Hei,
in grib, clouds are described as low, medium and high clouds, e.g.
73,74,75. Those are described by phenomenon, e.g.
high cloud type: Clouds of genera Cirrus, Cirrocumulus and Cirrostratus.
low cloud type: Clouds of genera Stratocumulus, Stratus, Cumulus, etc.
medium cloud type:
Hello Heiko,
I don't have a strong opinion, but am just testing the water ...
I wonder how one would define these standard names so that they were
correct for all uses, for example from a three layer model to the
ISCCP datasets.
In your example, would a model_level_number coordinate of [1, 2,
Hi Heiko,
I support your proposal to add low_cloud_area_fraction,
low_cloud_area_fraction, and high_cloud_area_fraction.
Just for information for all:
(1) There is something called high cloud etc as Heiko says.
(2) It's misunderstanding that whatever cloud located in high layer
becomes
Hello David,
Cloud types (lo/mid/hi) of ISCCP described at
http://isccp.giss.nasa.gov/cloudtypes.html is classification of height of
cloud, observed in infrared image of satellite.
Heiko is talking about cloud types of the same name, but it's NWP product.
They are not necesarily matching to
Hei David,
I'm not familiar with the ISCCP datasets, but in a fast look on there
web-page, it seems like the have already a translation to the 3 WMO
clouds: http://isccp.giss.nasa.gov/cloudtypes.html
It is not that we run a 3 layer model. We compare our 20-130 layer
models, and we do it on
Dear Bert
a) A rectangular model in some UTM coordinates (or possibly a local
derivative of that) in which x for all practical purposes measures
distance east and y distance north. If we take the term true
longitude in the definition of x_wind loosely, then we would have
to write
Hi andrew:
The file you sent (20110818T001140Z_M_HI504BEN.nc) appears to be a
single profile. Assuming that, you would use the following template:
http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-conventions/1.6/cf-conventions.html#idp8363696
note that lat, lon and time coordinates all have to be
