Details of product

Product characteristics

Product group:
Climate Data Records
Product family:
COMET ed. 1.0
Product name:
CFC - Fractional cloud cover
Area:
METEOSAT full disk (includes Europe, Africa, Atlantic Ocean)
Temporal resolution:
Monthly
Statistics:
Mean diurnal-cycle
Spatial resolution:
Latitude/longitude grid (0.05x0.05 degree)
Data source:
MVIRI/SEVIRI on METEOSAT
Temporal coverage:
1991-01-01 – 2015-12-01
Geographic coverage:
Latitude: -65.00° S to 65.00° N
Longitude: -65.00° W to 65.00° E
V001
Documentation:
Citation / DOI:
Stöckli, Reto; Duguay–Tetzlaff, Anke; Bojanowski, Jedrzej; Hollmann, Rainer; Fuchs, Petra; Werscheck, Martin (2017): CM SAF ClOud Fractional Cover dataset from METeosat First and Second Generation - Edition 1 (COMET Ed. 1), Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring, DOI:10.5676/EUM_SAF_CM/CFC_METEOSAT/V001, https://doi.org/10.5676/EUM_SAF_CM/CFC_METEOSAT/V001.

Product adaptations

The product described above is appropriate for your purposes but you are interested in a different projection, spatial resolution and/or domain? Then check out our new feature: reprojection and interpolation to global latitude/longitude grid and optional cut out of a user-specific sub-domain.