Himawari 8/9 Full Disk Himawari Standard Data - Archive (ARC) data stream

Updated: 2023-01-11

Himawari 8/9 full disk observations in the Himawari Standard Data (HSD) data format, distributed by the Japan Meteorological Agency to other national meteorological agencies, such as the Bureau of Meteorology. This product contains the uncalibrated digital numbers as retreived by the Advanced Himawari Imager instrument. Calibration coefficients must be applied to create physically meaningful units. Intended for expert users only. Higher level products derived from this data can be found in the Bureau of Meteorology - Satellite Observations (ra22) and Bureau of Meteorology - Satellite Derived Products (rv74) data collections. Products in the Archive (ARC) data stream have been gap-filled. gap-filling is typically done monthly, within six to twelve weeks of the NRT products being made available. Gap filling occurs to ensure the dataset is of the highest quality.