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The Volume of Polar Stratospheric Clouds (VPSC)

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Description

The PSC volumes calculated from the ERA5 temperature data between 370-550 K. The threshold for ICE clouds is 185 K and for NAT clouds 194 K.

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Dataset: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu (URL)

FMI metadata

Parameter
Parameter name : VPSC
Parameter unit : 10^6 km^3
Parameter description : Volume of polar stratospheric clouds calculated from ERA5 temperatures
Data levels (meter, hectoPascal, degree, sigma pressure levels, other) in vertical direction(+/-) for example 1500 m or 850 hPa
Level : 370/550
Level unit : degree
Topic category
http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/metadata-codelist/TopicCategory/climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Temporal Coverage

Ranges:

Start date: 1994-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31