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

Hourly cloud micro-physical and radiation properties derived from the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) on the Meteosat-10 geostationary satellite. The data is arranged as hourly files in netCDF-4 format with observations at 3 km resolution, sub-sampled to 9 km, and covers the Southern Hemisphere. This product was created by NASA's Langley Research Center to support the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) project.

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 and improving climate models using geostationary satellite-derived flux estimates.
• Studying cloud property evolution at high temporal (hourly) and spatial (3 km) resolution.

Strengths

• Data collection is described as complete, providing a finalized product.
• Observations are at a high spatial resolution of 3 km at nadir.
• Derived from a well-documented instrument (SEVIRI) and algorithm suite (SatCORPS) supporting the long-running CERES project.

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 Southern Hemisphere.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Collection Method

Derived from SEVIRI instrument data on the Meteosat-10 platform using Langley Research Center SatCORPS algorithms.

Time Range

Temporal coverage is not explicitly stated, but data collection is described as complete.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-12 22:09:14.241485; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Southern Hemisphere, as observed by the Meteosat-10 geostationary satellite.