International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project - Initiative I (ISLSCP I) Dataset

The International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project was established in 1983 under the United Nation's Environmental Programme to promote the use of satellite data for the global land surface data sets needed for climate studies. This CD-ROM set contains the Initiative I data collection.

The collection four areas : land cover, hydro-meteorology, radiation, and soils, spanning the 24 month period 1987-1988. All but one are mapped to a common spatial resolution and grid (1 degree x 1 degree). Temporal resolution for most datasets is monthly; however, a few are at a finer resolution (e.g., 6-hourly). The data within the four areas are organized into five groups within this collection: vegetation, Hydrology and Soils, Snow, Ice and Oceans, Radiation and Clouds, and Near-Surface Meteorology. This dataset collection is public.

While ISLSCP Inititative I covers 2 years (1987 and 1988), ISLSCP Inititative II spans a 10-year period for 1986 to 1995.

Date (Publication): 1996-12-10T03:05:45

Date (Creation): 1996-12-10T03:05:45

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/48c9cd8b8dd43490c8d786a28e9c1a44

Citation identifier: NASA Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) / 48c9cd8b8dd43490c8d786a28e9c1a44

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA Goddard)		unknown	Author
GEWEX ISLSCP Project		unknown	Author
Unavailable	Sellers, P.J.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Meeson, B.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Closs, J.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Collatz, G. James	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Corprew, F.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Dazlich, D.A.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Hall, F.G.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Kerr, Y.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Koster, R.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Los, Sietse O.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Mitchell, Karl L.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	McManus, J.M.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Myers, D.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Sun, K.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Try, P.	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
NASA Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC)		unknown	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Update scope: Series

Keywords

Satellite
Land Surface
Climatology

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Please contact the data centre for assistance on accessing data from this dataset collection.

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/missing_licence.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under unstated 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: 1987-01-01T00:00:00

End date: 1988-12-31T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
Contact data centre for format details.

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/48c9cd8b8dd43490c8d786a28e9c1a44	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.gewex.org/islscp.html	GEWEX ISLSCP website

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/islscp2/	ISLSCP II at the BADC

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/islscp/status.html	BADC Doc: ISLSCP I Status page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/islscp/met.html	ISLSCP - Near Surface Meteorology

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/islscp/rad.html	ISLSCP - Radiation and Clouds

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/islscp/vegetation.html	ISLSCP - Vegetation: Land cover and Biophysics

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/islscp/doc.html	BADC Doc: ISLSCP Documentation

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/islscp/hydro.html	ISLSCP - Hydrology and soils

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/islscp/snow.html	ISLSCP - Snow, Ice and Oceans

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/islscp/references.html	BADC Doc: ISLSCP I List of References

Hierarchy level: Series

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

Metadata

File identifier: 48c9cd8b8dd43490c8d786a28e9c1a44 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Series

Hierarchy level name: series

Date stamp: 2026-02-25T03:26:13

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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