EO:EUM:DAT:0895

Atmospheric Motion Vectors Climate Data Record Release 1 - MFG - Indian Ocean 63 degrees E

This is the first release of the reprocessed Meteosat First Generation (MFG) Atmospheric Motion Vectors (AMV) Thematic Climate Data Record (TCDR) for the Indian Ocean Data Coverage (IODC) region. It contains AMV at all heights below the tropopause, derived from images in 2 channels (Water Vapor 6.2, Infrared 10.8) of the instrument MVIRI on board MFG. Vectors are retrieved by tracking the motion of clouds and other atmospheric constituents such as water vapor patterns. The height assignment of the AMVs is calculated using the Cross-Correlation Contribution (CCC) function to determine the height using the pixels that contribute the most to the vectors. The final vector is estimated averaging the speed and height over 4 consecutive images. A quality indicator is derived for each vector to assess the reliability of the retrieval. Products are stored in netCDF4 format and generated from Meteosat-5 satellite, covering the period from July1998 to April 2007.

Satellite: MFG

Instrument: MVIRI

Temporal Extent: 1998-07-01 - 2007-04-16

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Data Policy: NoConditions

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