Monthly Brightness Temperature (BT) Animations derived from high resolution BT images as part of the Cloud Archive User Service (CLAUS) Project.

Global Brightness Temperature imagery animations from the Cloud Archive User Service project. This project produced a long time-series of global thermal infra-red imagery of the Earth using data from operational meteorological satellites, which was used in validating atmospheric General Circulation Models.

The higher resolution CLAUS data were used to create monthly animations for educational purposes. The movie collection spans the period 1983-1994.

For detailed information about the CLAUS data (processing, quality, etc) please see available documentation (Docs).

Date (Publication): 2013-04-09T20:09:47

Date (Creation): 2013-04-09T20:09:47

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/1d9c0ece56c9b9867327d4308729c80e

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 1d9c0ece56c9b9867327d4308729c80e

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Environmental Systems Science Centre (ESSC)		unknown	Author
Unavailable	Robinson, Gary	Unavailable	Author
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Custodian
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor
Unavailable	Robinson, Gary	Unavailable	Principal investigator
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	pointofContact
Unavailable	Hodges, Kevin	Unavailable	pointofContact
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

CLOUDS
CLAUS
temperature
ATMOSPHERE

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

Access constraints: Other restrictions

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Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Under the following licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1983-06-30T23:00:00

End date: 1994-12-31T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
The CLAUS monthly animations are stored in Apple's Quicktime format, using Photo JPEG (high) compression. To help with geographical orientation land is slightly embossed. A brightness temperature key and the date/time of the individual images are printed on the bottom right-hand corner.

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/1d9c0ece56c9b9867327d4308729c80e	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/claus/data/channel_2/movies	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/claus/doc/UserGuide.pdf	CLAUS User Guide

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/claus/doc/picture_gallery.html	CLAUS Picture Gallery

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://zenodo.org/record/7356824/files/CLAUSReport.pdf	CLAUS Final Report

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: Data obtained during the period from April 1997 to December 1999 by satellites. Latest version of the CLAUS data (4.7) was acquired as is from Dr Gary Robinson (University of Reading) in December 2009, and is stored in the BADC archive. Data updates from June 2006 to June 2009 were obtained from the data supplier in May 2013.

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File identifier: 1d9c0ece56c9b9867327d4308729c80e XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Parent identifier: Long Time Series of Global Thermal Infra-red Imagery of the Earth as part of the Cloud Archive User Service (CLAUS) Project
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Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2026-03-11T03:02:19

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Point of contact

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