SEVIRI Rapid Scan Atmospheric Motion Vectors Climate Data Record Release 1 - MSG

Release 1 of the Climate Data Record (CDR) of MSG imager SEVIRI (Spinning Enhanced Visible Infra-Red Imager) High-Resolution Wind (HRW) from the Rapid Scan Service (RSS). This release covers the MSG SEVIRI RSS record from three different satellite platforms Meteosat-8 to -10. The CDR covers 12 years’ worth of data from 2008-05-06 until 2020-04-03 and there is a product every five minutes in NetCDF format. It provides information on Atmospheric motion vectors (AMV) speed (ms-1), direction (degree), and height (given in pressure units Pa) of vectors which are derived by tracking cloud or water vapour features between two images in time. AMV are wind vectors retrieved at all heights below the tropopause, derived from High Resolution Visible (HRV), Visible 0.6 microns Water Vapour (6.2 microns and 7.3 microns) and 10.8 microns. Infrared channels. In all channels, winds are retrieved by tracking cloud features. For the two WV channels, water vapour features are also tracked (clear sky winds). The data record has been generated using the NWC SAF software for geostationary satellites (NWC/GEO).