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Atlas of Simultaneous Occurrence of Different Cloud Types Over Land

Abstract

This is the second atlas in a series of four atlases from a study of the global cloud distribution from ground-based observations. The atlas covers cloud observations over the land. The reader is referred to NCAR/TN-201+STR, the first atlas of the series for details of the procedures used in classification and grouping of cloud types, and the general methodology of determining different cloud type co-occurrences. Additional discussion is contained in this atlas to describe those cases where a different procedure was followed either as an improvement, or to fit the different circumstances under which land-based cloud observations are made. The current cloud climatology study is part of the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Program (ISCCP) and will provide a complementary data set for evaluating and validating results from the First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) and subsequent field experiments.

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document

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https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7f76c0d

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eng

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Classification of spatial data and services

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geoscientificInformation

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Text

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

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Cloud types

Tropospheric/mid-level clouds (observed/analyzed)

Tropospheric/high-level clouds (observed/analyzed)

Tropospheric/low level clouds (observed/analyzed)

Convective clouds/systems (observed/analyzed)

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

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revision

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2021-09-17

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publication

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1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

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Copyright Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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None

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OpenSky Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Library

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

opensky@ucar.edu

web address

http://opensky.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

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OpenSky Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Library

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

opensky@ucar.edu

web address

http://opensky.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2025-07-17T18:01:14.086000

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