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NASA ISCCP D2 Middle Level

Middle 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 middle_level mean_cloud[amount press temp ]

Independent Variables (Grids)

boxnum grid: /boxnum (unitless) ordered [ (15.0)] :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

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NASA[ISCCP ASDC-DAAC JPL GISS PO-DAAC GPCP msu NCCS_Dataserver AVHRR-LST GES_DISC IDS GES-DAAC ARC ERBE GSFC ISLSCP ]
NASA GPCP[V1DD V2p1 V2 V1B V3p2 V2p3 V2p2 ]
NASA GPCP V2p2[AGPI TOVS satellite-gauge SSMI_scattering GPCC_gauge SSMI_TOVS_composite OPI multi-satellite GPI SSMI_emission SSMI_composite ]
NASA GPCP V2p2 satellite-gauge[err prcp ]
NASA GPCP V2p2[AGPI TOVS satellite-gauge SSMI_scattering GPCC_gauge SSMI_TOVS_composite OPI multi-satellite GPI SSMI_emission SSMI_composite ]
NASA ISCCP D2 middle_level[mean_cloud lon lat ]