Himawari-8 AHI proxy data file

February 2013
Meteorological Satellite Center
Japan Meteorological Agency


The file (h8ahiproxy_rstar_gsm_YYYYMMDDHHMN.tar.gz) contains AHI proxy data computed by radiative transfer simulation.

The zipped file contains the directory and files shown below.

YYYYMMDDHHMN/
            |- h8ahiproxy_rstar_gsm_band01.nc
            |- h8ahiproxy_rstar_gsm_band02.nc
            |- h8ahiproxy_rstar_gsm_band03.nc
            |- h8ahiproxy_rstar_gsm_band04.nc
            |- h8ahiproxy_rstar_gsm_band05.nc
            |- h8ahiproxy_rstar_gsm_band06.nc
            |- h8ahiproxy_rstar_gsm_band07.nc
            |- h8ahiproxy_rstar_gsm_band08.nc
            |- h8ahiproxy_rstar_gsm_band09.nc
            |- h8ahiproxy_rstar_gsm_band10.nc
            |- h8ahiproxy_rstar_gsm_band11.nc
            |- h8ahiproxy_rstar_gsm_band12.nc
            |- h8ahiproxy_rstar_gsm_band13.nc
            |- h8ahiproxy_rstar_gsm_band14.nc
            |- h8ahiproxy_rstar_gsm_band15.nc
            |- h8ahiproxy_rstar_gsm_band16.nc


"YYYYMMDDHHMN" represents the date and time of the proxy data. 

  YYYY: year
  MM  : month
  DD  : day
  HH  : hour
  MN  : minute

band01 to band16 represent observation bands of AHI as shown below:

  band01: 0.46um (Visible)
  band02: 0.51um (Visible)
  band03: 0.64um (Visible)
  band04: 0.86um (Near-Infrared)
  band05:  1.6um (Near-Infrared)
  band06:  2.3um (Near-Infrared)
  band07:  3.9um (Infrared)
  band08:  6.2um (Infrared)
  band09:  7.0um (Infrared)
  band10:  7.3um (Infrared)
  band11:  8.6um (Infrared)
  band12:  9.6um (Infrared)
  band13: 10.4um (Infrared)
  band14: 11.2um (Infrared)
  band15: 12.3um (Infrared)
  band16: 13.3um (Infrared)


For details, see
http://www.data.jma.go.jp/mscweb/en/himawari89/space_segment/spsg_ahi_proxy.html