Cloudnet products for release

This page lists the Cloudnet products available for general release and links to the detailed product pages. Note that for access to single-instrument datasets (level 1b and earlier) you will need to contact the maintainer of the site archive concerned.

Level 1b

Refined retrieval of liquid water path using liquid cloud height/occurrence information from lidar and coefficients from forecast model:

• Liquid water path (radiometer-lidar-model method)

• Met Office mesoscale model
• Met Office NAE model
• Met Office global model
• ECMWF model
• Météo France model
• KNMI RACMO model
• SMHI RCA model
• DWD Lokal Modell

Level 1c

Combined cloud radar, lidar microwave radiometer, rain gauge and model data with regridding, correction for attenuation, reporting of measurement errors, data quality flags and categorization of targets:

• Instrument Synergy/Target Categorization

Level 2a

General products (not specific to one cloud type):

• Target classification and cloud boundaries
• Turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate

• Liquid water content (linear scaled adiabatic method)
• Stratocumulus effective radius and number concentration: coming soon
• Stratocumulus drizzle (radar-lidar method)
• Liquid water content (Delft lidar-radar method)

• Ice water content (radar-temperature method)
• Ice water content (RadOn vtz IPSL method)
• Ice cloud properties (radar-lidar method)
• Ice cloud properties (radar-lidar IPSL method)

Level 2b

Observed cloud fraction (derived from the target categorization dataset) on the grids of the various models:

• Cloud fraction on Met Office mesoscale model grid
• Cloud fraction on Met Office global model grid
• Cloud fraction on ECMWF model grid
• Cloud fraction on Météo France model grid
• Cloud fraction on RACMO model grid
• Cloud fraction on SMHI RCA model grid
• Cloud fraction on DWD Lokal Modell grid

Observed water content on the grids of the various models:

• Ice water content (radar-temperature method) on Met Office Mesoscale model grid
• Ice water content (radar-temperature method) on Met Office Global model grid
• Ice water content (radar-temperature method) on ECMWF model grid
• Ice water content (radar-temperature method) on Météo France model grid
• Ice water content (radar-temperature method) on RACMO model grid
• Ice water content (radar-temperature method) on SMHI RCA model grid
• Ice water content (radar-temperature method) on DWD Lokal Modell grid

• Liquid water content (scaled adiabatic method) on Met Office Mesoscale model grid
• Liquid water content (scaled adiabatic method) on Met Office Global model grid
• Liquid water content (scaled adiabatic method) on ECMWF model grid
• Liquid water content (scaled adiabatic method) on Météo France model grid
• Liquid water content (scaled adiabatic method) on RACMO model grid
• Liquid water content (scaled adiabatic method) on SMHI RCA model grid
• Liquid water content (scaled adiabatic method) on DWD Lokal Modell grid

Level 3

Monthly and yearly cloud fraction statistics and skill scores for each model:

• Evaluation statistics of Met Office Mesoscale model cloud fraction
• Evaluation statistics of Met Office Global model cloud fraction
• Evaluation statistics of ECMWF model cloud fraction
• Evaluation statistics of Météo France model cloud fraction
• Evaluation statistics of RACMO model cloud fraction
• Evaluation statistics of SMHI RCA model cloud fraction
• Evaluation statistics of DWD Lokal Modell cloud fraction

Monthly and yearly ice water content statistics and skill scores for each model:

• Evaluation statistics of Met Office Mesoscale model ice water content
• Evaluation statistics of Met Office Global model ice water content
• Evaluation statistics of ECMWF model ice water content
• Evaluation statistics of Météo France model ice water content
• Evaluation statistics of RACMO model ice water content
• Evaluation statistics of SMHI RCA model ice water content
• Evaluation statistics of DWD Lokal Modell ice water content

Monthly and yearly liquid water content statistics and skill scores for each model:

• Evaluation statistics of Met Office Mesoscale model liquid water content
• Evaluation statistics of Met Office Global model liquid water content
• Evaluation statistics of ECMWF model liquid water content
• Evaluation statistics of Météo France model liquid water content
• Evaluation statistics of RACMO model liquid water content
• Evaluation statistics of SMHI RCA model liquid water content
• Evaluation statistics of DWD Lokal Modell liquid water content