Regional
1 km CLAVR-x Products and Images
This page demonstrates some of the information contained within the
standard pixel-level HDF output files from the CLAVR-x system.
The level 1b data shown here were provided by
NOAA/NESDIS/CLASS. The goal of this page is provide some visual
diagnostics of the performance of the CLAVR-x system. All data
shown here is available from OSDPD.
NOAA-18 HRPT
METOP - A FRAC
How to view these results.
- Click on one the above links.
- Click on a data-set name link
- An AniS Java applet will open. It has the following controls
- Move to the next image by pressing the ">" button
- Move to the previous image by pressing the "<" button
- Each block represents an image. Images can be turned off or on by clicking on the appropriate block
- With the cursor in the image, left click zooms in, right click zooms out.
- Drag the cursor to move within the image when zoomed in.
Description of Images
The following images are shown for each orbit. Image 1 corresponds to the block on the left.
- Land + Day/Night Mask (for visual reference)
- False Color (red=R1, green = R2, blue T4 reversed)
- False Color (red=R1, green = R3a/b ref, blue = T4 reversed)
- False Color (red=T4-T5,green = T3b-T5, blue T4 reversed)
- Cloud Type
- SST
- Cloud Top Temperature
- Cloud Emissivity
- Cloud Optical Depth (day time only)
- Cloud Particle Size (day time only)
Access to the Data
The data files used to make these images are available here.
