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MISR Level 3 Component Global Cloud Product covering a quarter (seasonal) V002

Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.5067/terra/misr/mil3qcld_l3.002

This file contains the public MISR Level 3 Component Global Cloud Product covering a quarter (seasonal).

Description

MIL3QCLD_002 is the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) Level 3 Component Global Cloud Product covering a quarter (seasonal) version 2 data product. It is a global summary of relevant Level 1 and Level 2 cloud parameters, averaged over a quarter (season) and reported on a geographic grid, with a resolution of 0.5 degree by 0.5 degree.

The seasons are winter (December from the previous year, January, February), spring (March, April, May), summer (June, July, August), and fall (September, October, November). Data collection for this product is ongoing. The MISR instrument consists of nine push-broom cameras that measure radiance in four spectral bands.

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Global coverage is achieved in nine days. The cameras are arranged with one camera pointing toward the nadir, four forward, and four aftward. It takes seven minutes for all nine cameras to view the exact surface location.

The view angles relative to the surface reference ellipsoid are 0, 26.1, 45.6, 60.0, and 70.5 degrees. The spectral band shapes are nominally Gaussian, centered at 443, 555, 670, and 865 nm. MISR is designed to view Earth with cameras in 9 different directions.

As the instrument flies overhead, each piece of Earth's surface below is successively imaged by all nine cameras in 4 wavelengths (blue, green, red, and near-infrared). The goal of MISR is to improve our understanding of the effects of sunlight on Earth and distinguish different types of clouds, particles, and surfaces. Specifically, MISR monitors the monthly, seasonal, and long-term trends in three areas: 1) amount and type of atmospheric particles (aerosols), including those formed by natural sources and by human activities; 2) amounts, types, and heights of clouds, and 3) distribution of land surface cover, including vegetation canopy structure.

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Cloud Amount · Earth Observing System, Terra (AM-1) · Multi-Angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer · Wind Speed
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Astronomy & Astrophysics · Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics
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