HD(CP)2 long term observations, cloud optical thickness data of SEVIRI on Meteosat (no. 00), full domain observation by TROPOS, data version 00
Daily files of SEVIRI on Meteosat: cloud optical thickness.
Access
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wget -nc -r -l3 -A.nc -R "catalog*" -nd -I /thredds/fileServer/,/thredds/catalog/ 'http://meteorologie.rz.uni-leipzig.de:8080/thredds/catalog/hdcp2/seviri/00/otc/l2/hdfd/trop/catalog, '
Instrument 1
- Source: MSG-SEVIRI channel 0.6, 0.8 and 1.6 μm
- Descriptive Instrument location: SEVIRI is the main instrument on board Meteosat-9. Meteosat-9 is located in the geostationary orbit at 9.5° E.
Global information
- PID: de.koeln.rrzk/amd.ceu.hdfd/trop.seviri00.l2.otc
- Level: 2
- Updated version: 00
- File format: NETCDF4
- Convention: CF-1.6
- Average File Size Uncompressed: 6 Mb
- File name: hdfd_trop_seviri00_l2_otc_v[VV]_[YYYYMMDDhhmmss].nc
- Start: 2007-01-01
- End: ongoing
Variables
| Name | Dimension | CF standard_name | long_name | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| otc | time, y, x | atmopshere_optical_thickness_due_to_cloud | atmopshere optical thickness due to cloud | 1 |
Institution
Contact Person(s)
Hartwig Deneke (deneke@tropos.de)
References
Roebeling, R. A., Feijt, A. J., Stammes, P.,Cloud property retrievals for climate monitoring: Implications of differences between Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) on METEOSAT-8 and Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) on NOAA-17
Teruyuki Nakajima and Michael D. King,Determination of the Optical Thickness and Effective Particle Radius of Clouds from Reflected Solar Radiation Measurements. Part I: Theory
Roebeling, R. A., Feijt, A. J., Stammes, P.,Cloud property retrievals for climate monitoring: Implications of differences between Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) on METEOSAT-8 and Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) on NOAA-17