International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project C2 (ISCCP-C2): Global monthly cloud analysis products

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 analysing satellite radiance measurements to infer the global distribution of cloud radiative properties and their diurnal and seasonal variations".

This dataset contains the global monthly cloud analysis products (ISCCP-C2), at 250 km spatial resolution. They are derived from monthly averages of data taken with three-hour resolution. The products include monthly averages of calibrated radiances, cloud detection results, and cloud and surface properties from radiative analysis. There are 72 variables contained within the data set. The data available at the time of publication begin in July 1983 and extend through December 1990.

Date (Publication): 2002-04-25T15:53:49

Date (Creation): 2002-04-25T15:53:49

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/da4da4fad5a74db486db3e4a13adbe9d

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / da4da4fad5a74db486db3e4a13adbe9d

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP)		unknown	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	Rossow, William B.	Unavailable	Principal investigator
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	pointofContact
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

ISCCP
NASA
cloud

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.

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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.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1986-11-17T00:00:00

End date: 1990-12-31T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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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/da4da4fad5a74db486db3e4a13adbe9d	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/CDs/isccpc2/data	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/GUIDE/dataset_documents/base_isccp_c1_c2_dataset.html	International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) Cloud Analysis (C1 and C2) Langley Atmospheric Science Data Center Data Set Document

Hierarchy level: Dataset

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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: Data obtained during the period from July 1983 to December 1990 by satellite. Data acquired from the Langley Atmospheric Sciences Data Center in 2002 and archived at the BADC as-is.

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File identifier: da4da4fad5a74db486db3e4a13adbe9d XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Parent identifier: International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project: ISCCP-D1, ISCCP-D2 and ISCCP-C2 cloud products dataset collection
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Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2025-12-12T03:06:45

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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