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Satellite Cloud Product

NESDIS produces a Satellite Cloud Product (SCP) that supplements the ASOS ceilometer readings. This page merges the SCP data with the METAR observations for a given UTC date. Cloud level values are presented in feet above ground level. ECA represents estimated cloud amount expressed in percentage. An IEM Web Service provided the following JSON dataset for this page. Data is available for some sites back to 1993.

SCP Valid UTC	METAR Valid Local	Satellite East Sounder				Satellite West Sounder				ASOS METAR Report
SCP Valid UTC	METAR Valid Local	Mid Clouds	High Clouds	Levels [ft]	ECA [%]	Mid Clouds	High Clouds	Levels [ft]	ECA [%]	Levels ft	METAR
0550Z	No Ob	SCT		14000 - 17000	1	CLR		-	0
0650Z	No Ob	CLR		-	0	CLR		-	0
0750Z	No Ob	SCT		14000 - 18000	0	CLR		-	0
0850Z	No Ob	SCT		13000 - 27000	8	SCT		13000 - 17000	2
0950Z	No Ob	BKN		13000 - 29000	63	BKN		13000 - 19000	42
1050Z	No Ob	BKN		13000 - 48000	31	BKN		13000 - 28000	37
1150Z	No Ob	SCT		13000 - 35000	6	SCT		13000 - 20000	5