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NASA ISCCP D2 Nimbostratus, liquid

Nimbostratus, 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 nimbostratus_liquid mean_cloud[press optthick amount temp 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[IDS ARC ISCCP GES-DAAC GISS ISLSCP ASDC-DAAC GPCP GSFC GES_DISC NCCS_Dataserver PO-DAAC AVHRR-LST JPL msu ERBE ]
NASA GSFC[MERRA MERRA2 TOMS SPDF SED ]
NASA GSFC TOMS[NIMBUS7 OMI EPTOMS ]
NASA IDS[Anomalies EvapTrans ]
NASA ISCCP D2 nimbostratus_liquid[mean_cloud lat lon ]