GOES CPEX: Satellite Data for Convective Storm Processes, May-June 2017

May 31 to July 25, 2017, satellite products from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 13, collected during the NASA Convective Processes Experiment field campaign. The campaign involved sixteen DC-8 aircraft missions from May 27 to June 24, 2017, in the North Atlantic-Gulf of Mexico-Caribbean Sea region. Data are available in netCDF-3 format.

Use Cases

• Modeling convective storm life cycles based on satellite-derived atmospheric data.
• Analyzing storm initiation patterns in the North Atlantic-Gulf of Mexico region during early summer.
• Validating meteorological models using geostationary satellite observations from a specific field campaign.

Strengths

• Data collected during a dedicated NASA field campaign with sixteen DC-8 missions.
• Covers a specific temporal window from May 31 to July 25, 2017, for a defined oceanic region.
• Available in the standard netCDF-3 format for geospatial and scientific data.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale ML tasks.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Collected by the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 13 during the NASA Convective Processes Experiment field campaign.

Time Range

May 31, 2017 through July 25, 2017 (campaign from May 25 to June 25, 2017).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-05 20:01:12.000352; freshness should be verified.

Geography

North Atlantic-Gulf of Mexico-Caribbean Sea region.