Himawari 8/9 full disk 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.
Himawari Standard Data (HSD)
Please see the Himawari Standard Users Guide for further information.
On NCI (requires an NCI account and membership of the gc63 data collection)
Basepath: /g/data/gc63/satellite-products/<datastream>/raw/fldk/<dataset version>/<year>/<month>/<day>/<hour/minute>/
Filename: HS_<Satellite>_<Year><Month><Day><Hour><Minute>_B<Band Number>_FLDK_R<Spatial Resolution>_S<Segment Number>10.DAT
<Satellite>: H08 or H09
<Datastream>: nrt or arc
<Band Number>: 01 ~ 16
<Spatial Resolution>: R20 (2km), R10 (1 km) or R05 (0.5km)
<Segment Number>: 01 ~ 10
On THREDDS (publicly available, no NCI account required)
Bureau of Meteorology - Satellite Low Level Data (gc63) THREDDS
Basepath: satellite-products/<datastream>/raw/fldk/<dataset version>/<year>/<month>/<day>/<hour/minute>/
Filename: HS_<Satellite>_<Year><Month><Day><Hour><Minute>_B<Band Number>_FLDK_R<Spatial Resolution>_S<Segment Number>10.DAT
<Satellite>: H08 or H09
<Datastream>: nrt or arc
<Band Number>: 01 ~ 16
<Spatial Resolution>: R20 (2km), R10 (1 km) or R05 (0.5km)
<Segment Number>: 01 ~ 10
Version 1.0: Initial release
10 minutes (Near Realtime), 1 to 3 months (Archive)
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.
81N ~ 81S, 59E ~ 222E
Japan Meteorological Agency
Distributed by the Bureau of Meteorology
SI-Research-SS@bom.gov.au Satellite Science Team, Research, Bureau of Meteorology
Many thanks to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) for providing Himawari-AHI data.