Weather Satellite Resources
This wiki provides some organization to weather satellite resources that are available to researchers. It is meant to be an entry-point for using satellite data in your work, with references to basic information on different instruments, where to get data, basic I/O, and simple notebook examples for some common problems.
Check out the Geostationary section for further information on geostationary satellite instruments, which continuously view the earth from the same position, 35,786 km (22,236 miles) above the earth’s surface.
Low-Earth orbit satellites are much closer to the earth (200-1600 km above the surface), and often have instruments with better spatial resolution than their geostationary counterparts. However, their return periods can be considerable – 12 hours or more. The phenomena you are interested in will help determine which satellite instrument data to use for your research.
Utilities provides some scripts to compute the solar-zenith angle, satellite-viewing angle (aka satellite-zenith angle), and parallax correction for Geostationary satellites, assuming a constant cloud height.
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This project is under active development.