MSG: Water vapour 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 water vapour 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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- Date (Publication)
- 2007-02-20T12:05:59
- Date (Creation)
- 2007-02-20T12:05:59
- Identifier
- NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / e3610cbed5ff43ab8cce304209f68a25
- Maintenance and update frequency
- daily Daily
- Update scope
- dataset Dataset
- Keywords
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- MSG
- water vapour
- Satellites
- tropics
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- atmospheric conditions
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Restricted data: please submit an application using the REQUEST ACCESS link for access.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid Grid
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Begin date
- 2005-03-11T13:00:00
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
- Distribution format
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Images are PNG formatted
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Images are PNG formatted
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- OnLine resource
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- OnLine resource
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DOWNLOAD
Download Data
- OnLine resource
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Meteosat Second Generation
No further details.
- OnLine resource
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MSG satellite imagery geographic area codes and bounding box information.
No further details.
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data obtained by satellite from March 2005, prepared by the Met Office and stored in the BADC archive.
- File identifier
- e3610cbed5ff43ab8cce304209f68a25 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
- Parent identifier
- Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) Geostationnary Satellites: Visible, Infra-Red and Water Vapour Images and Derived Data Products over the world 5fa2529b973e47ae38ab3557f2018ef4
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-12-09T19:59:23
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3