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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 Version Sort ascending Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Spatial Extent Spatial Resolution Data Format
SCOAPE Ground Site Data 1 GROUND STATIONS CEILOMETERS, CAPS NO2 Analyzer 2019-04-09 to 2019-05-21 HDF5, ICARTT
CAR SnowEx17 Snow Mass and Energy Measurements L1 V1 (CAR_SNOWEX17_L1C) at GES DISC 1 NRL P-3 CAR 2017-02-16 to 2017-03-04

N: 40.2003 S: 37.6731 E: -78.1139 W: -108.41

JPSS1 CrIS-VIIRS 750-m Matchup Indexes V1 (J1_CrIS_VIIRS750m_IND) at GES_DISC 1 JPSS-1 CrIS, VIIRS 2018-03-01 to 2023-01-01

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 ICARTT, HDF5, NetCDF-3, NetCDF-4
CAMEX-4 CLOUD MICROPHYSICS V1 1 NASA DC-8 FSSP, PARTICLE SPECTROMETERS, PMS 2D-C PROBE, PMS 2D-P PROBE 2001-08-18 to 2001-09-25

N: 39.71 S: 16.5317 E: -58.635 W: -88.215

ASCII
ISLSCP II Cloud and Meteorology Parameters 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1986-01-01 to 1995-12-31

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

Shapefile
First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) Cirrus 2 Volume Imaging Lidar (VIL) Cirrus Scan Data 1 GROUND STATIONS LIDAR, VIL 1991-11-18 to 1991-12-06 GIF
First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) Cirrus Phase II NCAR Sabreliner Aircraft 2D Probe Data 1 Airplane PMS 2D-C PROBE, PMS 2D-P PROBE 1991-11-17 to 1991-12-07 ASCII
LBA-ECO CD-03 Cloud Base-Backscatter Data, km 67 Tower Site, Tapajos National Forest 1 GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS CEILOMETERS 2001-04-07 to 2003-12-22

N: -2.857 S: -2.857 E: -54.959 W: -54.959

CSV
DISCOVER-AQ Maryland Deployment UC-12 Aircraft Remotely Sensed High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL) Data 1 UC-12B HSRL 2011-06-30 to 2011-11-19 HDF5
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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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