- Dataset Availability
- 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z–2023-08-31T18:00:00
- Dataset Provider
- NOAA
- Earth Engine Snippet
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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 |
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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);