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Himawari RGB Quick Guide


Himawari RGB Quick Guides

Outline

Himawari RGB Quick Guides provide basic summaries on the use of RGB composite imagery.
They are designed simply with front and reverse sides for ease of printing and lamination. A total of 18 Quick Guides are provided in relation to SATAID software to facilitate daily work.

Guides contain information on:
Main application(s), benefits and limitations

Typical cases

Color interpretation

RGB recipe (RGB composition: combinations of imagery assigned to the three primary colors with recommended thresholds) and related specifications


Himawari RGB Quick Guides by Purpose

Click on an RGB name to download the relevant content.
*Print list (.pdf)Download all (.zip)
Fog or Low-level Clouds

Day-time
Day Snow-Fog

Natural Colors

Day Cloud Phase

Cloud Phase Distinction


Night-time
Night Microphysics


Day and night
24-hour Microphysics


Water Clouds and Ice Clouds (day-time only)


Natural Colors

Day Cloud Phase

Cloud Phase Distinction


Icing
Day Microphysics


Convective Clouds (day-time only)


Day Convective Storms

Day Cloud Phase


Synoptic Systems (air masses, jet streams, cyclogenesis, etc.)


Airmass

Simple Water Vapor

Differential Water Vapor


Dust (yellow sand)


Dust

True Color

24-hour Microphysics


Volcanic Phenomena

Volcanic ash/ Sulfur dioxide (SO2)
Ash

Dust

24-hour Microphysics

True Color

SO2


Hot spot (crater)
Day Microphysics

Fire Temperature

Natural Fire Color


Forest Fires

Hot spot (heat source)
Day Microphysics

Fire Temperature

Natural Fire Color


Smoke
True Color

Natural Fire Color


Surface Features

Surface (vegetation/bare soil/snow and ice)
Natural Colors


Snow and ice
Day Snow-Fog


Himawari RGB Quick Guides

Himawari RGB quick guides

Useful Links

Meteorological Satellite Center Technical Notes

EUMeTrain Quick Guides (External link)

VISIT (joint effort involving NOAA-NESDIS Cooperative Institutes) Quick Guides (External link)





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