Cloudmask, CLAVR-1, NOAA POES AVHRR, 0.0125 degrees, West US, 2007-present, Nighttime (Single Scan)
The CLAVR-1 cloudmask (Stowe, 1999) is used to cloudmask AVHRR high resolution sea surface temperature products.  The cloudmask runs a series of tests on each surface temperature pixel to determine whether the pixel is contaminated by cloud cover.  Users may evaluate which specific tests in the cloudmask returned …