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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

Dataset Sort descending Version Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Spatial Extent Spatial Resolution Data Format
GPM GROUND VALIDATION ADVANCED MICROWAVE RADIOMETER RAIN IDENTIFICATION (ADMIRARI) GCPEX V1 1 GROUND STATIONS ADMIRARI, CLOUD LIDAR, MRR 2012-01-14 to 2012-02-29

N: 44.29 S: 44.18 E: -79.73 W: -79.82

ASCII
GPM Ground Validation Autonomous Parsivel Unit (APU) ICE POP V1 1 GROUND STATIONS APU 2015-10-13 to 2018-07-01

N: 38.2509 S: 37.3779 E: 129.124 W: 128.378

ASCII
GPM Ground Validation Cloud Physics LiDAR (CPL) OLYMPEX V1 1 NASA ER-2 CPL 2015-11-09 to 2015-12-15

N: 49.6338 S: 34.1575 E: -117.774 W: -130.045

ASCII - HDF5
GPM Ground Validation Cloud Radar System (CRS) OLYMPEX V1 1 NASA ER-2 CRS 2015-11-10 to 2015-12-10

N: 49.634 S: 34.1576 E: -117.774 W: -129.328

netCDF-3
GPM GROUND VALIDATION CLOUD SPECTROMETER AND IMPACTOR (CIP) LPVEX V1 1 UWKA CPI PROBES, PMS 2D-S PROBE 2010-08-06 to 2010-10-20

N: 61.36 S: 60.06 E: 25.37 W: 25.04

ASCII
GPM GROUND VALIDATION DUAL-FREQUENCY DUAL-POLARIZED DOPPLER RADAR (D3R) GCPEX 1 GROUND STATIONS D3R, DOPPLER RADAR 2012-01-03 to 2012-02-29

N: 44.5021 S: 43.9631 E: -79.5122 W: -80.0512

netCDF-4
GPM GROUND VALIDATION DUAL-FREQUENCY DUAL-POLARIZED DOPPLER RADAR (D3R) IFLOODS 1 GROUND STATIONS D3R 2013-05-09 to 2013-06-13

N: 42.5 S: 42 E: -90.1 W: -92.9

netCDF-3
GPM GROUND VALIDATION ENVIRONMENT CANADA (EC) VAISALA CEILOMETER GCPEX V1 1 GROUND STATIONS CEILOMETERS 2012-01-15 to 2012-03-01

N: 44.5 S: 43.5 E: -78.5 W: -79.5

Binary
GPM GROUND VALIDATION GCPEX SNOW MICROPHYSICS CASE STUDY V1 1 NASA DC-8, GROUND STATIONS, UND CITATION II APR-2, CIPS, D3R, DPR, HVPS, PMS 2D-C PROBE 2012-02-24 to 2012-02-25

N: 46.3966 S: 43.4595 E: -78.7616 W: -80.4026

netCDF-4
GPM Ground Validation Joss-Waldvogel Disdrometer (JW) LPVEx V1 1 GROUND STATIONS JW DISDROMETER 2010-09-10 to 2010-11-09

N: 60.495 S: 60.475 E: 25.092 W: 25.072

ASCII
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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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