WXP
Appendix

WMO Header Descriptions for
Image Data

WMO Header information

Syntax:

TTSAII SSSS

Where:

T - Report type (Always "T")
T - Data type
S - Satellite type
A - Area type
II - Product type
SSSS - Image source

Data Type (T)

T Description
A Atmospheric parameters
D Databases
I Images
O Ocean surface

Satellite (S)

S Description
D DMSP
E ERS
G GOES
J JERS
K GMS
M Meteosat
R GOES 16/17 Large-scale
S GOES 16 Mesoscale
T TIROS
U GOES 17 Mesoscale

Area Type or Data Subtype (A)

A Area type Comment
A Alaska Regional
B Alaska National
E East CONUS
F Northern Hemisphere
H Hawaii Regional
I Hawaii National
N Super-National Composite
P Puerto Rico Regional
Q Puerto Rico National
S East Fuil Disk
T West Fuil Disk
W West CONUS

Product Type (II) Legacy

II Description
01 Visible
02 11 micron (standard IR)
03 12 micron
04 3.9 micron
05 6.7 micron (water vapor)
06 Derived #1
07 Derived #2
08 Derived #3
09 Derived #4

Product Type (II) GOES-R

II Name Wavelength Function
01 ABI chan 01 - Visible Blue 0.47 Aerosols
02 ABI chan 02 - Visible Red 0.64 Clouds, high res
03 ABI chan 03 - Near IR Veg 0.865 Vegetation
04 ABI chan 04 - Near IR Cirrus 1.378 Clouds, cirrus
05 ABI chan 05 - Near IR Snow/Ice 1.61 Clouds, snow/ice
06 ABI chan 06 - Near IR Particle 2.25 Clouds, particle size
07 ABI chan 07 - IR Shortwave 3.90 Fog, stratus
08 ABI chan 08 - Upper Level Water Vapor 6.90
09 ABI chan 09 - Mid Level Water Vapor 6.95 Common WV
10 ABI chan 10 - Low Level Water Vapor 7.34
11 ABI chan 11 - IR Cloud Top Phase 8.50
12 ABI chan 12 - IR Ozone 9.61 Total column ozone
13 ABI chan 13 - IR Clean Longwave 10.35 Clouds
14 ABI chan 14 - IR Longwave Window 11.20 Clouds
15 ABI chan 15 - IR Dirty Longwave 12.30 Clouds
16 ABI chan 16 - IR CO2 Longwave 13.30 Clouds, air temperature

Image Source

SSSS Description
KNES NOAA NESDIS


Last updated April 30, 2020