Climatology Interdisciplinary Data Collection (CIDC): Ensemble of Global Marine and Land-Surface Monthly Mean Climate Parameters

In Autumn 1995, the Goddard Distributed Active Archive Center (GDAAC) compiled the Climatology Interdisciplinary Data Collection (CIDC) to facilitate interdisciplinary studies related to climate and global change. This data collection has been produced in collaboration with the Center for Earth Observing and Space Research (CEOSR), Institute for Computational Sciences and Informatics (CSI), and George Mason University. It was designed for the study of global change, seasonal to interannual climate change, and other phenomena that require from one to dozens of interacting parameters.

A few of the possible study areas are the depletion of stratospheric ozone, the weather changes associated with the periodic El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events, periodic droughts, and global warming. Short background information scenarios are given on the CD for the Monsoon, El Niño, and global warming phenomena.

The CD set also contains read software and the Gridded Analysis and Display System (GrADS).

Data from the scientific disciplines dealing with meteorology and atmospheric sciences, land surface, ocean, cryosphere, biosphere, the Sun, and remote sensing science have been gathered into one place and, where feasible, presented in a common format (monthly means with a 1° x 1° world grid, or commensurable resolution and IEEE 32-bit floating point numbers). Over 70 physical parameters from some 25 separate datasets are represented. The Data Collection Overview document on the CDs lists alphabetically all the physical parameters along with the dataset(s) in which they can be found. It also contains a separate listing of each dataset, its origin, and the parameters included. Each dataset is also accompanied by a detailed user's guide.

The Climatology Interdisciplinary Data Collection (CIDC) has been subdivided into seven categories. The grouping is influenced by the types of physical parameters involved and partially by the way that they are processed. Because of this the same physical parameter may appear in several datasets and in more than one category. When this occurs different algorithms have normally been used to produce the parameter. The included datasets included below.

Atmospheric dynamics & atmospheric sounding products

Radiation and clouds

Biosphere data

Measured variable atmospheric constituents

Measured surface temperature and pressure

Hydrological data

Remote sensing science

The data on the CD set was collected in a variety of ways, using remote sensing, direct measurements, and model output. The individual datasets were provided in a variety of forms. In some cases this required the data publication team to regrid and reformat datasets and in others to produce monthly averages from finer resolution data. The specific handling for each dataset is detailed in the documentation. The regridded, reformatted, integrated, and peer reviewed datasets are published on this four-volume CD collection.

The data are held online at the BADC are public and are made available for browsing purposes.

Volume 1: Biosphere, Hydrology, Surface Temperature, Ozone, Greenhouse Gases

Volume 2: Atmospheric Dynamics

Volume 3: Radiation and Clouds

Volume 4: Atmospheric Surroundings

Date (Publication): 1997-12-10T02:30:40

Date (Creation): 1997-12-10T02:30:40

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/952240c4d03cfcfdef1590a4bad64ffb

Citation identifier: Goddard Space Flight Center Distributed Active Archive Center (GSFC DAAC) / 952240c4d03cfcfdef1590a4bad64ffb

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)		unknown	Author
Unavailable	Kyle, H.L.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	McManus, J.M.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Ahmad, S.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Hrubiak, P.L.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Kafatos, M.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Yang, R.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Li, Z.	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
Goddard Space Flight Center Distributed Active Archive Center (GSFC DAAC)		unknown	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Update scope: Series

Keywords

CIDC
atmosphere
land surface
ocean
cryosphere
biosphere
remote sensing
sun

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: 1980-02-01T00:00:00

End date: 1994-08-30T23:00:00

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/952240c4d03cfcfdef1590a4bad64ffb	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/erbe/references.html	BADC Doc: CIDC List of references

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/cidc/doc.html	CIDC Documentation

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: 952240c4d03cfcfdef1590a4bad64ffb XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Series

Hierarchy level name: series

Date stamp: 2026-01-15T03:25:33

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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