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Warren's Global Climatological Cloud Data, 1930-1983Nov
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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
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| VARIABLES: |
| Cloud Amount/Frequency | Cloud Types |
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| TYPES: |
Grids
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| COVERAGE: |
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| SOURCES: |
UWA/ATMOS Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Washington
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| RELATED SITES: |
Climate Atlas of Clouds Over Land and Ocean at the University of Washington
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| 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.
Recommended acknowledgement for this dataset:
"The data for this study are from the Research Data Archive (RDA) which is maintained by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). NCAR is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The original data are available from the RDA (http://dss.ucar.edu) in dataset number ds292.0."
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| VOLUME: |
92.85 MBytes
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| DATA FORMATS: |
ASCII (see dataset documentation)
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| 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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| CONTACT: |
For assistance with this dataset, please contact
Chi-Fan Shih (303-497-1833)
. If the specialist is unavailable, please contact
Data Help.
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| DATA ACCESS: |
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