Data Library NASA ISCCP D2 All Cloud Types
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NASA ISCCP D2 All Cloud Types

all All Cloud Types from 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.

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Datasets and variables



NASA ISCCP D2 all mean_cloud[waterpath press temp amount optthick ]

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: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 20:27:28 GMT

Data Views

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NASA[ASDC-DAAC IDS GSFC JPL ERBE GPCP ARC NCCS_Dataserver msu GES_DISC ISLSCP PO-DAAC GISS GES-DAAC AVHRR-LST ISCCP ]
NASA GSFC[MERRA2 TOMS MERRA SPDF SED ]
NASA GSFC TOMS NIMBUS7[daily monthly ]
NASA ISCCP D2 all[lat lon mean_cloud ]