CANONICAL MARINE PARAMETER
Cloud amount / cloud fraction
Fraction of the sky covered by cloud. Historical marine reports may use coded tenths or oktas rather than a continuous fraction.
- Canonical key
cloud_fraction- Parameter family
- Marine atmosphere
- Scientific category
- Atmosphere
- Canonical unit
- 1 or coded
- CF standard name / vocabulary
- cloud_area_fraction
- Vertical domain
- atmosphere
- Required qualifiers
- coding system
- Merge policy
- CONDITIONAL
- Mapped sources
- 4
Marine observation sources
The following registered sources have indexed metadata mappings for this parameter. Consult the registry details for each mapping's verification and review status.
- OceanSITES OceanSITES / GDACs
- ICOADS NOAA NCEI + international partners
- Copernicus Marine Global In-Situ Copernicus Marine Service
- NOAA CoastWatch NOAA NESDIS / CoastWatch