Global monthly cloud products as produced for the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. The data on are the ISCCP Stage D2 data (ISCCP-D2), at 280 km spatial resolution. There are 130 variables contained within the dataset, which has both monthly means as well as means for three hourly time intervals. The data available at the time of publication begin in July 1983 and extend through to December 1999. This dataset is public.