ESA Cloud Climate Change Initiative (Cloud_cci): MODIS-AQUA monthly gridded cloud properties, version 2.0

The Cloud_cci MODIS-Aqua dataset was generated within the Cloud_cci project (http://www.esa-cloud-cci.org) which was funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) as part of the ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI) programme (Contract No.: 4000109870/13/I-NB). This dataset is one of the 6 datasets generated in Cloud_cci; all of them being based on passive-imager satellite measurements. This dataset is based on MODIS (onboard Aqua) measurements and contains a variety of cloud properties which were derived employing the Community Cloud retrieval for Climate (CC4CL) retrieval system. The core cloud properties contained in the Cloud_cci MODIS-Aqua dataset are cloud mask/fraction, cloud phase, cloud top pressure/height/temperature, cloud optical thickness, cloud effective radius and cloud liquid/ice water path. Spectral cloud albedo is also included as experimental product. Level-3C product files contain monthly averages and histograms of the mentioned cloud properties together with propagated uncertainty measures.

Date (Publication): 2017-04-02T17:28:58

Date (Creation): 2017-04-02T17:28:58

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Identifier: alternative.identifier / esacci.CLOUD.mon.L3C.CLD_PRODUCTS.MODIS.Aqua.MODIS_AQUA.2-0.r1.v20170330

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Unavailable - Stengel, Martin ( author )

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Unavailable - Sus, Oliver ( author )

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Unavailable - Stapelberg, Stefan ( author )

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Unavailable - Schlundt, Cornelia ( author )

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Unavailable - Poulsen, Caroline A. ( author )

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Keywords

Deutscher Wetterdienst
Aqua
Level 3
cloud
MODIS
Level 3C
multiple cloud products
MODIS_AQUA
month
EOS
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
multiple cloud products
cloud
month
Deutscher Wetterdienst
Aqua
EOS
Level 3
Level 3C
MODIS_AQUA
MODIS
ESA
CCI
Clouds

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Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

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Begin date: 2002-07-31T23:00:00

End date: 2014-12-31T23:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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OnLine resource: DOI:10.5676/DWD/ESA_Cloud_cci/MODIS-Aqua/V002
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Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: The data here form a subset of the ATSR2-AATSR v2.0 products produced by the ESA Cloud CCI, a copy of which has been supplied to the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis in the context of the ESA CCI Open Data Portal Project. The full dataset is collectively referenced by the following DOI: Stengel, Martin; Sus, Oliver; Stapelberg, Stefan; Schlundt, Cornelia; Poulsen, Caroline; Hollmann, Rainer (2017): ESA Cloud Climate Change Initiative (ESA Cloud_cci) data: Cloud_cci MODIS-Aqua L3C/L3U CLD_PRODUCTS v2.0, Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), DOI:10.5676/DWD/ESA_Cloud_cci/MODIS-Aqua/V002

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Date stamp: 2025-05-09T02:25:16

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