Attributes { HDF5_GLOBAL { String ShortName "MODIS_CR_Equal_Angle_3h"; String LongName "MODIS Cloud Regime Level-3 3-Hourly 1 deg x 1 deg"; String title "MODIS_CR_Equal_Angle_3h"; String VersionID "1.0"; String history "[20210628]T[173421]Z : original file created at NASA GSFC"; String Format "NetCDF4"; String ProcessingLevel "Level-3"; String IdentifierProductDOIAuthority "http://dx.doi.org/"; String IdentifierProductDOI "10.5067/MEASURES/MODISCR/EQANG3H/DATA301"; String Conventions "CF-1.7"; String source "MODIS"; String MapProjection "Geographic Equidistant Cylindrical Projection"; String DataSetQuality "Equal-Area gridding of MODIS data is verified to be consistent with official Level-3 products. Cloud regimes derived from k-means clustering are checked for robustness by repetition with different random seeds. Final cloud regimes are evaluated against CloudSat/CALIPSO."; String ContactPersonName "Lazaros Oreopoulos"; String ContactPersonEmail "lazaros.oreopoulos@nasa.gov"; String institution "NASA Goddard Space Flight Center"; String InputDataProducts "MODIS_CR_Equal_Area_3h"; String InputDataProductVersion "1.0"; String GranuleID "MODIS_CR.EqualAngle_3h.C61.V1.0.L3.2007.nc4"; String references "Cho, N., J. Tan, and L. Oreopoulos, 2021: Classifying planetary cloudiness with an updated set of MODIS Cloud Regimes. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, in press, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-20-0247.1."; String ProductionDateTime "2021-06-28T17:34:21Z"; String RangeBeginningDate "2006-12-31"; String RangeBeginningTime "22:30:00"; String RangeEndingDate "2007-12-31"; String RangeEndingTime "22:29:59"; String SouthernmostLatitude "-90"; String NorthernmostLatitude "90"; String WesternmostLongitude "-180"; String EasternmostLongitude "180"; String Description "1 deg x 1 deg MODIS Cloud Regime (CR) derived from interpolating from 110-km equal-area MODIS CRs. Equal-area MODIS CRs derived from k-means clustering of 16 years (2003–2018) of MODIS Terra and Aqua Collection 6.1 observations of cloud top pressure and cloud optical thickness gridded in a 110-km equal-area grid. Only joint-histograms with at least 120 pixels are ingested into the k-means clustering using a subset based on latitude such that the global sampling is representative."; String comment "1 deg x 1 deg MODIS Cloud Regime (CR) derived from interpolating from 110-km equal-area MODIS CRs. Equal-area MODIS CRs derived from k-means clustering of 16 years (2003–2018) of MODIS Terra and Aqua Collection 6.1 observations of cloud top pressure and cloud optical thickness gridded in a 110-km equal-area grid. Only joint-histograms with at least 120 pixels are ingested into the k-means clustering using a subset based on latitude such that the global sampling is representative."; } MODIS_Terra_CR { String long_name "MODIS_Terra_Cloud_Regime"; Int32 _FillValue -99; String units "1"; Int16 valid_range 1, 12; String comments "CR1 to CR11 are outputs from the k-means clustering. CR12 is the clear sky regime."; String coordinates "longitude latitude time"; String origname "MODIS_Terra_CR"; String fullnamepath "/MODIS_Terra_CR"; } COT_bounds { String long_name "bounds_of_cloud_optical_thickness_bin"; Int16 valid_range 0, 150; String coordinates "edge COT"; String origname "COT_bounds"; String fullnamepath "/COT_bounds"; } centroids { String long_name "centroids_of_cloud_regimes"; Float32 _FillValue -999.0000000; String units "%"; Int16 valid_range 0, 100; String comments "global mean of all 2003-2019 joint histograms assigned to CR"; String coordinates "COT CTP cr"; String origname "centroids"; String fullnamepath "/centroids"; } MODIS_Aqua_CR { String long_name "MODIS_Aqua_Cloud_Regime"; Int32 _FillValue -99; String units "1"; Int16 valid_range 1, 12; String comments "CR1 to CR11 are outputs from the k-means clustering. CR12 is the clear sky regime."; String coordinates "longitude latitude time"; String origname "MODIS_Aqua_CR"; String fullnamepath "/MODIS_Aqua_CR"; } CTP_bounds { String long_name "bounds_of_cloud_top_pressure_bin"; Int16 valid_range 0, 1100; String coordinates "edge CTP"; String origname "CTP_bounds"; String fullnamepath "/CTP_bounds"; } COT { String long_name "cloud optical thickness dimension"; String units "1"; String bounds "COT_bounds"; String origname "COT"; String fullnamepath "/COT"; } CTP { String long_name "cloud top pressure dimension"; String units "hPa"; String bounds "CTP_bounds"; String origname "CTP"; String fullnamepath "/CTP"; } cr { String long_name "index of Cloud Regime"; String units "1"; String origname "cr"; String fullnamepath "/cr"; } edge { String long_name "lower limit, upper limit"; String units "1"; String origname "edge"; String fullnamepath "/edge"; } latitude { String long_name "latitude"; String units "degrees_north"; Int16 valid_range -90, 90; String origname "latitude"; String fullnamepath "/latitude"; } longitude { String long_name "longitude"; String units "degrees_east"; Int16 valid_range -180, 180; String origname "longitude"; String fullnamepath "/longitude"; } time { String long_name "time"; String units "days since 2000-03-01 00:00:00"; String comments "UTC hour at center of window"; String calendar "none"; String origname "time"; String fullnamepath "/time"; } }