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September 26, 2005
Nice Global Cloud Map
A few weeks ago I provided a link to a "Clouds of the Earth" Google Earth file which recently stopped working. This is a good time to introduce a new, and much improved GE file for showing all the clouds around the Earth. Chris Parsons wrote a script to process a global satellite map which turns the non-cloud portions transparent. The data updates once every three hours. Download the new [updated] Global Clouds 
. This is the closest I've seen GE appear to real satellite photos of the Earth. Chris tells what tools he is using in his post at the Google Earth Community. Amazing work Chris!
Posted by FrankTaylor at September 26, 2005 11:06 AM
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Posted by: Jason at September 26, 2005 1:06 PM
This is indeed a nice improvement on the earlier version that didn't have any transparency.
Now, if only GE would support some form of animation so we could see the clouds moving.
Posted by: aardbij at September 28, 2005 2:29 AM
Animating image overlays will be a tricky upgrade. But, I suspect we will see it eventually.
Posted by: Frank Taylor at September 28, 2005 8:20 AM
Well if i had a say in planning the next features, i'd do the following:
- add a scripting environment to GE, so we can manipulate the kml objects using some visual basic language.
- add a timescrollbar which controls kml properties: visibility and locations based on some time coding.
Posted by: aardbij at September 28, 2005 9:41 AM
Well, dynamic overlays already exist.
I saw (on this site or another) a dynamic vector overlay showing flight and planes trace (speed and elevation) and refreshing every 10 second.
Why couldn't we expect the same things for raster overlays ?
JM
Posted by: jmbuton at December 8, 2005 10:36 AM
Cloud cover does not work anymore! Why?
Posted by: Jensen Roth at March 29, 2006 4:19 PM
Yes, the server was taken off line. The author and I are trying to find a new home for the script and image file (it averages about 5Gbytes of traffic a month).
Posted by: Frank Taylor at March 29, 2006 11:33 PM
Good News: the Global Cloud Map is working again thanks to some help from Google!
Posted by: Frank Taylor at April 3, 2006 10:17 PM
why in the programm Google earth so small zoom ??? i would be like better quality for look the some places
Posted by: Vyacheslav at July 12, 2007 7:18 PM
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That is really cool! I have a lot of friends in the Meteorology Dept. of my university that are going to love this!