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As such, the Swiss GCOS Office also fosters the exploration of new measurement techniques and methods, in particular through the use of satellite-based data, to complement the long-term in situ observations in Switzerland. In this paper, the role of satellites is presented for climatological studies of atmospheric and terrestrial Essential Climate Variables in Switzerland. For the atmospheric domain, the 10-year climatology March 2000\u2013February 2010 of cloud cover from MODIS is shown for Switzerland, in low (1\u00b0 \u00d7 1\u00b0) and high (0.05\u00b0 \u00d7 0.05\u00b0) resolution, and compared to ground-based synop observations. 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