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VIIRS/NOAA20 Cloud Properties COSP Level 3 daily, 1x1 deg. grid

Metadata Updated: February 22, 2025

The VIIRS/NOAA20 Cloud Properties COSP Level 3 daily, 1x1 degree grid product is a new L3 CLDPROP COSP Cloud product with short-name CLDPROPCOSP_D3_VIIRS_NOAA20. It contains VIIRS NOAA-20 cloud mask, cloud top, and cloud optical retrieval data over daily timeframe. It provides a set of custom cloud-related parameters for better comparison with climate model output. The “COSP” acronym in the short-name stands for Cloud Feedback Model Intercomparison Project (CFMIP) Observation Simulator Package. Provided in netCDF4 format, it contains 32 aggregated science data sets (SDS/parameters).

Consult the CLDPROPCOSP User Guide for details regarding how the L3 daily statistics are computed, and to learn more about the gridding and sampling protocols specific to this product and a number of other topics germane to the user community. The collection of this product starts from February 17, 2018 and includes 365 granules each calendar year.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date February 22, 2025
Metadata Updated Date February 22, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from nasa test json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date February 22, 2025
Metadata Updated Date February 22, 2025
Publisher Not provided
Maintainer
Identifier C2946990777-LAADS
Data First Published 2024-02-10
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2025-02-19
Category NOAA - SPACE WEATHER PROGRAM, geospatial
Public Access Level public
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Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/CLDPROPCOSP_D3_VIIRS_NOAA20.011
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Program Code 026:001
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Temporal 2018-02-17T00:00:00Z/2025-02-03T00:00:00Z

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