Atmospheric Motion Vectors Climate Data Record Release 1 - MSG - Indian Ocean 41.5 degrees E

This is the first release of the reprocessed Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) Atmospheric Motion Vectors (AMV) Thematic Climate Data Record (TCDR) for the Indian Ocean Data Coverage (IODC) region. It contains AMV at all heights below the tropopause, derived from images in 2 channels (Water Vapor 6.2, Infrared 10.8) of the instrument SEVIRI on board MSG. Vectors are retrieved by tracking the motion of clouds and other atmospheric constituents such as water vapor patterns. The height assignment of the AMVs is calculated using the Cross-Correlation Contribution (CCC) function to determine the height using the pixels that contribute the most to the vectors. The final vector is estimated averaging the speed and height over 4 consecutive images. A quality indicator is derived for each vector to assess the reliability of the retrieval. Products are stored in netCDF4 format and generated from Meteosat-8 satellite, covering the period from February 2017 to August 2019.