Cloud Products

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

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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).

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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]