Term: modis_cloud_area_fraction_liquid

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Ice means ice-topped clouds, as seen by the MODIS simulator. Dimensions of the histogram are cloud ice water path and cloud ice-crystal effective radius

Term: modis_cloud_area_fraction_liquid

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Liquid means liquid-topped clouds, as seen by the MODIS simulator. Dimensions of the histogram are cloud top pressure and cloud optical depth.

Term: modis_cloud_area_fraction_liquid

Unit: 1

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GRIB:

Liquid means liquid-topped clouds, as seen by the MODIS simulator. Dimensions of the histogram are cloud top pressure and cloud optical depth.

Term: modis_liquid_topped_cloud_area_fraction

Unit: 1

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GRIB:

Liquid means liquid-topped clouds, as seen by the MODIS simulator. To distinguish that these are cloud area fractions as seen by a specific satellite instrument simulator, not the same as cloud area fractions diagnosed by the native model, the prefix format of satellite name_ is employed.

Term: modis_liquid_topped_cloud_area_fraction

Unit: 1

Unit ref: UUUU

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GRIB:

Liquid means liquid-topped clouds, as seen by the MODIS simulator. To distinguish that these are cloud area fractions as seen by a specific satellite instrument simulator, not the same as cloud area fractions diagnosed by the native model, the prefix format of satellite name_ is employed. "Area fraction" is the fraction of a grid cell's horizontal area that has some characteristic of interest. It is evaluated as the area of interest divided by the grid cell area, or if the cell_methods restricts the evaluation to some portion of that grid cell (e.g. "where sea_ice"), then it is the area of interest divided by the area of the identified portion.