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

Hourly cloud micro-physical and radiation properties derived from the SEVIRI instrument on the Meteosat-10 geostationary satellite. The data is produced by NASA's Langley Research Center for the CERES project, using the SatCORPS algorithms and MERRA-2 reanalysis for atmospheric input. Observations are at 3 km resolution at nadir and sub-sampled to 6 km, stored in netCDF-4 format.

Use Cases

• Modeling Earth's radiation budget based on derived cloud and radiation properties.
• Analyzing cloud micro-physical property trends using hourly geostationary satellite data.
• Validating atmospheric models using cloud retrievals informed by MERRA-2 reanalysis data.
• Studying diurnal cycles of cloud properties over the Northern Hemisphere.

Strengths

• Data is derived from a specific, documented instrument (SEVIRI on Meteosat-10).
• Uses a defined, consistent algorithm (LaRC SatCORPS) and atmospheric input (MERRA-2 reanalysis).
• Provides high spatial resolution (3 km at nadir) and hourly temporal resolution.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to its Northern Hemisphere coverage.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Derived from the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) on the Meteosat-10 platform using Langley Research Center SatCORPS algorithms.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-12 21:41:31.732216; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Northern Hemisphere