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NASA ISCCP D2 Stratocumulus, liquid

Stratocumulus, liquid 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 stratocumulus_liquid mean_cloud[optthick amount temp press waterpath ]

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: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 21:51:22 GMT

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