Description
This product is composed of a beta version for a product from the MODerate resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) on board the Aqua satellite.
MODIS Aqua L3 occurrence frequency of low cloud types (OFLCT) is part of our global MODIS Aqua data from the 2017 MEaSUREs project, A Comprehensive Data Record of Marine Low-level and Deep Convective Cloud Systems Using an Object-Oriented Approach.
This file provides the aggregated occurrence frequency of low-cloud types for the year 2007 at monthly and annual intervals. The latitude and longitude variables from MYD_L2_CB; and latitude, longitude and pred_cat from MYD_L2_MPLCT were used to calculate the occurrence frequency of six low-cloud types in 2.0° x 2.0° grids for 60°S-60°N and 180°W-180°E. The six low cloud types are Closed-cellular MCC, Clustered Cumulus, Disorganized MCC, Open-cellular MCC, Solid Stratus, and Suppressed Cumulus.
The DOIs of the related datasets in this project are:
MYD_L2_CB_001 DOI: 10.5067/DFDGJR6707D8
MYD_L2_MPLCT_001 DOI: 10.5067/8TDZURGRLN9I
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
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| This dataset's landing page | HTML | Access the dataset landing page from the GES DISC website. | Open resource |
| View this dataset's how-to documentation | HTML | How to read and plot the data. | Open resource |
| Get a related visualization | PNG | MYD_L3_OFLCT_001.png | Open resource |
| Download this dataset through a directory map | HTML | Access the data via HTTPS. | Open resource |
| View this dataset's read me document | README Document | Open resource | |
| Use OPeNDAP to access the dataset's data | HTML | Access the data via the OPeNDAP protocol. | Open resource |
| Google Scholar search results | HTML | Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. | Open resource |
| Download this dataset through Earthdata Search | HTML | Use the Earthdata Search to find and retrieve data sets across multiple data centers. | Open resource |