International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project: ISCCP-D1, ISCCP-D2 and ISCCP-C2 cloud products dataset collection

The International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) was based at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. ISCCP was sponsored by the World Climate Research Programme for the purpose of "collecting and analyzing satellite radiance measurements to infer the global distribution of cloud radiative properties and their diurnal and seasonal variations".

This dataset collection contains the global three-hourly cloud products (ISCCP-D1), global monthly cloud products (ISCCP-D2), using the revised algorithm, at 280 km spatial resolution and and monthly cloud analysis products (ISCCP-C2) at 250 km spatial resolution.

There are more than 200 variables contained within the datasets.

Note - that that the temporal range of the datasets presented here are contain data available from the NASA Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) covers the full extent available at the time of the dataset publication in the CEDA archives, begin in July 1983 and extend through to December 1999 (D1), 2006 (D2) and 1990 (C1). Fuller versions of the datasets are available from ASDC directly. These limited copies were obtained to aid researcher access within the UK community at the time.

Date (Publication): 2002-12-10T02:33:12

Date (Creation): 2002-12-10T02:33:12

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/5890110c9f806a2fb14f9030898def43

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 5890110c9f806a2fb14f9030898def43

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP)		unknown	Author
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA GISS)		unknown	Author
Unavailable	Rossow, William B.	Unavailable	Author
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
ISCCP Archive Contact Center		satorder@ncdc.noaa.gov	pointofContact
Langley Distributed Active Archive Center		unknown	pointofContact
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Update scope: Series

Keywords

ISCCP
NASA
cloud

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 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/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.

Other constraints: Under the following licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/, 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: 1983-01-01T00:00:00

End date: 2006-06-30T22:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
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Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/5890110c9f806a2fb14f9030898def43	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

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

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/isccp_d1/docs	ISCCP-D1 Document Directory

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/isccp_d1/var.html	BADC Doc: ISCCP-D1 List of variables

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/isccp_d1/references.html	BADC Doc: ISCCP-D1 References

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://isccp.giss.nasa.gov/docs/documents.html	ISCCP Project Documents

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/isccp_d2/docs	ISCCP-D2 Docs Directory

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/isccp/var.html	BADC Doc: ISCCP-C2 List of variables

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/isccp/references.html	BADC Doc: ISCCP-C2 References

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/isccp_d2/var.html	BADC Doc: ISCCP-D2 List of variables

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/isccp_d2/references.html	BADC Doc: ISCCP-D2 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.

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File identifier: 5890110c9f806a2fb14f9030898def43 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Series

Hierarchy level name: series

Date stamp: 2025-06-16T02:26:36

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Point of contact

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