Uploaded May 2013 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Presentation by Dr. Andrew Heidinger, scientist with NOAA's Advanced Satellite Products Branch who is stationed at the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS), University of Wisconsin-Madison. The presentation was one of five delivered at the CIMSS Science Symposium held on 6 May 2013.

Pathfinder Atmospheres Extended (PATMOS-X) is a satellite cloud data set from NOAA/NESDIS with many contributions from CIMSS. Originally an AVHRR data set, there is now experimental data from GOES and MODIS.

Read more about the Symposium here: http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/news/articles/2889.