Monthly MODIS LST data related to the article: A new fully gap-free time series of land surface temperature from MODIS LST data

<p>Temperature time series with high spatial and temporal resolutions are important for several applications. The new MODIS Land Surface Temperature (LST) collection 6 provides numerous improvements compared to collection 5. However, being remotely sensed data in the thermal range, LST shows gaps in cloud-covered areas. With a novel method [1] we fully reconstructed the daily global MODIS LST products MOD11C1 and MYD11C1 (spatial resolution: 3 arc-min, i.e. approximately 5.6 km at the equator). For this, we combined temporal and spatial interpolation, using emissivity and elevation as covariates for the spatial interpolation. Here we provide a time series of these reconstructed LST data aggregated as monthly average, minimum and maximum LST maps.</p> <p>[1] Metz M., Andreo V., Neteler M. (2017): A new fully gap-free time series of Land Surface Temperature from MODIS LST data. Remote Sensing, 9(12):1333. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs9121333</p> <p>LICENSE: Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL) http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/</p> <p>Acknowledgments: We are grateful to the NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) for making the MODIS LST data available. The dataset is based on MODIS Collection V006.</p> <p><strong>The data available here for download are the reconstructed global MODIS LST products MOD11C1/MYD11C1 at a spatial resolution of 3 arc-min</strong> (approximately 5.6 km at the equator; see https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/dataset_discovery/modis/modis_products_table), <strong>aggregated to monthly data</strong>. The data are provided in GeoTIFF format. The Coordinate Reference System (CRS) is identical to the MOD11C1/MYD11C1 product as provided by NASA. In WKT as reported by GDAL:<br> <br> GEOGCS["Unknown datum based upon the Clarke 1866 ellipsoid",<br> DATUM["Not specified (based on Clarke 1866 spheroid)",<br> SPHEROID["Clarke 1866",6378206.4,294.9786982138982,<br> AUTHORITY["EPSG","7008"]]],<br> PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],<br> UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433]]<br> </p> <p><strong>File name</strong> abbreviations:</p> <ul> <li>avg = average of daily averages</li> <li>min = minimum of daily minima</li> <li>max = maximum of daily maxima</li> </ul> <p>Meaning of <strong>pixel values</strong>:</p> <ul> <li>The <strong>pixel values</strong> are coded in <strong>degree Celsius * 100</strong> (hence, to obtain °C divide the pixel values by 100.0).</li>