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An acknowledgement of the ISCCP resources is appreciated if you are publishing any scientific materials using any of the data and/or products found in this website or ordered through any of our data archive centers. The following are samples of acknowledgement statements.

The ISCCP D2 data/images were obtained from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project web site http://isccp.giss.nasa.gov maintained by the ISCCP research group at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY. on January, 2005. Rossow, W.B., and Schiffer, R.A., 1999: Advances in Understanding Clouds from ISCCP. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 80, 2261-2288.

The ISCCP DX data were obtained from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project data archives at NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC Satellite Services Group, ncdc.satorder@noaa.gov, on January, 2005. Rossow, W.B., and Schiffer, R.A., 1999: Advances in Understanding Clouds from ISCCP. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 80, 2261-2288.

Also note that you should reference the ISCCP project and/or data product descriptions as appropriate.

ISCCP Project:
Schiffer, R.A., and Rossow, W.B., 1983: The International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP): The First Project of the World Climate Research Programme. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 64, 779-784.

ISCCP B3 Radiance Data Set:
Schiffer, R.A., and Rossow, W.B., 1985: ISCCP Global Radiance Data Set: A New Resource for Climate Research. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 66, 1498-1505.

ISCCP Cloud Data Products:
Rossow, W.B., and Schiffer, R.A., 1999: Advances in Understanding Clouds from ISCCP. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 80, 2261-2288.

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