The Cloud Product monitors the physical and radiative properties of clouds including cloud particle phase (ice vs. water, clouds vs. snow), effective cloud particle radius, cloud optical thickness, cloud shadow effects, cloud top temperature, cloud top height, effective emissivity, cloud phase (ice vs. water, opaque vs. non-opaque), and cloud fraction under both daytime and nighttime conditions. The ESDT names are MOD06_L2 (Terra) and MYD06_L2 (Aqua).
Tracking of known problems and subsequent fixes is an important issue for Continuity Atmosphere data users. This page will act as a repository of all known Continuity Atmosphere Data Product problems, as well as how to determine the problematic version (and the fixed version if available) of the NetCDF4 data -- therefore data users should check this page for updates regularly.
L3 CLDPROP (Cloud Properties) Format & Content
L3 CLDPROP (Cloud Properties) File Specification
L2 CLDPROP (Cloud Properties) File Specification
L3 CLDPROP (Cloud Properties) Product Description
L2 CLDPROP (Cloud Properties) Product Description
Cloud Data Issues
Look Up Tables (LUTs)
A number of ancillary data files are input into the 06_L2 HDF file. (Information provided by Gala Wind)
Ancillary File List:
NCEP GDAS
Used by Cloud Top Properties (CT) and Cloud Optical Properties (OD).
Cloud Retrieval Group (L2 Cloud Product 06_L2)
Cloud Retrieval