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NASA ISCCP D2 Nimbostratus, ice

Nimbostratus, ice 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 nimbostratus_ice mean_cloud[press waterpath optthick amount temp ]

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: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 18:39:07 GMT

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NASA[ISLSCP ISCCP ASDC-DAAC JPL GISS IDS GES-DAAC NCCS_Dataserver AVHRR-LST GES_DISC ARC PO-DAAC GPCP msu GSFC ERBE ]
NASA GSFC[MERRA2 SED TOMS MERRA SPDF ]
NASA GSFC TOMS[NIMBUS7 EPTOMS OMI ]
NASA ERBE[Climatology ALL ERBS ERBS_N9 NOAA10 ERBS_N10 NOAA9 ]
NASA ISCCP D2 nimbostratus_ice[lon mean_cloud lat ]