Himawari-8 GeoCat 1.0.3 Australian Domain Level 2

Creators: Clemente, Lopez Bravo,¹; Louise, Vincent, Claire¹; Yi, Huang,¹

1. University of Melbourne

Rights holder:: University of Melbourne¹

Sponsors:: ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes; LIEF Grant LE200100040

1. University of Melbourne

Description

This dataset contains derived satellite observations of cloud properties over the Australian region at hourly temporal resolution and 2 km spatial resolution. The Himawari-8 CSPPGeo Geocat collection Level-2 (L2) grid is on 2 km of horizontal resolution that includes Australia and the Maritime Continent. The L2 product include full output variables from CSPP-Geo Geocat and Advance Himawari Imagery on Himawari-8, 25, and 41 variables, respectively, with hourly temporal resolution for Austral summer months (Nov-March) from 01 November 2015 to 31 March 2020. This dataset is produced using the Geostationary Cloud Algorithm Testbed (Geocat) together with pre-processed ancillary data.

L2 product includes the following variables:

Cloud albedo
Cloud Optical Depth
Cloud Phase
Cloud Type
Low Cloud and Fog
Cloud Particle Size Distribution
Cloud Top Height
Cloud Top Pressure
Cloud Top Temperature
Cloud Liquid Water Path
Cloud Ice Water Path
Clear Sky Masks

These variables are derived using the following algorithms:

ACHA - ABI Cloud Height Algorithm
DCOMP - Daytime Cloud Optical and Microphysical Properties
NCOMP - Nighttime Cloud Optical and Microphysical Properties

The input data are Himawari-8 AHI retrievals v1.3, freely available from the Meteorological Satellite Centre of JMA.

Ancillary data is provided by OISST, GFS and NOAA daily 4km snow and Ice Cover:

OISST Huang, B., C. Liu, V. Banzon, E. Freeman, G. Graham, W. Hankins, T. Smith, and H.-M. Zhang, 2020: Improvements of the Daily Optimum Sea Surface Temperature (DOISST) - Version 2.1, doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-19-0177.1
GFS Global Forecast System (GFS) [0.5 Deg.]
NOAA daily 4km snow and Ice Cover HDF file containing merged NISE and IMS files on a daily gridded product. NISE - Brodzik, M. J. and J. S. Stewart. 2016. Near-Real-Time SSM/I-SSMIS EASE-Grid Daily Global Ice Concentration and Snow Extent, Version 5. Boulder, Colorado, USA. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. doi: https://doi.org/10.5067/3KB2JPLFPK3R. [2020-10-01]. IMS - U.S. National Ice Center. 2008, updated daily.
IMS Daily Northern Hemisphere Snow and Ice Analysis at 1 km, 4 km, and 24 km Resolutions, Version 1. Boulder, Colorado, USA. NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center. doi: https://doi.org/10.7265/N52R3PMC. [2020-10-01].

This dataset is a product of the Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CLEX) Extreme rainfall research program.

Official metadata and access to the data is via the NCI geonetwork record in related identifiers.

Access information (English)

Preferred citation:

Lopez-Bravo, Clemente, Vincent C.L., Huang, Y., 2021: Himawari-8 GeoCat 1.0.3 Australian Domain Level 2 v1.0 . NCI Australia. (Dataset). https://dx.doi.org/10.25914/60096228c7ec0, accessed on <date>

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