A dataset for predicting cloud cover over Europe
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Clouds are important factors when projecting future climate. Unfortunately, future cloud fractional
cover (the portion of the sky covered by clouds) is associated with significant uncertainty, making
climate projections difficult. In this paper, we present the European Cloud Cover dataset, which can be
used to learn statistical relations between cloud cover and other environmental variables, to potentially
improve future climate projections. the dataset was created using a novel technique called area
Weighting Regridding Scheme to map satellite observations to cloud fractional cover on the same grid
as the other variables in the dataset. Baseline experiments using autoregressive models document that
it is possible to use the dataset to predict cloud fractional cover.