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SatCORPS CERES GEO Edition 4 Himawari-8 Northern Hemisphere Version 1.2

Published by NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Catalog Last Checked: June 25, 2026 at 01:55 PM | Dataset Last Updated: June 23, 2026
CER_GEO_Ed4_HIM08_NH_V01.2 is the Satellite Cloud and Radiation Property retrieval System (SatCORPS) Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) Geostationary Satellite (GEO) Edition 4 Himawari-8 over the Northern Hemisphere (NH) Version 1.2 data product. Data was collected using the Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI) Instrument on the Himawari-8 platform. Note: Version 1.2 is identical to version 1.0. No changes have been made to the retrieval algorithm. This data set comprises cloud micro-physical and radiation properties derived hourly from Himawari-8 geostationary satellite imager data using the Langley Research Center (LaRC) SATCORPS algorithms supporting the CERES project. The data set is arranged as files for each hour in netCDF-4 format. The observations are at 2 km resolution (at nadir) and are sub-sampled to 6 km (taking every third line and pixel).

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license https://www.usa.gov/government-works
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temporal 2015-07-05/2022-12-01
theme 
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title SatCORPS CERES GEO Edition 4 Himawari-8 Northern Hemisphere Version 1.2

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