Abstract
Himawari 8/9 region 03 observations in the Himawari Standard Data (HSD) data format distributed by the Japan Meteorological Agency to other national meteorological agencies, such as the Bureau of Meteorology.
This product contains the uncalibrated digital numbers as retreived by the Advanced Himawari Imager instrument. Calibration coefficients must be applied to create physically meaningful units.
Intended for expert users only.
Higher level products derived from this data can be found in the Bureau of Meteorology - Satellite Observations (ra22) and Bureau of Meteorology - Satellite Derived Products (rv74) data collections.
Data older than three months can be found on tape/MDSS on the Bureau of Meteorology - Satellite Archive (pc59) project.
Format
Himawari Standard Data (HSD)
Please see the Himawari Standard Users Guide for further information.
Basepath, Filename Template and Data Access
On NCI (requires an NCI account and membership of the gc63 data collection)
Basepath: /g/data/gc63/satellite-products/<datastream>/raw/re03/<dataset version>/<year>/<month>/<day>/<hour/minute>/
Filename: HS_<Satellite>_<Year><Month><Day><Hour><Minute>_B<Band Number>_RE<Observation_Number>_R<Spatial Resolution>_S0101.DAT
<Satellite>: H08 or H09
<Datastream>: nrt or arc
<Band Number>: 01 ~ 16
<Observation Number>: 01 ~ 04
<Spatial Resolution>: R20 (2km), R10 (1 km) or R05 (0.5km)
On THREDDS (publicly available, no NCI account required)
Bureau of Meteorology - Satellite Low Level Data (gc63) THREDDS
Basepath: satellite-products/<datastream>/raw/re03/<dataset version>/<year>/<month>/<day>/<hour/minute>/
Filename: HS_<Satellite>_<Year><Month><Day><Hour><Minute>_B<Band Number>_RE<Observation_Number>_R<Spatial Resolution>_S0101.DAT
<Satellite>: H08 or H09
<Datastream>: nrt or arc
<Band Number>: 01 ~ 16
<Observation Number>: 01 ~ 04
<Spatial Resolution>: R20 (2km), R10 (1 km) or R05 (0.5km)
Version
Version 1.0: Initial release
License
Update Frequency
2.5 minutes (Near Realtime), 1 to 3 months (Archive)
Temporal extents (YYYY/MM/DD)
Near Realtime: previous 3 months - present
Archive: Gap filled previous 3 months on gc63. Older archived data is available from MDSS from the Bureau of Meteorology Satellite Archive (pc59) project.
Spatial extents
Targetable 1000km x 1000km area
Owner
Japan Meteorological Agency
Distributed by the Bureau of Meteorology
Contact
SI-Research-SS@bom.gov.au Satellite Science Team, Research, Bureau of Meteorology
Credit
Many thanks to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) for providing Himawari-AHI data.