Abstract:
NOAA has computed monthly total and normalized monthly total
grids from daily 1-degree grids of highly reflective clouds
(HRC) for January 1971 to December 1985. In addition to these
grids, there are grids indicating the number of missing days in
the monthly total grids, and long term means and standard
deviations of normalized monthly total grids.
These data are based on once daily visible pictures from
orbiting satellites. The pictures were manually inspected for
highly reflective clouds. If a 1-degree latitude-longitude square was
dominated by such clouds that were likely to be associated with
precipitation, a "yes" was recorded for the square.
Temporal Range:
1971-01 to 1985-12
Data Contributors:
DOC/NOAA/OAR/ESRL/GMD
Global Monitoring Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Data Formats:
Binary (see dataset documentation), ASCII (see dataset documentation)
Related RDA Datasets:
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NOAA Highly Reflective Cloud (HRC) Analyses, daily 1971-1987
Metadata Record:
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