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Nimbus-7 THIR, CMATRIX, Cloud Data for 1979Apr-1985Mar

Temperature Humidity Infrared Radiometer (THIR) radiances together with Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) derived UV reflectivities, climatological temperature lapse rates, and current surface temperature and snow/ice information are used to generate cloud data. The cloud data include, total cloud amount, cloud amounts at high, middle and low altitudes, currus and deep convective clouds, and cloud and surface radiances.



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PERIODS: 1979-04 to 1985-03
VARIABLES:
Cloud Amount/Frequency
TYPES: Satellite
SOURCES: NASA/GSFC/NSSDC
National Space Science Data Center, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
PUBLICATIONS: 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 ds710.5."
VOLUME: 799.79 MBytes
DATA FORMATS: Binary (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.
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