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NASA ISCCP D2

NASA ISCCP D2: Cloud characteristics, including amount, optical thickness, and cloud top pressure and temperature, for multiple cloud types from the the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project.

Documents

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Datasets and variables

NASA ISCCP D2 all[mean_cloud lat lon ]
NASA ISCCP D2 altocumulus_ice[mean_cloud lat lon ]
NASA ISCCP D2 altocumulus_liquid[mean_cloud lat lon ]
NASA ISCCP D2 altostratus_ice[mean_cloud lat lon ]
NASA ISCCP D2 altostratus_liquid[mean_cloud lat lon ]
NASA ISCCP D2 cirrostratus[mean_cloud lat lon ]
NASA ISCCP D2 cirrus[mean_cloud lat lon ]
NASA ISCCP D2 cumulus_ice[mean_cloud lat lon ]
NASA ISCCP D2 cumulus_liquid[mean_cloud lat lon ]
NASA ISCCP D2 deep_convective[mean_cloud lat lon ]
NASA ISCCP D2 high_level[mean_cloud lat lon ]


NASA ISCCP D2 low_level[mean_cloud lat lon ]
NASA ISCCP D2 middle_level[mean_cloud lat lon ]
NASA ISCCP D2 nimbostratus_ice[mean_cloud lat lon ]
NASA ISCCP D2 nimbostratus_liquid[mean_cloud lat lon ]
NASA ISCCP D2 stratocumulus_ice[mean_cloud lat lon ]
NASA ISCCP D2 stratocumulus_liquid[mean_cloud lat lon ]
NASA ISCCP D2 stratus_ice[mean_cloud lat lon ]
NASA ISCCP D2 stratus_liquid[mean_cloud lat lon ]
NASA ISCCP D2 surface[ice lat lon ]

Independent Variables (Grids)

boxnum grid: /boxnum (unitless) ordered [ (2.0)] :grid
month (time) grid: /T (months since 1960-01-01) ordered (Jul 1983) to (Aug 2001) by 1.0 N= 218 pts :grid

References

Rossow, W.B., A.W. Walker, D.E. Beuschel, and M.D. Roiter, 1996: International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) Documentation of New Cloud Datasets. WMO/TD-No. 737, World Meteorological Organization, 115 pp.

Last updated: Tue, 19 May 2015 12:22:25 GMT

Data Views

SOURCES
NASA[GISS msu ASDC-DAAC IDS GPCP GSFC GES-DAAC ARC JPL ISCCP ERBE ISLSCP GES_DISC NCCS_Dataserver PO-DAAC AVHRR-LST ]
NASA GSFC[SED SPDF MERRA2 MERRA TOMS ]
NASA GSFC TOMS NIMBUS7 monthly[ai uv ]
NASA ISCCP D2[low_level altocumulus_liquid cirrus stratocumulus_liquid cirrostratus high_level cumulus_ice surface stratus_ice nimbostratus_ice lon altostratus_ice stratocumulus_ice nimbostratus_liquid all altocumulus_ice cumulus_liquid middle_level stratus_liquid deep_convective lat altostratus_liquid ]