Towards the Development of Global Scale Transferability of Inference Schemes for Radiative Forcing Functions under the CEOP Initiative 

Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
University of Maryland, College Park


Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
 


Background

Approach

Parameters

Domain

Results
   
Available Data

Reference

Collaboration

Acknowledgements

Contacts

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Domain and Data Sources

Domain

Monsoon Regions

Spatial resolution 0.125 deg, hourly

Satellite Data Sources
METEOSAT-5
METEOSAT-7

GOES-8 and 12

 

 
Global Scale

Spatial resolution 1 deg, twice a day

Satellite Data Sources
 MODIS

 

 

 

 

 

 
Sources of Auxiliary Data
NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis
IMS snow data from NSIDC
Rainfall from GPCP and the IITM Pune, India
ERA-40  

 

 

 

 
Maintained by Chuan Li cli@atmos.umd.edu