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Title

Monthly Mean Global Satellite Data Sets Available in CCM History Tape Format

Abstract

This report describes work completed on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) project, "Intercomparison of Satellite-Based Global Data Sets with Global Atmosphere/Ocean Model Experiments on the Greenhouse Effect" (NASA Grant W-17214, UPN 578-41-29-03). A goal of the project has been to acquire and analyze global satellite data sets that can potentially provide a standard for validating coupled atmosphere-ocean models. Such models are used to simulate the present climate and investigate possible climate change caused by increased concentrations of greenhouse gases. Global satellite data sets are also useful for many diagnostic studies of the climate system. Emphasis has been placed on acquiring satellite data with records of, at least, several years. The intercomparison of satellite data with model data is facilitated by putting the observed data into "history tape" format for use with the NCAR Community Climate Model (CCM) processor. This format is widely used to analyze CCM output as well as global data sets from the European Centre for Medium- Range Weather Forecasts and the National Meteorological Center. The satellite data sets that have been archived in CCM history tape format include data from: Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) Nimbus-7 Earth Radiation Budget (ERB) Nimbus-7 Cloud-Matrix (CMATRIX) Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR) Data from NOAA. It is likely that additional satellite data will be archived in the future. Access to the archived data above is described in this report, and brief summaries of each data set are given. Current and future work will include more detailed evaluations of the quality of the satellite data. Intercomparisons with model output will be reported elsewhere.

Resource type

document

Resource locator

Unique resource identifier

code

http://n2t.net/ark:/85065/d7057f9x

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

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code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

geoscientificInformation

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Text

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keyword set

keyword value

EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES > DATA MANAGEMENT/DATA HANDLING

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > LONGWAVE RADIATION

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > SHORTWAVE RADIATION

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD PROPERTIES

EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > MICROWAVE > BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE

EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES > MODELS > ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2021-09-17

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

East bounding longitude

North bounding latitude

South bounding latitude

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

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publication

effective date

1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

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Conformity

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Constraints related to access and use

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Use constraints

Copyright Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

OpenSky Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Library

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

opensky@ucar.edu

web address

http://opensky.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

responsible party role

pointOfContact

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Metadata point of contact

contact position

OpenSky Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Library

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

opensky@ucar.edu

web address

http://opensky.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2023-08-18T18:04:13.102662

Metadata language