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• Cloud Climatology: Variable definitions, color maps & plots, and downloadable datasets of:
• cloud cover fraction,
• cloud top pressure,
• cloud top temperature, and its mesoscale variability,
• cloud optical thickness, and its mesoscale variability,
• cloud particle size and refined values of optical thickness (UNAVAILABLE),
• cloud water path,
  cloud types defined by top pressure and optical thickness,
• cloud vertical structure from rawinsondes (UNAVAILABLE),
• statistical model of cloud vertical structure (UNAVAILABLE),
• cloud base pressure (UNAVAILABLE).
• GEWEX Cloud System Study Data Integration for Model Evaluation (GCSS-DIME)
• Surface Climatology: Variable definitions, and downloadable datasets of
• snow and ice cover fraction,
• surface skin temperature,
• surface air temperature (UNAVAILABLE),
• land surface visible and near-infrared (UNAVAILABLE), and
  total albedo (AVAILABLE),
• surface infrared and microwave emissivities
• Radiative Flux Climatology: Color maps and plots of radiative fluxes
• at top-of-atmosphere (AVAILABLE),
• at 100 mb (UNAVAILABLE),
• at 440 mb (UNAVAILABLE),
• at 680 mb (UNAVAILABLE), and
• at the surface (AVAILABLE).
• Radiance calibrations for the visible and window infrared channels on all weather satellites with reference to a single absolute standard.

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