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Short name:

CLAUS

Full name:

Cloud Archive User Service data

Summary:

Global Brightness Temperature imagery from the Cloud Archive User Service 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.

Web page:

/data/claus/

Description  

Geographical keywords  

Parameter list

Coverage

Start date

01-jul-1983

End date

31-dec-1994

Bounding box

   Northerly latitude

90N

   Southerly latitude

90S

   Easterly longitude

0E

   Westerly longitude

0W

Resolution

Latitude resolution

0.5 degrees

Longitude resolution

0.5 degrees

Time resolution

3 hours

Dataset information

Data directory

/badc/claus/

File format

PNM

Dataset size (Mb)

9000 + 18000

Access constraints

Restricted - requires registration with BADC

Status

Incomplete

Update frequency

TBD

Stored on

NEAR_LINE_TAPE

Distributed by

FTP



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