NASA International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) C2, 1983-1991

Monthly averages for each 3-hour period during a day, and monthly average for all data.

News as of August 23, 1993: ISCCP Global Processing Center is changing the algorithm for cloud detection. The "old" algorithm which was used to generate C1 and C2 products so far will be replaced by the "new" algorithm. The new algorithm will improve the cloud detection in the polar regions. The production of "C" level products of the current and previous months will progress in parallel. It is expected to have 10-year (July 1983 to June 1994) ISCCP C products in Fall 1995. The C1 and C2 products using the "old" algorithm stops at the end of June 1991. Again, if you are interested in areas other than the polar regions (cutoff at about 55 latitude), little change of the cloudiness caused by using the new algorithm is expected.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1983-07-01
    End:  1990-06-30

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1983-07-01
Temporal Range End 1990-06-30
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat N/A
Bounding Box South Lat N/A
Bounding Box West Long N/A
Bounding Box East Long N/A
Spatial Representation N/A
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links N/A
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format Binary
Standardized Resource Format Binary
Asset Size 427.00 MB
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Resource Support Name Chi-Fan Shih
Resource Support Email chifan@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive
Distributor NCAR Research Data Archive
Metadata Contact Name N/A
Metadata Contact Email rdahelp@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization NCAR Research Data Archive

Author National Space Science Data Center Coordinated Archive, Space Science Data Operation Office, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Colorado State University
Publisher Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory
Publication Date 1991-04-02
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/ZYQW-D149
Alternate Identifier d742001
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2024-08-04T02:11:40Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.rda::d742001
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation National Space Science Data Center Coordinated Archive, Space Science Data Operation Office, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Colorado State University. (1991). NASA International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) C2, 1983-1991. Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/ZYQW-D149. Accessed 20 November 2024.

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