Tropical climate described as a distribution of weather states indicated by distinct mesoscale cloud property mixtures

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CORRIGENDUM of the MJO Transition from Shallow to Deep Convection in Cloudsat-Calipso Data and GISS GCM Simulations (2012, methodology): “We also use the ISCCP classification of weather states based on a k-means clustering algorithm applied to joint histograms of cloud-top pressure and cloud optical thickness within 2.58 3 2.58 boxes (Rossow et al. 2005) for the period January 2006–December 2007.”
Major Characteristics of Southern Ocean Cloud Regimes and Their Effects on the Energy Budget (2011, methodology): “This is a straightforward extension of the methods developed for the tropics by Jakob and Tselioudis (2003) and Rossow et al. (2005).”
GCM intercomparison of global cloud regimes: present-day evaluation and climate change response (2007, methodology): “The clustering of the ISCCP observational data has been carried out using this method for the region 15� N‐15� S. The resulting clusters are extremely similar to those obtained by Rossow et al. (2005) (with RFOs within 1%), suggesting that some of the subjective differences in methodology, use of ”