SatCORPS CERES GEO: Hourly Cloud and Radiation Properties from Meteosat-9

Hourly data on cloud micro-physical and radiation properties derived from the SEVIRI instrument on the Meteosat-9 geostationary satellite. The dataset, produced by NASA's Langley Research Center for the CERES project, is arranged as hourly files in netCDF-4 format with observations at 4 km resolution (sub-sampled to 8 km). Data collection for this product is complete.

Use Cases

• Modeling the Earth's radiation budget based on derived cloud and radiation properties.
• Analyzing the diurnal cycle of cloud properties based on hourly geostationary data.
• Studying cloud micro-physical properties like optical thickness and particle size.
• Merging geostationary satellite data to create global hourly cloud property estimates.

Strengths

• Data is derived from a specific, well-documented instrument (SEVIRI on Meteosat-9).
• Provides hourly temporal resolution for analyzing diurnal cycles.
• Observations are at a high spatial resolution of 4 km at nadir.
• Produced by NASA's Langley Research Center 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.
• Spatial coverage is limited to the Northern Hemisphere.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

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

Time Range

Data collection for this product is complete; specific date range not provided.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-12 22:08:22.767954; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Northern Hemisphere, from the Meteosat-9 geostationary satellite.