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Revision as of 13:49, 6 May 2009
This is a list of Cloud Data from Satellite Sources
Areas of Interest: Sierra Nevada, West CONUS
Desired Temporal Resolution: hourly or sub-hourly
Desired Spatial Resolution: Same as MODIS SCA, 0.5km pixels ideal. Note that hourly or sub-hourly data may only be available at a more coarse resolution of 1/8 dgeree
Minnis Group at NASA Langley Cloud and Radiation Research - VISST(day) and SIST(night) Algorithm Applied to GOES
NASA Langley Satellite Imagery and Cloud Products Page:[1]
Temporal Resolution: hourly
Spatial Resolution: pixel-level (4-km) retrievals and averages on a 0.3 or 0.5 degree latitude-longitude grid
Algorithm Description (short text): [2] Algorithm Description From Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program: [3] [4]
Format: Binary Pixel (Oct 2003-Present) [5]
Code to unpack compressed data: [6]
earlier satellite based retrievals that the Minnis group had been providing to ARM that were based on the Layered Bispectral Threshold Method (LBTM).
GOES Surface and Insolation Products (GSIP) upgraded by CIMSS for NOAA
Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System (CLASS) site [7] Use the pull down menu and select "GOES Surface and Insolation Products (GSIP)
Temporal Resolution: every hour on the hour for the Northern Hemisphere sectors, which contain CA)
Spatial Resolution: 1/8 degree (for the Northern Hemisphere sectors, which contain CA)
Algorithm Description:
Format: The data on CLASS is only in netCDF format [8]
