclusion in the dataset. The second modality contains observations at a 10-minute temporal resolution and at a 2 km spatial resolution, as modulated by the GOES-16, 17, and 18 satellites. GOES longwave infrared brightness temperatures are provided to measure the thermal environment of the surface over time. Also included in these files is a microwave land surface temperature product to provide temperature observations amidst cloudy weather. completed datahelp@ucar.edu pointOfContact notPlanned dataset https://gdex.ucar.edu/images/ds_logos/default_200_200.png Logo thumbnail from URL png NetCDF dataset Resource Type 2021-03-30 revision 4.4 DataCite Metadata Working Group orginator resourceTypeGeneral CORIOLIS > Coriolis DMSP 5D-2/F13 > Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-F13 DMSP 5D-2/F14 > Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-F14 DMSP 5D-3/F15 > Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-F15 DMSP 5D-3/F16 > Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-F16 GCOM-W1 > Global Change Observation Mission 1st-Water GOES-16 GOES-17 > Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 17 GOES-18 > Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 18 LANDSAT-8 > LANDSAT-8 LANDSAT-9 > LANDSAT-9 TRMM > Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Global Change Master Directory GCMD 2026-04-15 revision 23.7 NASA Global Change Master Directory orginator Valids List: Platforms EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > SKIN TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD PROPERTIES EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SURFACE RADIATIVE PROPERTIES > REFLECTANCE EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > INFRARED WAVELENGTHS > BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > MICROWAVE > BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > RADAR > RADAR BACKSCATTER U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Global Change Master Directory GCMD 2026-04-15 revision 23.7 NASA Global Change Master Directory orginator Valids List: Science and Services Keywords Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License None eng utf-8 environment 2022-01-01 2023-12-31 NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange datahelp@ucar.edu https://gdex.ucar.edu distributor 980283.564 https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d539393/ https Dataset Description Related Link information https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d539393/dataaccess/ https Data Access Related Link download none asNeeded