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International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project: ISCCP-D1, ISCCP-D2 and ISCCP-C2 cloud products dataset collection
The International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) was based at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. ISCCP was sponsored by the World Climate Research Programme for the purpose of "collecting and analyzing satellite radiance measurements to infer the global distribution of cloud radiative properties and their diurnal and seasonal variations".
This dataset collection contains the global three-hourly cloud products (ISCCP-D1), global monthly cloud products (ISCCP-D2), using the revised algorithm, at 280 km spatial resolution and and monthly cloud analysis products (ISCCP-C2) at 250 km spatial resolution.
There are more than 200 variables contained within the datasets.
Note - that that the temporal range of the datasets presented here are contain data available from the NASA Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) covers the full extent available at the time of the dataset publication in the CEDA archives, begin in July 1983 and extend through to December 1999 (D1), 2006 (D2) and 1990 (C1). Fuller versions of the datasets are available from ASDC directly. These limited copies were obtained to aid researcher access within the UK community at the time.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2002-12-10T02:33:12
- Date (Creation)
- 2002-12-10T02:33:12
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 5890110c9f806a2fb14f9030898def43
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown Unknown
- Update scope
- series Series
- Keywords
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- ISCCP
- NASA
- cloud
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- atmospheric conditions
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Please contact the data centre for assistance on accessing data from this dataset collection.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid Grid
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1983-01-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2006-06-30T22:59:59
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
- Distribution format
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- OnLine resource
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- OnLine resource
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ISCCP Homepage
No further details.
- OnLine resource
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ISCCP-D1 Document Directory
No further details.
- OnLine resource
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BADC Doc: ISCCP-D1 List of variables
No further details.
- OnLine resource
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BADC Doc: ISCCP-D1 References
No further details.
- OnLine resource
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ISCCP Project Documents
No further details.
- OnLine resource
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ISCCP-D2 Docs Directory
No further details.
- OnLine resource
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BADC Doc: ISCCP-C2 List of variables
No further details.
- OnLine resource
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BADC Doc: ISCCP-C2 References
No further details.
- OnLine resource
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BADC Doc: ISCCP-D2 List of variables
No further details.
- OnLine resource
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BADC Doc: ISCCP-D2 References
No further details.
- Hierarchy level
- series Series
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.
- File identifier
- 5890110c9f806a2fb14f9030898def43 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- series Series
- Hierarchy level name
- series
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-15T03:26:19
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
Overviews
Spatial extent
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