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The persistence and coverage of geostationary remote sensing instruments grant the frequent retrieval of near-instantaneous quasi-global skin temperature. Among other cloud and clear-sky retrieval parameters, NASA Langley provides a non-polar, high-resolution land and ocean skin temperature dataset for atmospheric modelers by applying an inverted correlated k-distribution method to clear-pixel values of top-of-atmosphere infrared temperature. The present paper shows that this method yields clear-sky skin temperature values that are, for the most part, within 2 K of measurements from ground-site instruments, like the Southern Great Plains Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Infrared Thermometer and the National Climatic Data Center Apogee Precision Infrared Thermocouple Sensor. The level of accuracy relative to the ARM site is comparable to that of the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) with the benefit of an increased number of daily measurements without added bias or increased error. Additionally, matched comparisons of the high-resolution skin temperature product with MODIS land surface temperature reveal a level of accuracy well within 1 K for both day and night. This confidence will help in characterizing the diurnal and seasonal biases and root-mean-square differences between the retrievals and modeled values from the NASA Goddard Earth Observing System Version 5 (GEOS-5) in preparation for assimilation of the retrievals into GEOS-5. Modelers should find the immediate availability and broad coverage of these skin temperature observations valuable, which can lead to improved forecasting and more advanced global climate models.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs5010342","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,1,17]],"date-time":"2013-01-17T11:25:50Z","timestamp":1358421950000},"page":"342-366","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":20,"title":["Retrieving Clear-Sky Surface Skin Temperature for Numerical Weather Prediction Applications from Geostationary Satellite Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"5","author":[{"given":"Benjamin","family":"Scarino","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA 23666, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4733-6148","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Patrick","family":"Minnis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23681, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Rabindra","family":"Palikonda","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA 23666, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5513-0150","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rolf","family":"Reichle","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Daniel","family":"Morstad","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA 23666, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8754-9594","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Christopher","family":"Yost","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA 23666, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Baojuan","family":"Shan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA 23666, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Qing","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD 20706, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,1,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"4723","article-title":"Evaluation of the surface radiation budget in the atmospheric component of the Hadley Centre Global Environmental Model (HadGEM1)","volume":"17","author":"Ringer","year":"2008","journal-title":"J. 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