Description
ISCCP D-Series has been superseded by a newer version. Users should not use ISCCP D-Series except in rare cases (e.g., when reproducing previous studies that used the ISCCP D-Series). ISCCP was established in 1982 as part of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) to collect and analyze satellite radiance measurements to infer the global distribution of clouds, their properties, and their diurnal, seasonal, and interannual variations. Period of record is July 1, 1983 through December 31, 2009. ISCCP D-Series dataset consists of the following products: (1) D1 - Cloud products gridded to 2.5 deg at 3 hourly time steps. This includes about 200 variables, including cloud products, ancillary data and static data. (2) D2 - Monthly averages of cloud products gridded to 2.5 degree. This includes many variables and processing inputs (e.g., ancillary data) as well as outputs (cloud products, etc.). D2 data are temporal averages of the D1 data. (3) DX - Pixel level cloud products in the satellite-projection. This data is roughly 32 km and 3 hourly. This data is used to derive the D1 product. In addition, there are ancillary data files included with the archive; these inputs that are used to create the D-series data.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISCCP cloud data products | Unknown | Rossow, W.B., and R.A. Schiffer, 1991: ISCCP cloud data products. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 72, 2-20. | Open resource |
| Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Keywords | Unknown | The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. | Open resource |
| Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Keywords | Unknown | The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. | Open resource |
| Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Keywords | Unknown | The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. | Open resource |
| Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Keywords | Unknown | The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. | Open resource |
| Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Keywords | Unknown | The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. | Open resource |
| Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Keywords | Unknown | The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. | Open resource |
| Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Keywords | Unknown | The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. | Open resource |
| Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Keywords | Unknown | The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. | Open resource |
| Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Keywords | Unknown | The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. | Open resource |
| NASA ISCCP Project Site | Unknown | More information about the ISCCP D-Series can be found at this link. | Open resource |
| GCOS Essential Climate Variables | Unknown | Overview of the GCOS Essential Climate Variables. | Open resource |
| The International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP): The First Project of the World Climate Research Programme | Schiffer, R.A., and Rossow, W.B., 1983: The International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP): The First Project of the World Climate Research Programme. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 64, 779-784. | Open resource | |
| HDSS Access System | Unknown | Access to the D-Series data (D1, D2, DX) via HDSS ordering system (HAS). | Open resource |
| NOAA ISCCP Project Site | Unknown | NOAA now hosts the newest version of the ISCCP Data Series, with more information about the ISCCP Project from this site. | Open resource |
| NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) | Unknown | NCEI home page with information, data access and contact information. | Open resource |
| ISSCP, H-Series | Unknown | **Current Version** To use the most recent version of the ISCCP data products, please follow the link. | Open resource |
| NCEI Dataset Landing Page | Unknown | Landing page for the dataset. | Open resource |
Tags
- 10 km - < 50 km or approximately .09 degree - < .5 degree
- 250 km - < 500 km or approximately 2.5 degrees - < 5.0 degrees
- advanced very high resolution radiometer
- atmosphere
- atmospheric - upper-air - cloud properties
- avhrr
- clouds
- doc/noaa/nesdis/ncei
- earth observation satellites
- earth remote sensing instruments
- earth science
- geographic region
- global
- gms (japan geostationary meteorological satellite)
- goes (geostationary operational environmental satellite)
- goes i-m sounder
- hourly - < daily
- imaging spectrometers/radiometers
- insat (indian national satellite)
- international satellite cloud climatology project
- isccp
- meteosat
- meteosat second generation
- meteosat visible infra-red imager
- monthly - < annual
- msg
- mtsat-1r
- mtsat 1r imager
- mtsat-2
- mtsat 2 imager
- multi-functional transport satellite 1 replacement
- mviri
- national centers for environmental information
- nesdis
- noaa
- noaa poes (polar orbiting environmental satellites)
- passive remote sensing
- profilers/sounders
- radiometers
- seviri
- spectrometers/radiometers
- spinning enhanced visible and infrared imager
- the multi-functional transport satellite 2
- troposphere
- u.s. department of commerce
- vas
- vertical location
- visible and infrared spin scan radiometer (gms series)
- vissr atmospheric sounder
- vissr-gms