The datasets consist of 11 climatologies based on measurements from 5 different sensors types:
- Multi-spectral imagers : ISCCP, PATMOS-x, AVHRR-Cloud, AVHRR-CLARA (> 1980s)
- Advanced multi-spectral imagers : MODIS-CE, MODIS-CLDPROP (VIIRS continuity) (> 2000s)
- IR sounders : AIRS-CIRS, IASI-CIRS (> 2003)
- Multi-angle solar sepctral-imager : MISR (> 2000)
- Active lidar : CALIPSO-ST, CALIPSO-GOCCP (> 2006)
CALIPSO-ST provides TopLayer, Passive (COD > 0,3), OPAQUE (COD > 3), Column, IIR (CEM, COD, CRE, CWP)
Data access :
- One can download the data via anonymous ftp:
ftp ftp.climserv.ipsl.polytechnique.fr
cd gewexca/update_v2 - or use this thredds adress :
https://thredds-x.ipsl.fr/thredds/catalog/GEWEX_CA/catalog.html
using wget command (wget -P “$DESTINATION_PATH” -e robots=off -nH –cut-dirs 4 -nc -r -l5 -A “_””2007″”.nc” -R ‘catalog*’ -I /thredds/fileServer/,/thredds/catalog/ “https://thredds-x.ipsl.fr/thredds/catalog/GEWEX_CA/AIRS-CIRSv2/2007/catalog.html”)