Full description
This dataset contains derived satellite observations of cloud properties over the Australian region at hourly temporal resolution and 2 km spatial resolution. The Himawari-8 CSPPGeo Geocat collection Level-1 (L1) grid is on 2 km of horizontal resolution that includes Australia and the Maritime Continent. The L1 product include full output variables from CSPP-Geo Geocat and Advance Himawari Imagery on Himawari-8, 25, and 41 variables, respectively, with hourly temporal resolution for Austral summer months (Nov-March) from 01 November 2015 to 31 March 2020. This dataset is produced using the Geostationary Cloud Algorithm Testbed (Geocat) together with pre-processed ancillary data. The tool used to apply Geocat is described here: http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/csppgeo/geocat.htmlhttp://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/csppgeo/geocat.html .
The input data are Himawari-8 AHI retrievals v1.3, freely available from the Japanese Meteorological Agency. Meteorological Satellite Centre of JMA: https://www.data.jma.go.jp/mscweb/en/himawari89/space_segment/sample_hisd.html
Ancillary data come from
- OISST Huang, B., C. Liu, V. Banzon, E. Freeman, G. Graham, W. Hankins, T. Smith, and H.-M. Zhang, 2020: Improvements of the Daily Optimum Sea Surface Temperature (DOISST) - Version 2.1, doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-19-0177.1
- GFS Global Forecast System (GFS) [0.5 Deg.] Landing Page
- NOAA daily 4km snow and Ice Cover
HDF file containing merged NISE and IMS files on a daily gridded product.
NISE - Brodzik, M. J. and J. S. Stewart. 2016. Near-Real-Time SSM/I-SSMIS EASE-Grid Daily Global Ice Concentration and Snow Extent, Version 5. [Indicate subset used]. Boulder, Colorado, USA. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. doi: https://doi.org/10.5067/3KB2JPLFPK3R. [2020-10-01].
IMS - U.S. National Ice Center. 2008, updated daily. IMS Daily Northern Hemisphere Snow and Ice Analysis at 1 km, 4 km, and 24 km Resolutions, Version 1. [Indicate subset used]. Boulder, Colorado, USA. NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center. doi: https://doi.org/10.7265/N52R3PMC. [2020-10-01].
L1 product includes the following variables:
- brightness temperature for channels from 7 to 16
- reflectance for channels from 1 to 7
- emissivity for channel 7
This dataset is a product of the Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CLEX) Extreme Rainfall research project
Created: 2020-12-01
Data time period: 2015-11-01 to 2020-03-31
Spatial Coverage And Location
kmlPolyCoords: 70.16,-51.42 188.80,-51.42 188.80,23.09 70.16, 23.09 70.16,-51.42
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- DOI : 10.25914/60096221a8f7a