- Dataset Availability
- 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z–2024-11-30T18:00:00Z
- Dataset Provider
- NOAA
- Earth Engine Snippet
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ee.ImageCollection("NOAA/NCEP_DOE_RE2/total_cloud_coverage")
- Tags
Description
NCEP-DOE Reanalysis 2 project is using a state-of-the-art analysis/forecast system to perform data assimilation using past data from 1979 through the previous year.
Bands
Resolution
278300 meters
Bands
Name | Units | Min | Max | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|
tcdc |
% | 0* | 100* | Total cloud cover |
Terms of Use
Terms of Use
There are no restrictions on the use of these datasets.
Citations
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Code Editor (JavaScript)
// Import the dataset, filter the first five months of 2020. var dataset = ee.ImageCollection('NOAA/NCEP_DOE_RE2/total_cloud_coverage') .filter(ee.Filter.date('2020-01-01', '2020-06-01')); // Select the total cloud cover band. var totalCloudCoverage = dataset.select('tcdc'); // Reduce the image collection to per-pixel mean. var totalCloudCoverageMean = totalCloudCoverage.mean(); // Define visualization parameters. var vis = { min: 0, max: 80, // dataset max is 100 palette: ['black', 'white'], }; // Display the dataset. Map.setCenter(0, 20, 2); Map.addLayer(totalCloudCoverageMean, vis, 'Total Cloud Coverage Data', false); // Display a visualization image with opacity defined by cloud cover. var visImg = totalCloudCoverageMean.visualize(vis) .updateMask(totalCloudCoverageMean.divide(100)); Map.addLayer(visImg, null, 'Total Cloud Coverage Vis.', true);