The ORNL DAAC announces the release of a data set from the Radiation and Clouds category of the International Satellite Land-Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP) Initiative II.
ISLSCP II Cloud and Meteorology Parameters . This data set, prepared by P.W. Stackhouse and S. K. Guptat, contains monthly data for for several cloud and meteorological parameters including monthly surface skin temperature, monthly total column ozone, and water vapor burdens. All monthly parameters include files with a monthly mean value, a monthly standard deviation, and monthly minimum and maximum values for the period 1986-1995.
International Satellite Land-Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP)
The ISLSCP Initiative II data collection is designed to support modeling studies of the global carbon, water and energy cycle. This data collection contains 50 global time series spanning the ten-year period 1986 to 1995 compiled under the guidance of Forrest Hall and colleagues at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The data for Initiative II were acquired from a number of U.S. and international agencies, universities, and institutions, then co-registered to equal-angle grids of one degree, one-half and one-quarter degree resolution and reformatted into a common ASCII format.
The collection includes a variety of remotely sensed data sets ranging from visible to microwave wavelengths. The data sets also include improved topography, surface radiation, near-surface meteorology, precipitation, runoff, soils, and vegetation data sets that can be used in a variety of interdisciplinary research activities. Several data sets to support global carbon and biogeochemical studies are also provided.
The ORNL DAAC is a NASA-funded data center archiving and distributing terrestrial ecology and biogeochemical dynamics data.