A dataset for predicting cloud cover over Europe-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

A dataset for predicting cloud cover over Europe

Published:2024-02-27 Issue:1 Volume:11 Page:
ISSN:2052-4463
Container-title:Scientific Data
language:en
Short-container-title:Sci Data

Author:

Svennevik Hanna,Hicks Steven A.,Riegler Michael A.^ORCID,Storelvmo Trude^ORCID,Hammer Hugo L.^ORCID

Abstract

AbstractClouds are important factors when projecting future climate. Unfortunately, future cloud fractional cover (the portion of the sky covered by clouds) is associated with significant uncertainty, making climate projections difficult. In this paper, we present the European Cloud Cover dataset, which can be used to learn statistical relations between cloud cover and other environmental variables, to potentially improve future climate projections. The dataset was created using a novel technique called Area Weighting Regridding Scheme to map satellite observations to cloud fractional cover on the same grid as the other variables in the dataset. Baseline experiments using autoregressive models document that it is possible to use the dataset to predict cloud fractional cover.

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Link

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03062-0.pdf

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