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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.

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Dataset Version Platform Instrument Temporal Extent Spatial Extent Spatial Resolution Data Format
OMPS-NPP L2 NM Cloud Pressure and Fraction swath orbital V2 (OMPS_NPP_NMCLDRR_L2) at GES DISC 2 Suomi-NPP OMPS 2011-11-13 to Present

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

ORACLES Aerosol Cloud Aircraft Remote Sensing Data 1 NASA P-3, NASA ER-2 RSP-2, RSP-1, HSRL-2, AMPR, APR-3 2016-07-28 to 2019-03-23

N: 40.71 S: -23.56 E: 14.94 W: -125.94

ICARTT, HDF5, NetCDF-3, NetCDF-4
ORACLES Cloud Aircraft InSitu Data 1 NASA P-3 4STAR, FPDR-PDI, 2DS, CAPS, CAS, CIP, HVPS, CDP 2016-08-24 to 2018-10-28

N: 37.95 S: -27.06 E: 14.94 W: -77.62

ICARTT
ORACLES Merge Data Files 1 NASA P-3, NASA ER-2 Computer 2016-07-28 to 2019-03-23

N: 37.95 S: -34.95 E: 14.94 W: -76.44

NetCDF-4
OWLETS-1 Analysis Model Data 1 GEOS Computer 2017-07-17 to 2017-07-22

N: 41 S: 34 E: -73 W: -79

NetCDF-4
PACE HARP2 Level-2 Regional Cloud Optical Properties, GISS Polarimetric Cloud (GPC) Algorithm - Near Real-time (NRT) Data, version 3.0 3.0 PACE HARP2 2024-02-05 to Present

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

netCDF-4
PACE HARP2 Level-2 Regional Cloud Optical Properties, GISS Polarimetric Cloud (GPC) Algorithm - Near Real-time (NRT) Data, version 4.0 4.0 PACE HARP2 2024-02-05 to Present

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

netCDF-4
PACE HARP2 Level-2 Regional Cloud Optical Properties, GISS Polarimetric Cloud (GPC) Algorithm Data, version 3.0 3.0 PACE HARP2 2024-02-05 to Present

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

netCDF-4
PACE HARP2 Level-2 Regional Cloud Optical Properties, GISS Polarimetric Cloud (GPC) Algorithm Data, version 4.0 4.0 PACE HARP2 2024-02-05 to Present

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

netCDF-4
PACE HARP2 Level-3 Global Mapped Cloud Optical Properties, GISS Polarimetric Cloud (GPC) Algorithm - Near Real-time (NRT) Data, version 3.0 3.0 PACE HARP2 2024-02-05 to Present

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

netCDF-4
PACE HARP2 Level-3 Global Mapped Cloud Optical Properties, GISS Polarimetric Cloud (GPC) Algorithm - Near Real-time (NRT) Data, version 4.0 4.0 PACE HARP2 2024-02-05 to Present

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

netCDF-4
PACE HARP2 Level-3 Global Mapped Cloud Optical Properties, GISS Polarimetric Cloud (GPC) Algorithm Data, version 3.0 3.0 PACE HARP2 2024-02-05 to Present

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

netCDF-4
PACE HARP2 Level-3 Global Mapped Cloud Optical Properties, GISS Polarimetric Cloud (GPC) Algorithm Data, version 4.0 4.0 PACE HARP2 2024-02-05 to Present

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

netCDF-4
PACE OCI Level-2 Regional Cloud Mask - Near Real-time (NRT) Data, version 3.1 3.1 PACE OCI 2024-03-05 to Present

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

netCDF-4
PACE OCI Level-2 Regional Cloud Mask Data, version 3.1 3.1 PACE OCI 2024-03-05 to Present

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

netCDF-4
PACE OCI Level-2 Regional Cloud Optical Properties - Near Real-time (NRT) Data, version 3.1 3.1 PACE OCI 2024-03-05 to Present

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

netCDF-4
PACE OCI Level-2 Regional Cloud Optical Properties Data, version 3.1 3.1 PACE OCI 2024-03-05 to Present

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

netCDF-4
PACE OCI Level-3 Global Mapped Cloud Mask - Near Real-time (NRT) Data, version 3.1 3.1 PACE OCI 2024-03-05 to Present

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

netCDF-4
PACE OCI Level-3 Global Mapped Cloud Mask Data, version 3.1 3.1 PACE OCI 2024-03-05 to Present

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

netCDF-4
PACE OCI Level-3 Global Mapped Cloud Optical Properties - Near Real-time (NRT) Data, version 3.1 3.1 PACE OCI 2024-03-05 to Present

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

netCDF-4
PACE OCI Level-3 Global Mapped Cloud Optical Properties Data, version 3.1 3.1 PACE OCI 2024-03-05 to Present

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

netCDF-4
PACE-PAX CIRPAS Twin Otter In-Situ Aerosol Retrieval Algorithm (ISARA) Analysis Data 1 TWIN OTTER CIRPAS NPS Computer 2024-09-03 to 2024-09-29

N: 38.1 S: 33.62 E: -116.98 W: -124.24

NetCDF-4
PACE-PAX ER-2 High Spectral Resolution Lidar-2 Data 1 NASA ER-2 HSRL-2 2024-09-06 to 2024-10-01

N: 40.77 S: 32.56 E: -113.22 W: -127.56

HDF5, PDF
PACE-PAX ER-2 Research Scanning Polarimeter (RSP) Data 1 NASA ER-2 RSP-2 2024-08-29 to 2024-10-02

N: 42.42 S: 31.58 E: -112.42 W: -128.52

NetCDF-4
PACE-PAX ER-2 Spectro-Polarimeter for Exploration - Airborne (SPEX Airborne) Data 1 NASA ER-2 SPEX Airborne 2024-08-28 to 2024-10-01

N: 42.54 S: 31.36 E: -112.16 W: -128.76

NetCDF-4, PDF
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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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