NASA Langley PACS-EPIC

  Cloud Products for PACS Domain:

• Oct 2001
• Cloud Products for Stratus Cruise 2003 and 2004

  EPIC 2001 Diurnal Gifs

  Examples of PACS Cloud Products:

• Cloud Amount
• Optical Depth
• Ice/Water Particle/Drop Size
• Ice/Liquid Water Path

  Presentations:

• VAMOS,   April 5-8 2000, Santiago, Chile.

  Satellite Imagery:

• Real-time Satellite Imagery Page for PACS

  PACS Cloud Products:

These are beta-level results and should be used with caution (updated 9/7/01). They are made available primarily for program development and interface and for initial studies of the PACS area. Please check with Patrick Minnis (p.minnis@larc.nasa.gov)for any technical questions or before using these data in any publication. A revised version of the results will be made generally available after the processing algorithms are completely verified. A reference for these data is Ayers et al. 2001 (see Related References section below for pdf file of this paper).


• Daily netcdf files (sample header description):   1999, 2000 and 2001.
  
• Monthly means for 1999:   plots and ascii data
  
• Monthly means for 2000:   plots and ascii data.
  
  

Related References:

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Ayers, J.K., P. Minnis, R. Wood, P. W. Heck, D.F. Young, W.L. Smith,Jr., C. W. Fairall, and T. Uttal, 2002: Validation of GOES-8 Derived Cloud Properties Over the Southeastern Pacific. AGU 2002 Fall Meeting. Extended PDF (~900K), Abbreviated PDF (~460K), Extended Powerpoint (~3MB), Abbreviated Powerpoint (~3MB)

Ayers, J.K., P. Minnis, P. W. Heck, A. D. Rapp, D.F. Young, W.L. Smith,Jr., and L. Nguyen, 2002: A One-Year Climatology of Cloud Properties Derived from GOES-8 Over the Southeastern Pacific for PACS. Proc. AMS 11th Conference on Cloud Physics.

Ayers, J.K., P. Minnis, D.F. Young, W.L. Smith,Jr., and L. Nguyen, 2001: Development of a Climatology of Cloud Properties Over the Southeastern Pacific for PACS. Proc. AMS 11th Conf. Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, pp 176-179.

Garreaud, R. D., J. Rutllant, J. Quintana, J. Carrasco, and P. Minnis, 2000: CIMAR-5: A snapshot of the lower troposphere over the subtropical southeast Pacific. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol. 82, pp 2193-2207.

Sharon, T. M., B. A. Albrecht, H. H. Jonsson, P. Minnis, M. M. Khaiyer, T. M. Van Reken, J. Seinfeld, and R. Flagan, 2006: Aerosol and cloud microphysical characteristics of rifts and gradients in maritime stratocumulus clouds. J. Atmos. Sci., 63, 983-997.