SatCORPS CERES GEO: Cloud and Radiation Properties from Meteosat-11

CER_GEO_Ed4_MET11_SH_V01.4 is a NASA satellite data product providing hourly cloud micro-physical and radiation properties. The data is derived from the SEVIRI instrument on the Meteosat-11 geostationary satellite using Langley Research Center algorithms. 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 over the Southern Hemisphere based on hourly geostationary data.
• Validating atmospheric reanalysis models using cloud retrievals based on MERRA-2 inputs.

Strengths

• Data is derived from a specific, well-documented satellite instrument (SEVIRI on Meteosat-11).
• Provides observations at a high spatial resolution of 3 km at nadir.
• Uses a specific, documented atmospheric reanalysis (MERRA-2) for input.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Collection Method

Derived from geostationary satellite imager data using Langley Research Center SatCORPS algorithms.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-12 21:41:22.447848; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Southern Hemisphere coverage from the Meteosat-11 platform.