SatCORPS CERES GEO: Hourly Cloud and Radiation Properties from GOES-10

Hourly cloud micro-physical and radiation properties derived from GOES-10 geostationary satellite imager data at 4 km resolution, subsampled to 8 km. The data set is arranged as files for each hour in netCDF-4 format and was produced by NASA's Langley Research Center using SatCORPS algorithms for the CERES project. Data collection for this product is complete.

Use Cases

• Modeling Earth's radiation budget based on derived cloud and radiation properties.
• Analyzing the diurnal cycle of cloud properties based on hourly temporal resolution.
• Studying cloud microphysics over the Northern Hemisphere based on geostationary satellite coverage.
• Estimating radiative fluxes between CERES instrument measurements based on merged hourly global cloud properties.

Strengths

• Data is at 4 km spatial resolution at nadir.
• Provides hourly temporal resolution for analyzing diurnal cycles.
• Produced by NASA Langley Research Center for the CERES project, a key Earth Observing System component.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Geographic coverage is limited to the Northern Hemisphere.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Derived from GOES-10 geostationary satellite imager data using Langley Research Center SatCORPS algorithms.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-12 22:10:47.988649; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Northern Hemisphere