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NASA ISCCP D2 nimbostratus_ice mean_cloud Optical Thickness

nimbostratus_ice mean_cloud Optical Thickness 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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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

Other Info

missing_value
[ 255.0 -1000.0 ]

References

Rossow_etal1996

Last updated: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 20:27:28 GMT

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