Cloudnet Data Archive
Accessing Cloudnet data
NEW! Cloudnet release products (level 1c and above) are now available for
download from this site
Please read the following pages before accessing Cloudnet data:
Then email Ewan O'Connor for
the username and password.
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Access for Cloudnet participants
Access to preliminary data is restricted to Cloudnet
participants.
- CLOUDNET Web archive at
Reading: In addition to the release datasets it contains
Chilbolton instrumental data and preliminary data. Email Ewan O'Connor for the
password.
- KNMI FTP
site: Contains instrumental data from the Cabauw site. The
data are in the CLOUDNET_DBASE directory. Email Henk Klein Baltink for
the password.
- SIRTA
FTP site: Contains instrumental data from the Palaiseau
site. No password is required at the prompt, just hit return.
Data formats
Most Cloudnet data is provided in NetCDF format,
conforming to the
Providers of data to Cloudnet should read this document, as well as
specific pages to radar
and lidar data. For
details about individual datasets, see the individual product pages.
Some level 1a data from passive instruments (radiometers and rain
gauges) are provided in NASA Ames
format.
Model data are converted to a common NetCDF format (PDF documentation), but
the original formats used by the model providers are described here:
Further details about the models may be found here: