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NASA ISCCP D2 Nimbostratus, ice

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 nimbostratus_ice mean_cloud[amount optthick waterpath press temp ]

Independent Variables (Grids)

boxnum grid: /boxnum (unitless) ordered [ (19.0)] :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: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 18:39:07 GMT

Data Views

boxnumT
NASA ISCCP D2[nimbostratus_liquid nimbostratus_ice middle_level low_level cirrostratus altostratus_liquid stratus_liquid lat altocumulus_liquid stratocumulus_liquid stratocumulus_ice surface stratus_ice lon cumulus_liquid high_level altostratus_ice cumulus_ice altocumulus_ice cirrus all deep_convective ]
NASA ISCCP D2 all mean_cloud temp[ boxnum T |]SM
NASA ISCCP D2 cumulus_liquid[lat lon mean_cloud ]
NASA ISCCP D2 high_level[lon mean_cloud lat ]
/cptv10
NASA ISCCP D2 nimbostratus_ice[lat lon mean_cloud ]