Climatological Data for Clouds Over the Globe from Surface Observations (1988) (NDP-026)

Hahn, C. J.; Warren, S. G.; London, J.; Jenne, R. L.; Chervin, R. M.

doi:10.3334/CDIAC/cli.ndp026

Title: Climatological Data for Clouds Over the Globe from Surface Observations (1988) (NDP-026)

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With some data from as early as 1930, global long-term monthly and/or seasonal total cloud cover, cloud type amounts and frequencies of occurrence, low cloud base heights, harmonic analyses of annual and diurnal cycles, interannual variations and trends, and cloud type co-occurrences have been compiled and presented in two atlases (Warren et al. 1988, 1990). These data were derived from land and ship synoptic weather reports from the "SPOT" archive of the Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center (FNOC) and from Release 1 of the Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (COADS) for the years 1930-1979. The data are in 12 files (one containing latitude, longitude, land-fraction, and number of land stations for grid boxes; four containing total cloud, cloud types, harmonic analyses, and interannual variations and trends for land; four containing total cloud, cloud types, harmonic analyses, and interannual variations and trends for oceans; one containing first cloud analyses for the first year of the GARP Global Experiment (FGGE); one containing cloud-type co-occurrences for land and oceans; and one containing a FORTRAN program to read and produce maps).For access to the data files, click this link to the CDIAC data transition website: http://cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/ndps/ndp026.html

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Hahn, C. J.; Warren, S. G.; London, J.; Jenne, R. L.; Chervin, R. M.

University of Colorado, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences
University of Colorado, Department of Astrophysical, Planetary, and Atmospheric Sciences
National Center for Atmospheric Research

Publication Date:: Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1988

Other Number(s):: doi:10.3334/CDIAC/CLI.NDP026; cdiac:doi 10.3334/CDIAC/cli.ndp026

Research Org.:: Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem (ESS-DIVE) (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: U.S. DOE > Office of Science (SC) > Biological and Environmental Research (BER) (SC-23)

Subject:: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Keywords:: cloud type amounts; cloud type co-occurrences; cloud type frequencies; harmonic analyses of annual and diurnal cycles; interannual cloud variations and trends; low cloud base heights; total cloud cover; NDP-026; cloud type co-occurrences; cloud types over land; cloud types over ocean; harmonic analyses for land; harmonic analyses for ocean; interannual variation and trends land; interannual variation and trends ocean; land-fraction; latitude; longitude; number of land stations; total cloud over land; total cloud over ocean

Geolocation:: 87.5,-5.0|-65.0,-5.0|-65.0,0.0|87.5,0.0|87.5,-5.0

OSTI Identifier:: 1394925

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3334/CDIAC/cli.ndp026

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                    Hahn, C. J., Warren, S. G., London, J., Jenne, R. L., and Chervin, R. M. Climatological Data for Clouds Over the Globe from Surface Observations (1988) (NDP-026).  United States: N. p., 1988. 
        Web.  doi:10.3334/CDIAC/cli.ndp026.

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                    Hahn, C. J., Warren, S. G., London, J., Jenne, R. L., & Chervin, R. M. Climatological Data for Clouds Over the Globe from Surface Observations (1988) (NDP-026).  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.3334/CDIAC/cli.ndp026

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                    Hahn, C. J., Warren, S. G., London, J., Jenne, R. L., and Chervin, R. M. 1988.  
"Climatological Data for Clouds Over the Globe from Surface Observations (1988) (NDP-026)".  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.3334/CDIAC/cli.ndp026.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1394925. Pub date:Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1988

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