Increasing the spatial resolution of cloud property retrievals from Meteosat SEVIRI by use of its high-resolution visible channel: implementation and examples
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Published:2021-07-28
Issue:7
Volume:14
Page:5107-5126
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ISSN:1867-8548
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Container-title:Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Atmos. Meas. Tech.
Author:
Deneke HartwigORCID, Barrientos-Velasco CarolaORCID, Bley Sebastian, Hünerbein AnjaORCID, Lenk Stephan, Macke AndreasORCID, Meirink Jan FokkeORCID, Schroedter-Homscheidt MarionORCID, Senf FabianORCID, Wang Ping, Werner FrankORCID, Witthuhn JonasORCID
Abstract
Abstract. The modification of an existing cloud property retrieval scheme for
the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) instrument
on board the geostationary Meteosat satellites is described to utilize
its high-resolution visible (HRV) channel for increasing the spatial
resolution of its physical outputs. This results in products with a
nadir spatial resolution of 1×1 km2 compared to
the standard 3×3 km2 resolution offered by the
narrowband channels. This improvement thus greatly reduces the
resolution gap between current geostationary and polar-orbiting
meteorological satellite imagers. In the first processing step,
cloudiness is determined from the HRV observations by a
threshold-based cloud masking algorithm. Subsequently, a linear model
that links the 0.6 µm, 0.8 µm, and HRV
reflectances provides a physical constraint to incorporate the spatial
high-frequency component of the HRV observations into the retrieval of
cloud optical depth. The implementation of the method is described,
including the ancillary datasets used. It is demonstrated that the
omission of high-frequency variations in the cloud-absorbing
1.6 µm channel results in comparatively large
uncertainties in the retrieved cloud effective radius, likely due to
the mismatch in channel resolutions. A newly developed downscaling
scheme for the 1.6 µm reflectance is therefore applied
to mitigate the effects of this scale mismatch. Benefits of the
increased spatial resolution of the resulting SEVIRI products are
demonstrated for three example applications: (i) for a convective
cloud field, it is shown that significantly better agreement between
the distributions of cloud optical depth retrieved from SEVIRI and
from collocated MODIS observations is achieved. (ii) The temporal
evolution of cloud properties for a growing convective storm at
standard and HRV spatial resolutions are compared, illustrating an
improved contrast in growth signatures resulting from the use of the
HRV channel. (iii) An example of surface solar irradiance, determined
from the retrieved cloud properties, is shown, for which the HRV channel
helps to better capture the large spatiotemporal variability induced
by convective clouds. These results suggest that incorporating the HRV
channel into the retrieval has potential for improving Meteosat-based
cloud products for several application domains.
Publisher
Copernicus GmbH
Subject
Atmospheric Science
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