Dear all,
I am wondering whether anyone might know a good name for per pixel time
offset in MSG data.
A complete meteosat full disk scan takes 25 minutes, because the imager
scans the disk line by line. This means that each line of pixels is
observed at consecutive times. The first pixels have a time offset of
zero, while the last pixels are measured several minutes later.
We would like to make this information available in a standard way. We
would like to define a 2D (x,y) variable field in which the time of
observation is stored for each pixel (relative to the start of the scan,
starting at zero).
What would be a good standard name for this variable?
We came up with two names...:
- pixel_delta_time (s)
- time_offset_of_observation (s)
What do you think?
Thanks in advance,
Maarten Plieger
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Maarten Plieger
KNMI, R&D Information and Observation Technology, De Bilt
(t) +31 30 2206330
Received on Mon Jan 24 2011 - 06:58:04 GMT
