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

SatCORPS CERES GEO Edition 4 data provides hourly cloud microphysical and radiation properties derived from the SEVIRI instrument on the Meteosat-10 geostationary satellite over the Southern Hemisphere. The dataset is produced by NASA's Langley Research Center to support the CERES project, a key component of the Earth Observing System program. Observations are at 3 km resolution (nadir) and sub-sampled to 9 km, arranged in hourly netCDF-4 files.

Use Cases

• Modeling the diurnal cycle of cloud properties based on hourly temporal resolution.
• Analyzing cloud microphysical properties like particle size and optical thickness derived from satellite imager data.
• Estimating radiative fluxes between CERES instrument measurements based on merged global cloud properties.
• Studying Southern Hemisphere atmospheric radiation and cloud cover dynamics based on geostationary satellite coverage.

Strengths

• Data is derived from a well-established satellite platform (Meteosat-10) and instrument (SEVIRI) supporting the CERES project.
• Provides high spatial resolution observations at 3 km (nadir), sub-sampled to 9 km.
• Algorithmic consistency is noted, with Version 1.2 being identical to version 1.0.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Langley Research Center (LaRC)

Collection Method

Derived hourly from Meteosat-10 geostationary satellite imager data using SatCORPS algorithms.

Time Range

Temporal coverage is not explicitly stated in the provided input.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03 12 22:09:29.998451; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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