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

Hourly cloud microphysical and radiation properties derived from the SEVIRI instrument on the Meteosat-10 geostationary satellite at 4 km resolution. The data set is arranged as hourly files in netCDF-4 format, supporting the NASA CERES project to estimate fluxes between instrument measurements. CERES instruments have been launched on multiple missions since 1997, including Terra, Aqua, and NOAA-20.

Use Cases

• Modeling the Earth's diurnal radiation budget based on hourly cloud property data
• Analyzing cloud microphysical properties over the Northern Hemisphere based on satellite retrievals
• Validating climate models using geostationary-derived radiation flux estimates
• Studying temporal changes in cloud cover and atmospheric energy based on time-series observations

Strengths

• Data is derived from a well-established satellite instrument (SEVIRI) and CERES project algorithms
• Provides hourly temporal resolution to account for the diurnal cycle
• Observations are at a spatial resolution of 4 km at nadir

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Collection Method

Derived from Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) data using Langley Research Center (LaRC) SatCORPS algorithms.

Time Range

Temporal coverage is not explicitly stated, but data is collected hourly.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-12 22:09:20.605345; freshness should be verified

Geography

Northern Hemisphere, from the Meteosat-10 geostationary satellite.