NJIAS Himawari-8/9 Cloud Feature Dataset (HCFD)–0.04Deg. Part I: 2016–2017

The NJIAS HCFD–0.04Deg provides a comprehensive description of cloud features over the west North Pacific regions spanning 10°N–50°N and 90°E–170°W. It includes 26 variables, such as cloud mask, type, top height, optical thickness, and particle effective radius, as well as snow and dust masks, which were generated from the visible and infrared measurements of the Advanced Himawari Imager onboard the Japanese geostationary satellites Himawari-8/9, based on a series of cloud retrieval algorithms developed by Dr. Zhuge. As the first part of NJIAS HCFD–0.04Deg, this dataset covers the period from April 2016 to December 2017, with a temporal resolution of 30 min and a spatial resolution of 0.04°.