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NASA ISCCP D2

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

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_etal1996

Last updated: Tue, 19 May 2015 12:22:25 GMT

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