1.3 CMOR Variable: CALIPSO Total Cloud Cover Percentage (cltcalipso)

Record Label : cltcalipso

Record Title : CALIPSO Total Cloud Cover Percentage

Record Identifier : baaaf4a0-e5dd-11e5-8482-ac72891c3257

Link to a record specifying the structure of the variable : str-013

MIP Variable : cltcalipso

Deflate: NetCDF compression parameter :

Deflate Level: NetCDF compression parameter :

Shuffle: NetCDF compression parameter :

Indicative priority for this parameter, which is over-ruled by the requestVar priority setting, but provides a reference for organisation of the CMORvariables : 1

Data value type, e.g. float or double : real

Modeling Realm : atmos

CMOR Directive Positive :

Section of a table : CFmon_sim

Link to MIP table record : CFmon

The MIP table : CFmon

Provenance : CFmon ((isd.003))

Provenance Note : CFmon_sim

Frequency of Time Steps to be Archived : mon

Row index of entry in source sheet : 66

Description : Total cloud area fraction (reported as a percentage) for the whole atmospheric column, as seen by the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) instrument. Includes both large-scale and convective cloud.

Sub-group of variables in a table : cfMon_sim

Request variable (carrying priority and link to group) :