VAP : Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES)
Instrument Categories
Satellite Observations
Output Products
- goes12minnis : GOES-12: 0.5 degree cloud products
- goes12uth : GOES-12: upper tropospheric humidity
- goes12uthgrid : GOES-12: upper tropospheric humidity (0.5 degree grid)
- goes8uth : GOES-8: upper tropospheric humidity
- goes8uthgrid : GOES-8: upper tropospheric humidity (0.5 degree grid)
- goes9uth : Upper Tropospheric Relative Humidity (GOES-9)
- goes9uthgrid : (GOES-9) Upper Tropospheric Relative Humidity Gridded
Primary Measurements
The following measurements are those considered scientifically relevant.
- Atmospheric moisture
- Atmospheric temperature
- Cloud fraction
- Cloud top height
- Longwave broadband net irradiance
- Optical depth
- Longwave narrowband radiance
- Shortwave broadband radiance
- Surface albedo
