D2 Stratus, liquid

Stratus, liquid 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.

Documents

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Datasets and variables

NASA ISCCP D2 lat[ boxnum |]
NASA ISCCP D2 lon[ boxnum |]
D2 stratus_liquid mean_cloud[waterpath temp optthick press amount ]

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
history
D2 selected using masknotrangeperiodic [ ( NASA ISCCP D2 lon ) , -180 , 180 , 360 ]

References

Rossow_etal1996

Last updated: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 18:39:07 GMT

Data Views

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