Clouds

AOMIP models will use a prescribed monthly cloud climatology based on the OMIP forcing (Roeske, 2002). The details are as follows: file tsm_org.nc is a NetCDF file, which contains 12 monthly mean global cloud data sets in units of [0,1]. The spatial coverage is global and no topographic mask is applied. Note that these are monthly means of daily OMIP cloud data. Download the file using the link to the right.