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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
Polar Radiant Energy in the Far InfraRed Experiment (PREFIRE) Satellite 1 Cloud Mask R01 PREFIRE-SAT1 TIRS-PREFIRE 2024-07-24 to Present GLOBAL, ARCTIC, POLAR netCDF-4
Polar Radiant Energy in the Far InfraRed Experiment (PREFIRE) Satellite 2 Cloud Mask R01 PREFIRE-SAT2 TIRS-PREFIRE 2024-06-29 to Present GLOBAL, ARCTIC, POLAR netCDF-4
POLARIS Analysis Model Data NASA ER-2, Data Analysis 1997-01-06 to 1997-09-26 ARCTIC, NORTHERN HEMISPHERE, ALASKA AMES
POLARIS Photolysis Frequencies (J-Values) NASA ER-2 CPFM 1997-01-06 to 1997-09-26 ARCTIC, NORTHERN HEMISPHERE, ALASKA AMES
POLDER/Parasol L2 Radiation Budget subset along CloudSat track V001 (PARASOLRB_CPR) at GES DISC PARASOL POLDER-1 2006-06-01 to 2010-01-31 GLOBAL
Reduced Resolution Geolocated and Calibrated TOA Radiance ENVISAT MERIS 2002-04-29 to 2012-04-08 GLOBAL Envisat N1
Reduced Resolution Geophysical Product for Ocean, Land and Atmosphere ENVISAT MERIS 2002-04-29 to 2012-04-08 GLOBAL netCDF4-zipped
Remote Sensing Systems Radiometer Rain Collocations with JPL RapidScat L2B Swath Grid DMSP 5D-3/F15, CORIOLIS, DMSP 5D-3/F17, GPM, GCOM-W1, DMSP 5D-3/F16, ISS SSM/I, WINDSAT, SSMIS, GMI, AMSR2, RapidScat 2014-10-03 to 2016-02-11 GLOBAL netCDF-4
RSS SSM/I OCEAN PRODUCT GRIDS 3-DAY AVERAGE FROM DMSP F10 NETCDF V7 DMSP 5D-2/F10 SSM/I 1990-12-06 to 1997-11-14 GLOBAL OCEAN netCDF-4
RSS SSM/I OCEAN PRODUCT GRIDS 3-DAY AVERAGE FROM DMSP F11 NETCDF V7 DMSP 5D-2/F11 SSM/I 1991-12-01 to 2000-05-16 GLOBAL OCEAN netCDF-4
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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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