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METEOSAT Climate Data Set

Entry ID: MARF_CDS

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Summary

Abstract: The Climate Data Set (CDS) product is essentially a condensed form of
the information contained in the raw image segments. The mean pixel
count, the standard deviation and the number of pixels of pixel count
clusters, corresponding to radiation providing scenes of the earth's
surface and of clouds, are given. It also includes the IR mean pixel
count of the clusters corrected for atmospheric ...

Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: 82.0

S: -82.0

E: 82.0

W: -82.0

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1978-02-01

Location Keywords

OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN

OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > MEDITERRANEAN SEA

Science Keywords

ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD PROPERTIES > CLOUD FREQUENCY

ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD TYPES

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

IMAGERY/BASE MAPS/EARTH COVER

Platform

METEOSAT-1

METEOSAT-2

Instrument

IMAGING RADIOMETERS

RADIOMETERS

Ancillary Keywords

ATTITUDE DATA

CALIBRATION DATA

Originating Center

MARF/EUMETSAT

Data Center

European Meteorological Satellite Organisation

Data Center URL: http://www.eumetsat.de/
Dataset ID: CDS

Data Center Personnel
Name: RICHARD ANTHONY FRANCIS Phone: +49 6151 807 583 Fax: +49 6151 807 379 Email: francis at eumetsat.de Contact Address: EUMETSAT Am Kavalleriesand 31 City: Darmstadt Postal Code: 64295 Country: Germany