NOAA (ERL) Highly Reflective Cloud (HRC) Analyses, monthly 1971-1985

NOAA has computed monthly total and normalized monthly total grids from daily 1-degree grids of highly reflective clouds (HRC) for January 1971 to December 1985. In addition to these grids, there are grids indicating the number of missing days in the monthly total grids, and long term means and standard deviations of normalized monthly total grids. These data are based on once daily visible pictures from orbiting satellites. The pictures were manually inspected for highly reflective clouds. If a 1-degree latitude-longitude square was dominated by such clouds that were likely to be associated with precipitation, a "yes" was recorded for the square.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1971-01
    End:  1985-12

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1971-01
Temporal Range End 1985-12
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Bounding Box North Lat N/A
Bounding Box South Lat N/A
Bounding Box West Long N/A
Bounding Box East Long N/A
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Resource Format ASCII
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Asset Size 22.979 MB
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Author Global Monitoring Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Publisher NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Publication Date 1985-10-24
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/4HE3-BD58
Alternate Identifier d740001
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
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Metadata Date 2025-10-09T01:29:07Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::d740001
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Global Monitoring Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce. (1985). NOAA (ERL) Highly Reflective Cloud (HRC) Analyses, monthly 1971-1985. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://doi.org/10.5065/4HE3-BD58. Accessed 11 October 2025.

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