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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 Version Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Spatial Extent Spatial Resolution Data Format
First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) Marine Stratocumulus Ceilometer and Cross-chain Loran Atmospheric Sounding System (CLASS) Data 1 GROUND STATIONS CLASS, RAWINSONDES, CEILOMETERS 1987-06-30 to 1987-07-19 Binary
First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) Marine Stratocumulus Colorado State University (CSU) Tethered Balloon Data 1 GROUND STATIONS, BALLOONS PSYCHROMETERS, PYRANOMETERS, Pyrgeometer 1987-07-07 to 1987-07-14 Binary
First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) Marine Stratocumulus ISCCP Stage DX Pixel Level Cloud Product - Revised Algorithm Data 1 NOAA-10, NOAA-9, GOES-6 AVHRR-2, RADIOMETERS, VISSR 1987-07-01 to 1987-07-31 Binary
First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) Marine Stratocumulus Microwave Radiometer Data 1 GROUND STATIONS MR, RADIOMETERS 1987-07-01 to 1987-07-19 ASCII
First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) Marine Stratocumulus NASA ER-2 Cloud Lidar System Data 1 NASA ER-2 LIDAR 1987-07-08 to 1987-07-18 ASCII
First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) Marine Stratocumulus National Center forAtmospheric Research (NCAR) Electra Aircraft Data 1 NCAR ELECTRA PARTICLE DETECTORS, ALTIMETERS, AEROSOL MONITOR, TEMPERATURE SENSORS, WIND MONITOR, FSSP, GUST PROBES, Hotwire LWC, HYGROMETERS, LIDAR, PMS, PRESSURE TRANSDUCERS, PRT, PYRANOMETERS, Pyrgeometer, VIDEO CAMERA 1987-06-29 to 1987-07-18 ASCII
FLASHFlux Daily Gridded Single Satellite TOA and Surfaces/Clouds data in HDF Version 4A Version4A Terra, Aqua CERES-FM1, CERES-FM3 2018-12-01 to 2023-02-28 HDF4, netCDF-4
FLASHFlux Daily Gridded TOA and Surfaces/Clouds data Version 4B Version4B Terra, NOAA-20 CERES-FM1, CERES-FM6 2021-12-21 to 2024-04-01 HDF4, NetCDF-4
FLASHFlux Daily Gridded TOA and Surfaces/Clouds data Version 4C Version4C Terra, NOAA-20 CERES-FM1, CERES-FM6 2021-12-21 to 2025-04-01 HDF4, netCDF-4
FLASHFlux NOAA-20 Daily Gridded TOA and Surfaces/Clouds data Version 1A Version1A NOAA-20 CERES-FM6 2023-12-30 to Present HDF4, 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
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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