Climatological Data for Clouds Over the Globe from Surface Observations

Total cloud cover and cloud type amounts over both land and ocean, based on data from FNOC and COADS.

Superseded by the Extended Edited Synoptic Cloud Report Archive. See RELATED DATASETS
below.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1930-01
    End:  1983-11

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1930-01
Temporal Range End 1983-11
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat N/A
Bounding Box South Lat N/A
Bounding Box West Long N/A
Bounding Box East Long N/A
Spatial Representation N/A
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links

Related Resource #1 : Climate Atlas of Clouds Over Land and Ocean at the University of Washington
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format ASCII
Standardized Resource Format ASCII
Asset Size 92.848 MB
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Access Constraints None
Software Implementation Language N/A

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Resource Support Email datahelp@ucar.edu
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Distributor NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange
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Author
Publisher NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Publication Date 1987-08-24
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/4314-7257
Alternate Identifier d292000
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-09T01:22:57Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::d292000
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation . (1987). Climatological Data for Clouds Over the Globe from Surface Observations. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://doi.org/10.5065/4314-7257. Accessed 07 January 2026.

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