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Clouds Data Access and Tools

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 Version Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Spatial Extent Spatial Resolution Data Format
CERES Time-Interpolated TOA Fluxes, Clouds and Aerosols Monthly NOAA-20 Edition1B Edition1B NOAA-20 CERES-FM6, VIIRS 2018-05-01 to Present HDF4
CERES Time-Interpolated TOA Fluxes, Clouds and Aerosols Monthly NOAA-20 Edition1C Edition1C NOAA-20 CERES-FM6, VIIRS 2018-05-01 to Present HDF4
CERES Time-Interpolated TOA Fluxes, Clouds and Aerosols Monthly Terra Edition4A Edition4A Terra CERES-FM1, CERES-FM2, MODIS 2000-03-01 to Present HDF4
CERES-MODIS-VIIRS and hourly geostationary cloud properties stratified by ISCCP cloud types for day and night. Edition4A Terra, NOAA-20 MODIS, VIIRS 2018-05-01 to Present HDF4
CLAMS CV-580 Cloud Absorption Radiometer (CAR) 1 Convair-580 CAR 2001-07-10 to 2001-08-02 HDF4
CLAMS-Chesapeake Lighthouse and Aircraft Measurements for Satellites Un. Washington Convair-580 aircraft measurements 1 CONVAIR CV-580 TSI-3563 Neph, FSSP, CHEMILUMINESCENCE, HYGROMETERS, RADIOMETERS 2001-07-10 to 2001-08-02 ASCII
Cloud Camera Data (FIFE) 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION CAMERAS 1987-03-05 to 1989-08-12

N: 39.08 S: 39.08 E: -96.56 W: -96.56

CSV
Cloud Radar System (CRS) IMPACTS 1 NASA ER-2 CRS 2020-01-25 to 2023-02-28

N: 48.658 S: 31.073 E: -64.894 W: -95.46

HDF-5
Configurable Scanning Submillimeter-wave Instrument/Radiometer (CoSSIR) ALOFT 1 NASA ER-2 COSSIR 2023-06-15 to 2023-07-29

N: 35.925 S: 10.321 E: -79.761 W: -119.334

netCDF-4
Configurable Scanning Submillimeter-wave Instrument/Radiometer (CoSSIR) IMPACTS 1 NASA ER-2 COSSIR 2023-01-05 to 2023-03-02

N: 49.36 S: 26.395 E: -66.647 W: -115.701

netCDF-4
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Clouds Data Tools

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Tool 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
Earthdata Search Earthdata Search enables data discovery, search, comparison, visualization, and access across NASA’s Earth science data holdings. Search and Discovery, Access, Cataloging, Cloud Computing, Downloading
SOOT NASA's Sub-Orbital Order Tool (SOOT) provides users with suborbital field campaign data discovery and download capabilities. Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization
Worldview Worldview offers the capability to interactively browse over 1,200 global, full-resolution satellite imagery layers and download the underlying data. Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization, Access, Comparison, Monitoring Natural Events
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