Himawari-8 satellite observations regridded to the Aus400 domain

Satellite-derived products from Himawari-8 satellite regridded to the Aus400 domain. This dataset contains derived satellite observations of cloud properties over the Australian region at 10-minutes temporal resolution and 1 km spatial resolution. The regrided dataset is produced using the Geostationary Cloud Algorithm Testbed (Geocat) together with pre-processed ancillary data. 

The cloud properties were calculated with temporal resolution 10 minutes using the full-disk domain for 00:00 UTC 26 March 2017 to 23:50 UTC 28 March 2017; then, the information was reprojected to a regular latitude/longitude grid over the AUS400 domain. 
The variables included are:
- Cloud top pressure: CTP_ACHA_Mode_8
- Cloud top temperature: CTT_ACHA_Mode_8
- Cloud optical depth (VIS): COD_ACHA_Mode_8  
- Brightness temperature Channel 13 (10.4 μm spectral band): BT_CH_13_HMW8 

The tool used to apply Geocat is described here: http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/csppgeo/geocat.htmlhttp://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/csppgeo/geocat.html.

The input data are Himawari-8 AHI retrievals v1.3, freely available from the Japanese Meteorological Agency. Meteorological Satellite Centre of JMA: https://www.data.jma.go.jp/mscweb/en/himawari89/space_segment/sample_hisd.html

File names: 

[Variable]_AUS400_Himawari8_AHI_[YYYYDDD]_[HHMM]00.nc

where variable names are s listed above and date and time are defined as:

- YYYY: Year
- DDD: Julian day
- HH: Hour
- MM: Minutes

e.g., BT_CH_13_HMW8_AUS400_Himawari-8_AHI_2017087_221000.nc

As gaps can be present in the observations, they are listed in separate files:

[Variable]__files_gaps.txt

e.g., BT_CH_13_HMW8_files_gaps.txt

This dataset is a product of the Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CLEX) Extreme rainfall research program.

Acknowledgements

The authors thank to Community Satellite Processing Package Geostationary Data (CSPP-Geo project, University of Wisconsin-Madison).