SOLab product specification

From

Current document describes the format of the new product. Please also refer to the short summary of the CF convention over the NetCDF files and to the original source CF convention.

Product design

Given:

lat, lon, time, 4 parameters: Q – water vapor, W – cloud liquid, V – wind speed, T – temperature. This is for one swath, and we have 14 ascending and 14 descending swaths per day. Time is for a scan, pixels in scan are always 196, number of scans per swath is about 2000 and this varies from swath to swath.

Recommended NetCDF format structure

Variable	Attributes
latitude	long_name: latitude units: degrees_north standard_name: latitude
longitude	long_name: longitude units: degrees_east standard_name: longitude
time	long_name: time units: s standard_name: time
atmosphere_water_vapor_content	long_name: units: kg m-2 standard_name:
atmosphere_cloud_liquid_water_content	long_name: units: kg m-2 standard_name:
wind_speed	long_name: wind speed units: m s-2 standard_name: wind speed
sea_surface_temperature	long_name: sea surface temperature units: K standard_name: sea surface temperature