CERES GEO Edition 4: Hourly Cloud and Radiation Properties from GOES-10

SatCORPS CERES GEO Edition 4 data provides hourly cloud micro-physical and radiation properties derived from GOES-10 geostationary satellite imager data. The dataset is arranged as hourly files in netCDF-4 format with observations at 4 km resolution at nadir, sub-sampled to 8 km. It was produced by NASA's Langley Research Center to support the CERES project, a key component of the Earth Observing System.

Use Cases

• Modeling the Earth's radiation budget based on derived cloud and radiation properties.
• Analyzing diurnal cycles of cloud microphysics over the Southern Hemisphere.
• Validating climate models using high-resolution, hourly geostationary satellite data.
• Studying cloud property trends by merging data from multiple geostationary satellites.

Strengths

• Data collection is complete, providing a stable historical record.
• Observations are at a high spatial resolution of 4 km at nadir.
• Derived from established algorithms from NASA's Langley Research Center supporting the CERES project.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is limited to the Southern Hemisphere coverage of the GOES-10 satellite.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

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

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-12 22:11:44.082647; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Southern Hemisphere