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NASA’s clouds data span from atmosphere cloud and surface geophysical state measurements to hurricane tracking. Our datasets and tools help users find and integrate the data they need to discover how clouds form, flourish, and influence Earth’s weather and climate.

Clouds Datasets

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Dataset Sort descending Version Platform Instrument Temporal Extent Spatial Extent Spatial Resolution Data Format
AVIRIS-NG L2 Surface Reflectance, Facility Instrument Collection, V1 1 NOAA Twin Otter, NASA ER-2, DHC-6, B-200 AVIRIS-NG 2014-06-21 to Present

N: 84.356 S: 9.19806 E: 88.8094 W: -166.652

ENVI
BOREAS AES Canadian Hourly and Daily Surface Meteorological Data, R1 2 METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS SNOW MEASURING ROD, TEMPERATURE LOGGERS, HUMIDITY SENSORS, RAIN GAUGES, WIND MONITOR, VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, BAROMETERS, ANEMOMETERS, DEWPOINT HYDROMETERS, DRY BULB THERMOMETERS, WET BULB THERMOMETERS 1975-01-01 to 1997-01-01

N: 57.35 S: 52.17 E: -97.83 W: -107.87

Binary
BOREAS AES Five-day Averaged Surface Meteorological and Upper Air Data 1 METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS DEWPOINT HYDROMETERS, DRY BULB THERMOMETERS, VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, RAIN GAUGES, SNOW MEASURING ROD, WET BULB THERMOMETERS, BAROMETERS, ANEMOMETERS 1976-01-01 to 1997-01-01

N: 57.35 S: 52.17 E: -97.83 W: -107.87

ASCII
BOREAS AFM-08 ECMWF Hourly Surface and Upper Air Data for the SSA and NSA 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1994-05-13 to 1997-03-31

N: 62 S: 48 E: -92 W: -114

ASCII
BOREAS TF-08 NSA-OJP and SSA-OBS Ceilometer Data 1 METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS CEILOMETERS 1994-05-31 to 1996-11-10

N: 55.93 S: 53.99 E: -98.62 W: -105.12

ASCII
BOREAS/AES MARS-II 15-minute Surface Meteorological Data: 1994 1 METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS CEILOMETERS, RAIN GAUGES, TEMPERATURE SENSORS, Visibility Sensor, WIND MONITOR, ANEROID PRESSURE SENSOR 1994-05-24 to 1994-09-20

N: 59.56 S: 51.08 E: -97.55 W: -108.43

ASCII
BOREAS/AES READAC 15-minute Surface Meteorological Data 1 METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS PRESSURE TRANSDUCERS, THERMISTORS, TEMPERATURE PROBES, Visibility Sensor, RAIN GAUGES, WIND MONITOR, CEILOMETERS 1994-05-24 to 1994-09-20

N: 52.7 S: 52.7 E: -102.32 W: -102.32

ASCII
CALIPSO IIR Lidar Level 3 Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Cloud, Standard V1-00 V1-00 CALIPSO IIR 2006-06-01 to 2016-12-31 HDF4
CALIPSO IIR Lidar Level 3 Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Cloud, Standard V2-00 V2-00 CALIPSO IIR 2006-06-01 to 2023-07-01 HDF4
CALIPSO Infrared Imaging Radiometer (IIR) Level 2 Swath, V4-51 V4-51 CALIPSO IIR 2006-06-12 to 2023-06-30 HDF4
CALIPSO Infrared Imaging Radiometer (IIR) Level 2 Swath, V5-00 V5-00 CALIPSO IIR 2006-06-12 to 2023-06-30 HDF4
CALIPSO Infrared Imaging Radiometer (IIR) Level 2 Track, V4-51 V4-51 CALIPSO IIR 2006-06-12 to 2023-06-30 HDF4
CALIPSO Infrared Imaging Radiometer (IIR) Level 2 Track, V5-00 V5-00 CALIPSO IIR 2006-06-12 to 2023-07-01 HDF4
CALIPSO Lidar Level 1B profile data, V5-00 V5-00 CALIPSO CALIOP 2006-06-12 to 2023-06-30 HDF4, netCDF-3
CALIPSO Lidar Level 2 1 km Cloud Layer, V4-51 V4-51 CALIPSO CALIOP 2006-06-12 to 2023-06-30 HDF4
CALIPSO Lidar Level 2 1 km Cloud Layer, V5-00 V5-00 CALIPSO CALIOP 2006-06-12 to 2023-06-30 HDF4
CALIPSO Lidar Level 2 1/3 km Merged Layer, V4-51 V4-51 CALIPSO CALIOP 2006-06-12 to 2023-06-30 HDF4
CALIPSO Lidar Level 2 1/3 km Merged Layer, V5-00 V5-00 CALIPSO CALIOP 2006-06-12 to 2023-06-30 HDF4
CALIPSO Lidar Level 2 5 km Cloud Layer, V4-51 V4-51 CALIPSO CALIOP 2006-06-12 to 2023-06-30 HDF4
CALIPSO Lidar Level 2 5 km Merged Layer, V4-51 V4-51 CALIPSO CALIOP 2006-06-12 to 2023-06-30 HDF4
CALIPSO Lidar Level 2 5 km Merged Layer, V5-00 V5-00 CALIPSO CALIOP 2006-06-12 to 2023-06-30 HDF4
CALIPSO Lidar Level 2 5km Cloud Layer, V5-00 V5-00 CALIPSO CALIOP 2006-06-12 to 2023-06-30 HDF4
CALIPSO Lidar Level 2 Aerosol Profile, V5-00 V5-00 CALIPSO CALIOP 2006-06-12 to 2023-06-30 HDF4
CALIPSO Lidar Level 2 Cloud Profile, V4-51 V4-51 CALIPSO CALIOP 2006-06-12 to 2023-06-30 HDF4
CALIPSO Lidar Level 2 Cloud Profile, V5-00 V5-00 CALIPSO CALIOP 2006-06-12 to 2023-06-30 HDF4

Clouds Data Tools

Tool Sort descending Description Services
ASDC CALIPSO Search and Subset Tool The CALIPSO Search and Subset web application enables a more sophisticated approach to selecting and ordering CALIPSO lidar data by date, time and geolocation. Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization
SOOT NASA's Sub-Orbital Order Tool (SOOT) provides users with suborbital field campaign data discovery and download capabilities. Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization
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