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Remote Sens. 2012, 4, 3833-3856; doi:10.3390/rs4123833 OPEN ACCESS Remote Sensing ISSN 2072-4292 /journal/remotesensing Article Pan-Arctic Land Surface Temperature from MODIS and AATSR: Product Development and Intercomparison Aiman Soliman *, Claude Duguay, William Saunders and Sonia Hachem Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3), University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada; E-Mails: crduguay@uwaterloo.ca (C.D.); wrsaunders@uwaterloo.ca (W.S.); shachem@uwaterloo.ca (S.H.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: a2solima@uwaterloo.ca; Tel.: +1-519-888-4567-x-37574; Fax: +1-519-746-0658. Received: 12 October 2012; in revised form: 26 November 2012 / Accepted: 27 November 2012 / Published: 5 December 2012 Abstract: Models and observations show that the Arctic is experiencing the most rapid changes in global near-surface air temperature. We developed novel EASE-grid Level 3 (L3) land surface temperature (LST) products from Level 2 (L2) AATSR and MODIS data to provide weekly, monthly and annual LST means over the pan-Arctic region at various grid resolutions (1–25 km) for the past decade (2000–2010). In this paper, we provide: (1) a review of previous validation of MODIS/AATSR L2; (2) a description of the processing chain of L3 products; (3) an assessment of the 25 km products uncertainty, and; (4) a quantification of the bias introduced by over-representing clear-sky days in MODIS L3