Meteosat Indian Ocean Surface Solar Irradiance

IDENTIFICATION
Description	Estimation of the solar irradiance reaching the Earth surface derived from the 0.6 µm visible channel of SEVIRI on board the geostationary satellite Meteosat. Algorithm is a physical parametrization applied separately to every pixel of a satellite image to derive an instantaneous field of the Surface Solar Irradiance. The hourly product is interpolated at rounded UT hours, by a pixel dependant temporal interpolation between two consecutive satellite images. The value in the daily product is the integration of all the hourly values in the UT day. The product is remapped onto a 0.05° regular grid and expressed in W/m2.
Product type	Near real time product
Status	Demonstrational
Identifier	OSI-IO-SSI
Acronym	MET IO SSI

CHARACTERISTICS
Processing level	L3
Satellite input	Meteosat-8/SEVIRI
Other input	NA
Frequency	24 per day + 1 per day
Timeliness	2 h
Spatial coverage	East Atlantic, West Indian: 60N-60S 18.5W-101.5E
Spatial sampling	0.05° Lat-Lon
Characteristics & methods	physical method

ACCURACY REQUIREMENTS
Thresold accuracy	monthly relative bias : 20%, monthly relative Std. Deviation : 50%
Target accuracy	monthly (TBC) relative bias : 10%, monthly relative Std. Deviation :30%
Optimal accuracy	monthly relative bias : 0%, monthly relative Std. Deviation :10%
Verification/validation method	routine comparison with pyranometer measurements

DATA ACCESS
Diffusion mean(s) and format(s)	LML FTP Server (NetCDF4)
Main FTP server	LML FTP server (hosted by Ifremer)	Other FTP server, other mean(s) to access main server	backup LML FTP server (last 7 days) Thredds HTTPS
EUMETCast	EUMETCast	Discovery mean(s)
EUMETSAT Data Centre	EDC	Discovery mean(s)
Applications and users	Ocean atmosphere studies.	OSI SAF Producer	Météo-France

VIEW MORE		DOCUMENTATION
Product web page	Description	Product User Manual	PUM
Live production status	Status
Scientific Validation Report	SVR

HISTORY, COMMENTS
From 19/01/2021, processed with a new chain
Authorised to be operational/released	04/11/2016
First product date	27/04/2017

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