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Warren's Global Climatological Cloud Data, 1930-1983Nov

Total cloud cover and cloud type amounts over both land and ocean, based on data from FNOC and COADS.

An update is coming. See RELATED SITES below for a preliminary and partial updated maps.



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PERIODS: 1930-01 to 1983-11
VARIABLES:
Cloud Amount/FrequencyCloud Types
TYPES: Grids
COVERAGE:
SOURCES: UWA/ATMOS
Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Washington
RELATED SITES: Climate Atlas of Clouds Over Land and Ocean at the University of Washington
PUBLICATIONS: Warren, S.G., C.J. Hahn, J. London, R.M. Chervin and R. Jenne, 1988: Global distribution of total cloud cover and cloud type amounts over the ocean. TN-317+STR, National Center for Atmospheric Research, 212 pp.

Warren, S.G., C.J. Hahn, J. London, R.M. Chervin and R. Jenne, 1986: Global distribution of total cloud cover and cloud type amounts over land. TN-273+STR, National Center for Atmospheric Research, 229 pp.

Hahn, C.J., S.G. Warren, J. London, R.M. Chervin and R. Jenne, 1984: Atlas of simultaneous occurrence of different cloud types over land. TN-241+STR, National Center for Atmospheric Research, 209 pp.

Hahn, C.J., S.G. Warren, J. London, R.M. Chervin and R. Jenne, 1982: Atlas of simultaneous occurrence of different cloud types over the ocean. TN-201+STR, National Center for Atmospheric Research, 212 pp.

VOLUME: 92.85 MBytes
FORMATS: ASCII (see dataset documentation)
CONTACT: For assistance with this dataset, please contact Chi-Fan Shih (303-497-1833) . If the specialist is unavailable, please contact Data Help.
RELATED DATASETS: ds292.1 - Warren's Global Climatological Cloud Data, by Surface Observations 1982-91
ds292.2 - Extended Edited Synoptic Cloud Reports Archive (EECRA) from Ships and Land Stations Over the Globe, 1952-1997

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