ABSTRACT

Individual surface weather observations from land stations and ships are compared with individual cloud retrievals of the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP), stage C1, for an 8-yr period (198391) to relate cloud optical thicknesses and cloud-top pressures obtained from satellite data to the standard cloud types reported in visual observations from the surface.

Each surface report is matched to the corresponding ISCCP-C1 report for the time of observation for the 280 km x 280 km grid box containing that observation. Classes of the surface reports are ...

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