edu.ucar.opensky::technotes:138 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-26T16:51:41.345634 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7057f9x Monthly Mean Global Satellite Data Sets Available in CCM History Tape Format 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7057f9x https://doi.org/10.5065/D6N58JBP Hurrell, J. author Campbell, G. author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher This report describes work completed on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) project, "Intercomparison of Satellite-Based Global Data Sets with Global Atmosphere/Ocean Model Experiments on the Greenhouse Effect" (NASA Grant W-17214, UPN 578-41-29-03). A goal of the project has been to acquire and analyze global satellite data sets that can potentially provide a standard for validating coupled atmosphere-ocean models. Such models are used to simulate the present climate and investigate possible climate change caused by increased concentrations of greenhouse gases. Global satellite data sets are also useful for many diagnostic studies of the climate system. Emphasis has been placed on acquiring satellite data with records of, at least, several years. The intercomparison of satellite data with model data is facilitated by putting the observed data into "history tape" format for use with the NCAR Community Climate Model (CCM) processor. This format is widely used to analyze CCM output as well as global data sets from the European Centre for Medium- Range Weather Forecasts and the National Meteorological Center. The satellite data sets that have been archived in CCM history tape format include data from: Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) Nimbus-7 Earth Radiation Budget (ERB) Nimbus-7 Cloud-Matrix (CMATRIX) Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR) Data from NOAA. It is likely that additional satellite data will be archived in the future. Access to the archived data above is described in this report, and brief summaries of each data set are given. Current and future work will include more detailed evaluations of the quality of the satellite data. Intercomparisons with model output will be reported elsewhere. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication Brightness temperature Outgoing longwave radiation Data management/data handling Atmospheric general circulation models Cloud properties Longwave radiation Shortwave radiation theme U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Global Change Master Directory GCMD 2021-09-17 revision 11.2 NASA Global Change Master Directory originator Valids List: Science and Services Keywords Copyright Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. None eng geoscientificInformation