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NASA ISCCP D2 Low Level

Low Level 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 lat[ boxnum |]
NASA ISCCP D2 lon[ boxnum |]
NASA ISCCP D2 low_level mean_cloud[temp amount press ]

Independent Variables (Grids)

boxnum grid: /boxnum (unitless) ordered (1.0) to (6596.0) by 1.0 N= 6596 pts :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

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NASA[PO-DAAC GES_DISC IDS ERBE GSFC ASDC-DAAC ARC JPL AVHRR-LST GPCP ISLSCP GISS GES-DAAC ISCCP NCCS_Dataserver msu ]
NASA GSFC[SPDF SED MERRA2 TOMS MERRA ]
NASA GSFC TOMS[OMI NIMBUS7 EPTOMS ]
NASA AVHRR-LST lon[ x y |]MM
NASA ISCCP D2 low_level[lon mean_cloud lat ]