Global Cloud and Aerosol Dataset Produced by the Global Retrieval of ATSR Cloud Parameters and Evaluation (GRAPE) Project as part of the Clouds, Water Vapour and Climate (CWVC) Programme

• Published by: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
• Last updated: 19 December 2016
• Topic: Environment
• Licence: Open Government Licence ; View licence information

Summary

The aim of the GRAPE project was to produce a global cloud and aerosol dataset using a state-of-the-art physical retrieval of the entire duration of the Along Track Scanning Radiometer 2 (ATSR-2) mission (aboard ERS-2). This dataset will be compared and contrasted with existing climatologies (based on different instruments and very different retrieval algorithms). The GRAPE project was initially funded through the Clouds, Water Vapour and Climate (CWVC) Programme, a five-year NERC directed research programme. The dataset has been developed further within the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) and now includes data from the Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR). The GRAPE dataset contains cloud optical depth, aerosol optical depth (cloud free), cloud phase, cloud particle size, cloud top pressure, cloud fraction and cloud ice/water path along with associated error measurements.

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Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
BADC Doc: GRAPE news items	N/A	19 December 2016	Not available
BADC Doc: GRAPE Background Information	N/A	19 December 2016	Not available
Other CWVC Projects	N/A	19 December 2016	Not available
The ATSR Website	N/A	12 September 2016	Not available
Oxford University GRAPE website	N/A	12 September 2016	Not available
Dataset Homepage	N/A	12 September 2016	Not available

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2017-07-17
• Access contraints: Public; Licence: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
• Harvest GUID: a575281a-65c2-42bf-9d40-a0a67bb428be
• Extent: Latitude: 90.0° to -90.0°
• Extent: Longitude: -180.0° to 180.0°
• Spatial reference system: urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700
• Dataset reference date: 2006-12-10T02:34:41 (publication)
• Dataset reference date: 2006-12-10T02:34:41 (creation)
• Frequency of update: asNeeded
• Responsible party: (ceda_officer, author); British Atmospheric Data Centre (custodian, publisher, distributer, point_of_contact, metadata_owner, curator); Polaris House (author); University of Oxford, Atmospheric, Oceanic & Planetary Physics (author)
• ISO 19139 resource type: series
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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