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1 Advanced Geostationary Observations for the OzEWEX Community Leon Majewski Bureau of Meteorology

2 Overview Geostationary satellite missions & sensors Meteorological applications Access for OzEWEX researchers Future plans Summary

3 Bureau of Meteorology Provide forecasts, warnings and long-term outlooks on environmental phenomena that affect the safety, prosperity and resilience of Australians. Monitor and report on current environmental conditions. Foster greater public understanding and use of environmental intelligence

4 Geostationary Satellite Missions & Sensors

5 Geostationary Satellite Missions & Sensors Geostationary orbit is 35,767 km above the Earth's surface Geostationary Orbit 35,786 km

6 Geostationary Satellite Missions & Sensors Geostationary platforms have orbited above Australia since 1977 GMS-1 April 6,1978 GMS-2 December 21, 1981 GMS-3 September 27, 1984 GMS-4 December 14, 1989 GMS-5 June 21, 1995 MTSAT-1R June 28, 2005 MTSAT-2 May 11, 2006 Himawari-8 December 18, 2014

7 Geostationary Satellite Missions & Sensors In 2014 Japan launched Himawari-8, a 3 rd generation meteorological mission 1 st GMS-1 April 6,1978 GMS-2 December 21, 1981 GMS-3 September 27, 1984 GMS-4 December 14, nd 3 rd GMS-5 June 21, 1995 MTSAT-1R June 28, 2005 MTSAT-2 May 11, 2006 Himawari-8 December 18, 2014

8 Geostationary Satellite Missions & Sensors AHI: Advanced Himawari Imager Improved temporal resolution Improved spatial resolution Increased number of spectral bands Finer spectral band widths X X More Frequent coverage (full disc every 10 vs. 60 mins) Improved spatial resolution (IR 2x2 vs. 4x4 km) X More spectral bands (16 vs. 5 (MTSAT-2))

9 Geostationary Satellite Missions & Sensors AHI Band Central Wavelength [μm] Type Spatial Resolution [m] Vis 1000 Blue Vis 1000 Green Vis 500 Red Use / Application NIR 1000 Vegetation NIR 2000 Snow/Ice NIR 2000 Cloud-top phase

10 Geostationary Satellite Missions & Sensors AHI Band Central Wavelength [μm] Type Spatial Resolution [m] Use / Application IR 2000 Shortwave IR window WV 2000 Upper-level tropo. water vapour WV 2000 Upper/mid-level tropo. water vapour WV 2000 Lower mid-level tropo. water vapour IR 2000 Cloud-top phase IR 2000 Ozone (total) IR 2000 Clean IR longwave window IR 2000 Traditional IR longwave window IR 2000 Dirty longwave window IR 2000 CO 2 longwave

11 Meteorological Applications

12 Meteorological Applications Public & Severe Weather Forecasting Volcanic Ash Detection Fog/Low Stratus Detection Cloud Microphysical Properties Sea Surface Temperature

13 : TC Lam and TC Marcia

14 : Manam, Papua New Guinea Temporal resolution Observe short-lived events

15 : Manam, Papua New Guinea Temporal resolution Observe short-lived events

16 : Queensland storms

17 : South Australian storms

18 : South Australian storms

19 Access for the OzEWEX Community

20 Potential applications for OzEWEX Solar radiation Land surface temperature Surface reflectance / Aerosol retrieval Vegetation indices & Evapotranspiration More info:

21 Access for the OzEWEX Community Bureau of Meteorology obtains data on behalf of Australia Himawari-8 data access Operational (24/7 support) via Registered Users and Data Services Research access via NCI project rr5

22 Access for the OzEWEX Community National Computational Infrastructure Hosts the Bureau's research computational facility Research Data Storage Infrastructure (RDSI) Himawari observations & experimental products online

23 Access for the OzEWEX Community Data format and protocols: netcdf Climate and Forecast metadata standard (CF) Unidata Attribute Convention for Data Discovery Navigation/geolocation is provided by a projection

24 Access for the OzEWEX Community Open source data tools can be used for access and manipulation: Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol (OPeNDAP) Request spatial subsets Metadata extraction Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL)

25 Access for the OzEWEX Community Research access to observations and experimental products NCI partners via file access: /g/data/rr5/satellite/obs/himawari8 /g/data/rr5/satellite/products/himawari8 External access via OPeNDAP and/or http access: Bureau of Meteorology Observations Data Satellite obs Bureau of Meteorology Observations Data Satellite products

26 Access for the OzEWEX Community File name convention for Himawari-8 observations and products P1S-ABOM_OBS_B01-PRJ_GEOS141_1000-HIMAWARI8-AHI.nc Date Product type Projection Mission Stored under date-based directories: 2016/10/01/0000 Year Month Day Hour Minute

27 Access for the OzEWEX Community Observations OBS: Brightness Temperature (Bands 7-16) OBS: Scaled Radiance (Bands 1-6) BRF: Bi-directional reflectance factor (Bands 1-6) Quantitative products (Evaluation) CLD: Cloud properties CMP: Cloud microphysical properties FOG: Fog and low stratus

28 Future Plans & Summary

29 Future Plans Improving meteorological and non-meteorological products Quality control and routine validation Information extraction (machine supported learning) Improving data discovery and accessibility OPeNDAP aggregations & data chunking for faster access Availability of historical missions

30 Summary Japan's Himawari-8 mission provides observations from geostationary orbit High temporal resolution enables new/improved applications Observations and evaluation products are available via NCI Contacts for potential OzEWEX applications: geo

31 Thank You! You can your questions & comments to me:

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