Product Documentation

Product definition document:

PDD_SAPHIR-L2-RH_V1_R5.pdf (updated in January 2017)

Version history:

Version 1.00: Released July 2015. Original version
Version 2.00: Released November 2015. Modification of format, minor correction in algorithm over land.
Version 3.00: Released March 2017. Compared to the RH estimation scheme used in Version 2.00 which relied on Normal distributions, Version 3.00 product relies on a Beta distribution as its compact support and allowance for asymmetries about the mean are more favorable for describing the relative humidity. The estimation of parameters also provides a characterization of the retrieval uncertainty of RH for every observing pixel of SAPHIR
Version 3.01: Released July 2018. In this new version, the quality flags have been re-defined in order to take into account situations where the RH values result from an extrapolation of the retrieval model, and thus can be reasonably questioned. The valid range is considered to be 25% below/above the training range of the model. Those extrapolated data are now considered as missing, and a new quality flag is introduced

File description: MT1_L2-RH-SAPSL1A2-1.07_2017-03-01T12-24-41_V3-00.hdf


Geolocation_Fields/Latitude dataset attributes

Dataset attribute DataType Dimensions Value
long_name string 1 Latitude
units string 1 deg
format string 1 32-bit floating-point
HDF_Calibration_Equation string 1 physical_value = scale_factor*(SDS_count - add_offset)
Missing_Output float32 1 -999.900024414
QA_SDS string 1 None
actual_range float32 2 [-28.079999923706055, 27.439998626708984]
Num_Fill int32 1 0
Num_Missing_Output int32 1 0
Num_Valid int32 1 539500
Physical_Range float64 2 [-90.0, 90.0]
Comments string 1 Latitude of the pixel
valid_range float32 2 [-90.0, 90.0]
_FillValue float32 1 99999.0
scale_factor float64 1 1.0
scale_factor_err float64 1 0.0
add_offset float64 1 0.0
add_offset_err float64 1 0.0
calibrated_nt int32 1 5
 

 

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