International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) Ice Snow Product in Native Data Format

Description

ISCCP_ICESNOW_NAT_1 is the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) Ice Snow Product in Native Data Format data set. It is a merged product containing separate snow and sea ice data sets. The values given are fractional coverage for 5-day intervals. Data collection for this data set is complete. The data were collected on a global equal-area grid with the cell area equivalent to 1 degree latitude/longitude at the equator. The grid began at the South Pole with the intersection of the Greenwich meridian (0 degree longitude) and the South Pole as a cell corner. Ice/Snow Data Set contents included 5-day averages of snow and sea ice fractional coverage. Snow is deduced from visible satellite imagery plus ground data while sea ice was deduced from ship/shore and visible satellite imagery, and microwave measurements. ISCCP was the first project of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP), to collect and analyze satellite radiance measurements to infer the global distribution of cloud radiative properties and their diurnal and seasonal variations. These data and analysis products were used to improve the understanding and modeling of the effects of clouds on climate. The ISCCP version of the ice/snow data set included only information concerning fractional coverage. The version actually used in the cloud analysis was changed in two ways: reductions to ice/snow presence and creation of margin zones in the data. The first of these was simply the process of converting the coded parameters in the original data set to code values that indicate only the presence or absence of sea ice and/or snow. The latter process filled in nearby grid cells in the data to indicate proximity to snow or sea ice covered locations. The second change is not included in the archived version of this data.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Earthdata Search for ISCCP_ICESNOW_NAT_1 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data) https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C2146824443-LARC_ASDC
21 ISCCP New Algorithm: Summary of Changes https://isccp.giss.nasa.gov/newalg.html
21 EOS Aura Science Team Meeting AGENDA, August 27 - August 29, 2019 Pasadena CA, USA https://avdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/Overview/
21 NCAR UCAR Climate Data Guide https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/
21 Goddard's Panoply - plots geo-gridded data from netCDF, HDF, GRIB datasets. https://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/panoply/
21 ASDC Direct Data Download for ISCCP_ICESNOW_NAT_1 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/data/ISCCP/ICESNOW_NAT_1/
21 ASDC Data and Information for ISCCP https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/ISCCP
21 ISCCP project home page https://isccp.giss.nasa.gov/
21 How to cite ASDC data https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data
21 NASA Earth Observatory Article: Stars, Clouds, Crops https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/StarsCloudsCrops
21 ISCCP Data Products List https://isccp.giss.nasa.gov/products/products.html
21 DOI data set landing page for ISCCP_ICESNOW_NAT_1 https://doi.org/10.5067/ISCCP/ICESNOW_NAT
21 Readme to read ISCCP Ice/Snow information from data files - Direct File Download (.c) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/isccp/read_software/isccp_icesnow_read.c
21 NASA Earth Observatory Article: Shadows of Doubt - Monitoring Cloud Effects https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/ShadowsDoubt
33 ISCCP Project/Campaign Document for the Langley DAAC https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/isccp/guide/isccp_project.pdf
21 Publications for ISCCP https://isccp.giss.nasa.gov/docs/documents.html
21 Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Article: Global Cloud Process Studies in the Context of Decadal Climate Variability: Enhancement and Continuation of Data Analysis for the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) https://earthdata.nasa.gov/esds/competitive-programs/measures/data-analysis-for-isccp
33 ISCCP Ice Snow Product in Native (NAT) Format (ISCCP_ICESNOW_NAT) Data Set Abstract https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/isccp/guide/abstract_ISCCP_ICESNOW_NAT.pdf
21 Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Article: "But the winds... but the spaces" By Annette Varani https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/sensing-our-planet/but-the-winds-but-the-spaces
21 ISCCP Known and Fixed Errors in Data Products https://isccp.giss.nasa.gov/errors.html
21 ISCCP_ICESNOW_NAT Data Set Readme https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/isccp/readme/readme_isccp_icesnow_nat.txt
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FISCCP%2FICESNOW_NAT

Tags

  • snow-ice
  • oceans
  • cryosphere
  • terrestrial-hydrosphere
  • earth-science
  • sea-ice

Topics

  • Climate

Categories

  • Arctic
  • Arctic Weather and Extreme Events
  • Melting Glaciers, Snow and Ice
  • Arctic-Global Teleconnections