NERC Data Catalogue Service
MSG: Cloud top height product imagery over the tropics
The Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellites, operated by EUMETSAT (The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites), provide almost continuous imagery to meteorologists and researchers in Europe and around the world. These include visible, infra-red, water vapour, High Resolution Visible (HRV) images and derived cloud top height, cloud top temperature, fog, snow detection and volcanic ash products. These images are available for a range of geographical areas.
This dataset contains cloud top height product images from MSG satellites over the tropics. Imagery available from March 2005 onwards at a frequency of 15 minutes (some are hourly) and are at least 24 hours old.
The geographic extent for images within this datasets is available via the linked documentation 'MSG satellite imagery product geographic area details'. Each MSG imagery product area can be referenced from the third and fourth character of the image product name giving in the filename. E.g. for EEAO11 the corresponding geographic details can be found under the entry for area code 'AO' (i.e West Africa).
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2007-02-20T14:14:54
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2007-02-20T14:14:54
- Identifier
- NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / 5ebdfec65fc547fd8a65264f9980a7b2
- Maintenance and update frequency
- daily
- Update scope
- dataset
- Keywords
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- MSG
- cloud
- Satellites
- Tropics
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- atmospheric conditions
- Limitations on Public Access
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- Restricted data: please submit an application using the REQUEST ACCESS link for access.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 2005-04-27T08:00:00
- Code
- WGS 84
Distribution Information
- Data format
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Images are GIF formatted
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Images are GIF formatted
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- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- Resource Locator
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DOWNLOAD
Download Data
- Resource Locator
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MSG satellite imagery geographic area codes and bounding box information.
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Meteosat Second Generation
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- Resource Locator
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DOWNLOAD
Download Data
- Resource Locator
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MSG satellite imagery geographic area codes and bounding box information.
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Meteosat Second Generation
No further details.
- Quality Scope
- dataset
Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data obtained by satellite from March 2005, prepared by the Met Office and stored in the BADC archive.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 5ebdfec65fc547fd8a65264f9980a7b2 XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
- Parent identifier
- Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) Geostationnary Satellites: Visible, Infra-Red and Water Vapour Images and Derived Data Products over the world 5fa2529b973e47ae38ab3557f2018ef4
- Resource type
- dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2023-03-02T01:15:48
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
