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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 Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Location Keywords Data Format
NCAR Particle Probes IMPACTS NASA P-3 CDP, CPI PROBES, HVPS, PMS 2D-S PROBE 2020-01-18 to 2023-02-28 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA netCDF-4
New York State Mesonet IMPACTS GROUND STATIONS BAROMETERS, DISDROMETERS, LIDAR, RADIOMETERS, THERMOMETERS, WIND PROFILERS 2020-01-03 to 2023-03-02 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PNG
Nimbus-7 Narrow Field of View (NFOV) Maximum Likelihood Cloud Estimation (MLCE) Data in Native Format Nimbus-7 ERB 1979-05-01 to 1980-05-31 GLOBAL Binary
NRT AMSR2 L2B GLOBAL SWATH GSFC PROFILING ALGORITHM 2010: SURFACE PRECIPITATION, WIND SPEED OVER OCEAN, WATER VAPOR OVER OCEAN AND CLOUD LIQUID WATER OVER OCEAN GCOM-W1 AMSR2 GLOBAL HDF-EOS-5
NRT AMSR2 Unified Global Swath Surface Precipitation GSFC Profiling Algorithm V1 GCOM-W1 AMSR2 GLOBAL netCDF-4; HDF-EOS5
NRT AMSR2 Unified Global Swath Surface Precipitation GSFC Profiling Algorithm V2 GCOM-W1 AMSR2 2021-10-01 GLOBAL netCDF-4 - HDF-EOS5
NRT AMSR2 Unified L2B Global Swath Ocean Products V1 GCOM-W1 AMSR2 2020-06-01 GLOBAL netCDF-4 - HDF-EOS5
OMI/Aura and MODIS/Aqua Merged Cloud Product 1-Orbit L2 Swath 13x24 km V003 (OMMYDCLD) at GES DISC Aura, Aqua OMI, MODIS 2004-10-01 to Present GLOBAL
OMI/Aura Cloud Pressure and Fraction (O2-O2 Absorption) 1-Orbit L2 Swath 13x24km V003 (OMCLDO2) at GES DISC Aura OMI 2004-10-01 to Present GLOBAL
OMI/Aura Cloud Pressure and Fraction (O2-O2 Absorption) 200-km swath subset along CloudSat track V003 (OMCLDO2_CPR) at GES DISC Aura OMI 2006-06-01 to 2018-03-02 GLOBAL
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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
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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