Introduction to the NJIAS Himawari-8/9 Cloud Feature Dataset for climate and typhoon research

Zhuge, Xiaoyong; Zou, Xiaolei; Yu, Lu; Li, Xin; Zeng, Mingjian; Chen, Yilun; Zhang, Bing; Yao, Bin; Tang, Fei; Chen, Fengjiao; Kan, Wanlin

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-1747-2024

Articles | Volume 16, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-1747-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-1747-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 4

Data description paper

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08 Apr 2024

Data description paper |

| 08 Apr 2024

Introduction to the NJIAS Himawari-8/9 Cloud Feature Dataset for climate and typhoon research

Xiaoyong Zhuge, Xiaolei Zou, Lu Yu, Xin Li, Mingjian Zeng, Yilun Chen, Bing Zhang, Bin Yao, Fei Tang, Fengjiao Chen, and Wanlin Kan

Data sets

NJIAS Himawari-8/9 Cloud Feature Dataset (HCFD)–0.04Deg. Part I: 2016–2017 (Version 4) Xiaoyong Zhuge https://doi.org/10.57760/sciencedb.09950

NJIAS Himawari-8/9 Cloud Feature Dataset (HCFD)–0.04Deg. Part II: 2018–2019 (Version 4) Xiaoyong Zhuge https://doi.org/10.57760/sciencedb.09953

NJIAS Himawari-8/9 Cloud Feature Dataset (HCFD)–0.04Deg. Part III: 2020–2021 (Version 4) Xiaoyong Zhuge https://doi.org/10.57760/sciencedb.09954

NJIAS Himawari-8/9 Cloud Feature Dataset (HCFD)–0.04Deg. Part IV: 2022–2023 (Version 4) Xiaoyong Zhuge https://doi.org/10.57760/sciencedb.10158

NJIAS Himawari-8/9 Cloud Feature Dataset (HCFD)–TyWNP (Version 4) Xiaoyong Zhuge https://doi.org/10.57760/sciencedb.09945

Short summary

The Himawari-8/9 level-2 operational cloud product has a low spatial resolution and is available only during the daytime. To supplement this official dataset, a new dataset named the NJIAS Himawari-8/9 Cloud Feature Dataset (HCFD) was constructed. The NJIAS HCFD provides a comprehensive description of cloud features over the East Asia and west North Pacific regions for the years 2016–2022 by 30 retrieved cloud variables. The NJIAS HCFD has been demonstrated to outperform the official dataset.