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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.

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Global Forest Ecosystem Structure and Function Data For Carbon Balance Research 1 NOAA-14 AVHRR 1897-01-01 to 2006-12-31

N: 67.36 S: -42.87 E: 172.75 W: -159.5

Shapefile
Global Monthly Climatology for the Twentieth Century (New et al.) 1 COMPUTERS Computer 1900-01-01 to 1998-12-31

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

ASCII
GOES CPEX-CV 1 GOES-16 ABI 2022-09-06 to 2022-09-30

N: 67.044532775879 S: 3.2196230888367 E: 5.6536154747009 W: -84.093238830566

netCDF-4
GOES-R PLT Cloud Physics LiDAR (CPL) 1 NASA ER-2 CPL 2017-03-23 to 2017-05-17

N: 43.5723 S: 26.4487 E: -65.3628 W: -118.234

ASCII, HDF5
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
GPM GROUND VALIDATION MCGILL W-BAND RADAR GCPEX V1 1 GROUND STATIONS W-Band Radar 2012-02-01 to 2012-02-29

N: 44.2336 S: 44.2328 E: -79.7802 W: -79.781

netCDF-3
GPM GROUND VALIDATION MICRO RAIN RADAR (MRR) NASA ACHIEVE IPHEX V1 1 GROUND STATIONS MRR 2014-05-06 to 2014-06-15

N: 35.562 S: 35.482 E: -83.044 W: -83.176

ASCII
GPM GROUND VALIDATION NASA S-BAND DUAL POLARIMETRIC (NPOL) DOPPLER RADAR IFLOODS 2 GROUND STATIONS NPOL 2013-04-30 to 2013-06-16

N: 42.2708 S: 42.2656 E: -92.5056 W: -92.5128

UF
GPM GROUND VALIDATION NCAR CLOUD MICROPHYSICS PARTICLE PROBES GCPEX 1 UND CITATION II CIPS, HVPS-3, PMS 2D-C PROBE 2012-01-19 to 2012-02-24

N: 46.3966 S: 43.4595 E: -78.7659 W: -80.549

ASCII, netCDF-4
GPM GROUND VALIDATION NCAR CLOUD MICROPHYSICS PARTICLE PROBES MC3E 1 UND CITATION II 2DC, CIPS, HVPS-3 2011-04-22 to 2011-06-02

N: 37.5 S: 35.5 E: -96.5 W: -98.5

ASCII
GPM Ground Validation NCAR Particle Probes IPHEx 1 UND CITATION II 2DC, 2DS, HVPS 2014-05-09 to 2014-06-12

N: 36.4839 S: 30.3971 E: -75.3234 W: -84.934

ASCII
GPM Ground Validation NCAR Particle Probes OLYMPEX 1 UND CITATION II 2DC, 2DS, HVPS 2015-11-12 to 2015-12-20

N: 48.3535 S: 46.2209 E: -97.1811 W: -126.129

ASCII
GPM Ground Validation Optical Disdrometer (ODM) LPVEx 1 R/V ARANDA ODM 2010-09-15 to 2010-09-26

N: 60.2792 S: 59.3778 E: 25.5378 W: 21.3281

ASCII
GPM Ground Validation Precipitation Imaging Package (PIP) ICE POP V1 1 GROUND STATIONS PIP 2017-06-18 to 2018-12-30

N: 37.7382 S: 37.6652 E: 128.806 W: 128.7

ASCII
GPM Ground Validation Precipitation Imaging Package (PIP) University of Connecticut (UCONN) 1 GROUND STATIONS PIP 2021-09-15 to 2024-05-21

N: 41.828 S: 41.798 E: -72.248 W: -72.304

ASCII-CSV, PNG, AVI
GPM Ground Validation Precipitation Occurrence Sensor System (POSS) LPVEx V1 1 GROUND STATIONS POSS 2010-09-17 to 2011-04-20

N: 60.4847 S: 60.2038 E: 25.6248 W: 25.0822

ASCII
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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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