Dataset
CLOUDMAP2: Along Track Scanning Radiometer 2 (ATSR-2) cloud products from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL)
Update Frequency: Not Planned
Latest Data Update: 2004-03-25
Status: Completed
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2007-02-27
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 111.83K Files | 187GB
Abstract
The CLOUDMAP 2 project cloud products include cloud top pressure, height, phase, fraction, effective radius and optical depth derived using a variational analysis method applied to data from the Along Track Scanning Radiometer-2 (ATSR-2) over Europe. These data are the result of a contract to Eumetsat for application to the Spinning Enhanced Visible Infra-Red Imager (SEVIRI) and partly under the European Framework 5 CLOUMAP2 project.
This dataset contains ATSR cloud products from Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL).
Citable as: EUMETSAT; Poulsen, C.A. (2007): CLOUDMAP2: Along Track Scanning Radiometer 2 (ATSR-2) cloud products from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL). NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/c7b8b27791359b48d5dfeb66acd00337/
Abbreviation: CLOUDMAP2-CLOUDMAP
Keywords: Clouds, Atmosphere, cloudmap
Details
| Previous Info: |
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| Previously used record identifiers: |
http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__dep_11725390638215760
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| Access rules: |
Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence(s): http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record. |
| Data lineage: |
Data were collected by the Spinning Enhanced Visible Infra-Red Imager (SEVIRI), the Along Track Scanning Radiometer-2 (ATSR-2) and Meteosat Second Generation Observations. The data were passed on to the BADC for archiving. |
| Data Quality: |
not available at this time
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| File Format: |
Data are HDF formatted
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Related Documents
| CLOUDMAP Background Information |
| CLOUDMAP File Format explained |
Process overview
This dataset was generated by a combination of instruments deployed on platforms
and computations as detailed below.
Instrument/Platform pairings
| Along Track Scanning Radiometer 2 (ATSR-2) | Deployed on: European Remote Sensing satellite 2 - ERS-2 |
Mobile platform operations
| Mobile Platform Operation 1 | Mobile Platform Operation for: European Remote Sensing satellite 2 (ERS-2) |
Computation Element: 1
| Title | Deployed on European Remote Sensing satellite 2 (ERS-2) |
| Abstract | This computation involved: deployed on European Remote Sensing satellite 2 (ERS-2). |
| Input Description | None |
| Output Description | None |
| Software Reference | None |
| Output Description | None |
- long_name: Cloud Amount
- names: Cloud Amount
- long_name: Cloud Fraction
- names: Cloud Fraction
- long_name: Cloud Height
- gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0143
- gcmd_keyword: Cloud Height
- names: Cloud Height, http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0143
- long_name: Cloud Optical Depth
- names: Cloud Optical Depth
- long_name: Cloud Top Pressure
- gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0149
- gcmd_keyword: Cloud Top Pressure
- names: Cloud Top Pressure, http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0149
- long_name: Cloud Types
- gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0151
- gcmd_keyword: Cloud Types
- names: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0151, Cloud Types
- long_name: Droplet Concentration
- names: Droplet Concentration
- long_name: Efective Radius
- names: Efective Radius
- long_name: Frequency
- names: Frequency
- long_name: Phase
- names: Phase
- long_name: Size
- names: Size
- long_name: Thickness
- names: Thickness
Co-ordinate Variables
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
1995-06-30T23:00:00
End time:
2000-12-31T23:59:59
Geographic Extent
90.0000° |
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-180.0000° |
180.0000° |
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-90.0000° |
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