Long Time Series of Global Thermal Infra-red Imagery of the Earth as part of the Cloud Archive User Service (CLAUS) Project

Global Brightness Temperature imagery from the Cloud Archive User Service (CLAUS) 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 CLAUS archive currently spans the period 1st July

1983 - 30th June 2009. Responsibility for maintaining and updating the

CLAUS archive resides with the Environmental Systems Science Centre (ESSC).

The source data used in CLAUS are the level B3 (reduced resolution) 10 micron radiances from operational meteorological satellites participating in the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Programme (ISCCP) and were obtained from the NASA Langley Atmospheric Sciences Data Center (LASDC).

During the CLAUS project the B3 data were processed to create a uniform latitude-longitude grid (or image) of Brightness Temperature (BT) values at a spatial resolution of 0.5 by 0.5 degrees and temporal resolution of three hours. Information at the grid point level about the satellites used in

generating each BT image, and the type of interpolation applied, was held in two supplementary quality files.

The B3 data were also rigorously quality controlled to remove residual noise and navigation/calibration errors that were noticed in the original processing. The 0.5 degree resolution data were updated and

supplemented by a new product at one-third degree spatial resolution for use in process studies. These higher resolution data are also being used to create monthly animations for educational purposes.

Date (Publication): 2002-12-10T03:03:01

Date (Creation): 2002-12-10T03:03:01

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/37e1193a2369aff54d22a40ac402030b

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 37e1193a2369aff54d22a40ac402030b

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
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: Unknown

Update scope: Series

Keywords

CLAUS
cloud
imagery
temperature

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

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Use constraints: Other restrictions

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Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

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

End date: 2009-06-29T23:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
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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/37e1193a2369aff54d22a40ac402030b	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

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

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://isccp.giss.nasa.gov/	The ISCCP Website

OnLine resource

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

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/claus/doc/status.html	CLAUS Data Version History

Hierarchy level: Series

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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: Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.

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File identifier: 37e1193a2369aff54d22a40ac402030b XML

Metadata language: English

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Hierarchy level: Series

Hierarchy level name: series

Date stamp: 2026-02-25T03:26:27

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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