NOAA GOES-R Series Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Level 2 Cloud Particle Size Distribution (CPS)

Description

The GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Cloud Particle Size product contains an image with pixel values identifying a measure of the effective radius of the particles in a single cloud layer. It is defined by the ratio of the third and second moment of the particle size distribution. Separate algorithms are used for daytime, solar zenith angle to 82 degrees, and nighttime, solar zenith angle greater than 82 degrees, conditions. The product is generated in combination with the Cloud Optical Depth product by the same algorithms. The product includes data quality information that identifies whether the daytime or nighttime algorithm generated the pixel, and provides an assessment of the cloud particle size data values for on-earth pixels. The units of measure for the cloud particle size value is microns. Product data is produced under the following conditions for the daytime algorithm: Cloudy; Geolocated source data to local zenith angles of 65 degrees and to solar zenith angles of 82 degrees. Product data generated by the nighttime algorithm is produced under the following conditions: Cloudy; Geolocated source data to local zenith angles of 70 degrees and solar zenith angles between 82 and 180 degrees. The cloud particle size values reported range from 0 to 100 um. However, the size range depends on day/night conditions and the liquid/ice water phase. Cloud Particle Size product data is identified as degraded in the terminator region, which is a solar zenith angle between 65 and 82 degrees for the daytime algorithm, and 82 and 90 degrees for the nighttime algorithm. The measurement range for Cloud Particle Size is determined by the model parameterization used in the algorithm retrieval. For daytime retrievals, the effective radius is determined by the lookup table bounds, 100.4 to 102.0, corresponding to 2.51 to 100 um, for both liquid and ice clouds. For nighttime retrievals, the effective radiance is determined by the range of particle size models considered: 2 to 32 um for water clouds, and; 2.62 to 78.15 um for ice clouds where the retrieval of particle size diameter is related to the effective radius by a quadratic equation. The product image is provided at 2 km resolution on the ABI fixed grid for Full Disk, CONUS, and Mesoscale coverage regions from GOES East and West.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 Landing page for the dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/metadata/geoportal/rest/metadata/item/gov.noaa.ncdc:C01509/html
0 Search the data archive and submit an order for the dataset via the interface. https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/airs-web/search
0 Search the data archive and submit an order for the dataset via the interface. http://www.class.noaa.gov/saa/products/search?datatype_family=GRABIPRD
0 Description of the products and related resources. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/goes-terrestrial-weather-abi-glm
33 The Product Definition and User's Guide (PUG) document provides product descriptions and formats for all data and products produced and made available to users by the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R Series (GOES-R) Core Ground Segment (GS). http://www.goes-r.gov/users/docs/PUG-main-vol1.pdf
33 The Product Definition and User's Guide (PUG) document provides product descriptions and formats for all data and products produced and made available to users by the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R Series (GOES-R) Core Ground Segment (GS). http://www.goes-r.gov/products/docs/PUG-L2+-vol5.pdf
0 Information on AWS data access. https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-goes/
21 Browse view to explore the S3 bucket for GOES-16 datasets. Data relevant to this can be found in folders with the prefix ABI-L2-CPS. https://noaa-goes16.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html
21 Browse view to explore the S3 bucket for GOES-17 datasets. Data relevant to this can be found in folders with the prefix ABI-L2-CPS. https://noaa-goes17.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html
21 Browse view to explore the S3 bucket for GOES-18 datasets. Data relevant to this can be found in folders with the prefix ABI-L2-CPS. https://noaa-goes18.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html
21 Browse view to explore the S3 bucket for GOES-19 datasets. Data can be found in the folders with this product name prefix. https://noaa-goes19.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html
0 Browse view to explore the Google Cloud bucket for GOES-16. Data relevant to this can be found in folders with the prefix ABI-L2-CPS. https://console.cloud.google.com/storage/browser/gcp-public-data-goes-16
0 Browse view to explore the Google Cloud bucket for GOES-17. Data relevant to this can be found in folders with the prefix ABI-L2-CPS. https://console.cloud.google.com/storage/browser/gcp-public-data-goes-17
0 Browse view to explore the Google Cloud bucket for GOES-18. Data relevant to this can be found in folders with the prefix ABI-L2-CPS. https://console.cloud.google.com/storage/browser/gcp-public-data-goes-18
0 Browse view to explore the Google Cloud bucket for GOES-19 datasets. Data can be found in the folders with this product name prefix. https://console.cloud.google.com/storage/browser/gcp-public-data-goes-19
0 Information on Google Cloud data access for GOES datasets. https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/noaa-public/goes
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 Overview of the GCOS Essential Climate Variables. https://public.wmo.int/en/programmes/global-climate-observing-system/essential-climate-variables
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
21 Webpage with product algorithm, users guides, and education and outreach materials. https://www.goes-r.gov/resources/docs.html
21 GOES spacecraft status page. https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Operations/GOES/status.html

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