Field

CRU TS4.06 cloud fraction
CRU TS4.06.01 Cloud Cover
X axis: whole world in 720 0.50° steps, first point at 179.75° W, last point at 179.75° E
Y axis: regular grid with 360 0.50° steps, first point at 89.75° S, last point at 89.75° N

Monthly data available from Jan1901 to Dec2021 (1452 months)
Variable cld (cloud cover) in percentage
Full metadata. The associated land/sea mask is available for some operations

Get grid points, average area or generate subset

Mask:	no mask   add a mask to the list
Latitude:	°N - °N
Longitude:	°E - °E
Boundaries:	halfway grid points interpolated
Make:	average max min set of grid points subset of the field
Demand at least:	% valid points in this region
Considering:	everything land points sea points show/hide more only land points only sea points not land points not sea points
Units:	convert to 1 leave in percentage

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New time scale:	annual (Jul-Jun) annual (Jan-Dec) biannual seasonal
New variable:	mean sd sum sum above sum below number min time of min max time of max first time last time of cloud fraction
Threshold:	no cut less than greater than percentage percentile normal 1971-2000
Minimum:	% valid data
First apply:	-month running mean
Missing data:	ignore, climatology, trend, persistence.

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Average over blocks of longitude and latitude grid cells

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If you really want to get it here, CRU TS4.06 cloud fraction is available as a netcdf file (size 198.349 MB).

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