Clouds cover 70% of the earth's surface and are one of the important factors affecting the balance of atmospheric radiation and climate change. They are also an important part of the global water cycle. Considering the lack of reliable cloud parameter data with high temporal and spatial resolutions in the East Asia-Pacific (EAP) region, the 2016 data were developed using the next-generation geostationary satellite Himawari-8 with a temporal resolution of 1h and spatial resolutions of 0.1° and 0.25°. , 1° cloud parameters datasets. The cloud products include macro- and micro parameters. The macro parameters include: cloud cover (CF), cloud detection (CM), cloud phase detection (CP), cloud top pressure (CTP), cloud top height (CTH) ), cloud top temperature (CTT), cloud type (CT), supercooled water detection (SWC); micro parameters include cloud optical depth (COT), cloud particle effective radius (CER). These cloud parameters produced have reached the international advanced level in terms of precision.

File naming and required software

H08_ yyyymmdd_ HHMM_ CMA_??? deg.nc
H08_ yyyymmdd_ HHMM_ CMI_??? deg.nc

Where yyyy, mm and DD represent year, month and day; HH and mm represent hours and minutes (UTC time, instantaneous value);
CMA represents cloud macro parameters; CMI represents cloud microscopic parameters
??? Represents spatial resolution, with three resolutions of 0.10, 0.25 and 1.00
The data is in netcdf4 format, and each variable in the file has self description information.
Physical quantity = DN * scale_ factor + add_ offset

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Husi, L. (2022). East Asia-Pacific cloud macro- and microphysical properties data set (2016). A Big Earth Data Platform for Three Poles, DOI: 10.11888/Atmos.tpdc.272822. CSTR: 18406.11.Atmos.tpdc.272822. (Download the reference： RIS | Bibtex )

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References literature

1.Husi, L.T, Yang, K., Nakajima, T., Ishimoto, H., Nagao, T., Riedi, J., Baran, A., Ma, R., Wang, T.X., Shang, H.Z., Khatri, P., Chen, L.F., Shi, C.X., & Shi, J.C. (2020). High-resolution retrieval of cloud microphysical properties and surface solar radiation using Himawari-8/AHI next-generation geostationary satellite. Remote Sensing of Environment. 239. 1-16. 10.1016/j.rse.2019.111583. (View Details )

Support Program

Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition Program

National Key R&D Program of China (No:2018YFA0605401)

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