CACATOES database V1.04

The CACATOES database is a level-3 product derived from the TOOCAN database. It allows to analyze the MCSs over the entire tropical belt by an Eulerian approach. The integrated morphological parameters of each MCS have been projected into a 1°/1day grid and the characteristics of all the MCSs occurring in a given gridpoint have been sorted according to the area occupied within this gridpoint. The most representative MCS can then be easily identified for a given 1°/1day gridpoint. This new version 1.04 of the CACATOES database is available for the 9-year period from 2012 to 2020 over the whole tropical belt [30°S-30°N] and is composed by 1°/1day global monthly files in NETCDF. Fiolleau, T. and R. Roca, 2013: An Algorithm for the Detection and Tracking of Tropical Mesoscale Convective Systems Using Infrared Images From Geostationary Satellite, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 51, no. 7, pp. 4302–4315. doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2227762 Fiolleau, T., R. Roca, S. Cloché, D. Bouniol, P. Raberanto, 2020: Homogenization of geostationary infrared imager channels for cold cloud studies using Megha-Tropiques/ScaRaB. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol 58, no. 9, pp. 6609-6622. doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2020.2978171