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README file for HIMAWARI 08 AHI instrument
26/05/2014
P. Brunel
Data has been provided by Masaya Takahashi
(Meteorological Satellite Center, Japan Meteorological Agency)
by email. The file containing SRF is named AHI-8_SpectralResponsivity_Data.xlsx
and is noted "release Sept 2013"
It is also available at
  http://mscweb.kishou.go.jp/himawari89/space_segment/srf_201309/AHI-08_SpectralResponsivity.zip
Some SRFs are very large, some has negative values. The SRFs for RTTOV are corrected
Nominal central wavelength (microns):
Band1     0.47
Band2     0.51
Band3     0.64
Band4     0.86
Band5     1.6
Band6     2.3
README file for HIMAWARI 08 AHI instrument
26/05/2014
P. Brunel
Data has been provided by Masaya Takahashi
(Meteorological Satellite Center, Japan Meteorological Agency)
by email. The file containing SRF is named AHI-8_SpectralResponsivity_Data.xlsx
and is noted "release Sept 2013"
It is also available at
  http://mscweb.kishou.go.jp/himawari89/space_segment/srf_201309/AHI-08_SpectralResponsivity.zip
Some SRFs are very large, some has negative values. The SRFs for RTTOV are corrected
Nominal central wavelength (microns):
Band7     3.9
Band8     6.2
Band9     6.9
Band10    7.3
Band11    8.6
Band12    9.6
Band13   10.4
Band14   11.2
Band15   12.4
Band16   13.3
Download all SRFs: rtcoef_himawari_8_ahi_srf.tar.gz
Channel 01 Central wavenumber/wavelength: 21291.985 cm-1 / 0.470 microns Comment: 1, channel 1 SRF extracted from AHI-8_SpectralResponsivity_Data.xlsx (release Sept 2013) SRF data: rtcoef_himawari_8_ahi_srf_ch01.txt SRF plot: rtcoef_himawari_8_ahi_srf_ch01.png |
Channel 02 Central wavenumber/wavelength: 19631.116 cm-1 / 0.509 microns Comment: 2, channel 2 SRF extracted from AHI-8_SpectralResponsivity_Data.xlsx (release Sept 2013) SRF data: rtcoef_himawari_8_ahi_srf_ch02.txt SRF plot: rtcoef_himawari_8_ahi_srf_ch02.png |
Channel 03 Central wavenumber/wavelength: 15715.376 cm-1 / 0.636 microns Comment: 3, channel 3 SRF extracted from AHI-8_SpectralResponsivity_Data.xlsx (release Sept 2013) SRF data: rtcoef_himawari_8_ahi_srf_ch03.txt SRF plot: rtcoef_himawari_8_ahi_srf_ch03.png |
Channel 04 Central wavenumber/wavelength: 11679.212 cm-1 / 0.856 microns Comment: 4, channel 4 SRF extracted from AHI-8_SpectralResponsivity_Data.xlsx (release Sept 2013) SRF data: rtcoef_himawari_8_ahi_srf_ch04.txt SRF plot: rtcoef_himawari_8_ahi_srf_ch04.png |
Channel 05 Central wavenumber/wavelength: 6212.572 cm-1 / 1.610 microns Comment: 5, channel 5 SRF extracted from AHI-8_SpectralResponsivity_Data.xlsx (release Sept 2013) SRF data: rtcoef_himawari_8_ahi_srf_ch05.txt SRF plot: rtcoef_himawari_8_ahi_srf_ch05.png |
Channel 06 Central wavenumber/wavelength: 4431.791 cm-1 / 2.256 microns Comment: 6, channel 6 SRF extracted from AHI-8_SpectralResponsivity_Data.xlsx (release Sept 2013) SRF data: rtcoef_himawari_8_ahi_srf_ch06.txt SRF plot: rtcoef_himawari_8_ahi_srf_ch06.png |
Channel 07 Central wavenumber/wavelength: 2575.767 cm-1 / 3.882 microns Comment: 7, channel 7 SRF extracted from AHI-8_SpectralResponsivity_Data.xlsx (release Sept 2013) SRF data: rtcoef_himawari_8_ahi_srf_ch07.txt SRF plot: rtcoef_himawari_8_ahi_srf_ch07.png |
Channel 08 Central wavenumber/wavelength: 1609.241 cm-1 / 6.214 microns Comment: 8, channel 8 SRF extracted from AHI-8_SpectralResponsivity_Data.xlsx (release Sept 2013) SRF data: rtcoef_himawari_8_ahi_srf_ch08.txt SRF plot: rtcoef_himawari_8_ahi_srf_ch08.png |
Channel 09 Central wavenumber/wavelength: 1442.079 cm-1 / 6.934 microns Comment: 9, channel 9 SRF extracted from AHI-8_SpectralResponsivity_Data.xlsx (release Sept 2013) SRF data: rtcoef_himawari_8_ahi_srf_ch09.txt SRF plot: rtcoef_himawari_8_ahi_srf_ch09.png |
Channel 10 Central wavenumber/wavelength: 1361.387 cm-1 / 7.345 microns Comment: 10, channel 10 SRF extracted from AHI-8_SpectralResponsivity_Data.xlsx (release Sept 2013) SRF data: rtcoef_himawari_8_ahi_srf_ch10.txt SRF plot: rtcoef_himawari_8_ahi_srf_ch10.png |
Channel 11 Central wavenumber/wavelength: 1164.443 cm-1 / 8.588 microns Comment: 11, channel 11 SRF extracted from AHI-8_SpectralResponsivity_Data.xlsx (release Sept 2013) SRF data: rtcoef_himawari_8_ahi_srf_ch11.txt SRF plot: rtcoef_himawari_8_ahi_srf_ch11.png |
Channel 12 Central wavenumber/wavelength: 1038.108 cm-1 / 9.633 microns Comment: 12, channel 12 SRF extracted from AHI-8_SpectralResponsivity_Data.xlsx (release Sept 2013) SRF data: rtcoef_himawari_8_ahi_srf_ch12.txt SRF plot: rtcoef_himawari_8_ahi_srf_ch12.png |
Channel 13 Central wavenumber/wavelength: 961.333 cm-1 / 10.402 microns Comment: 13, channel 13 SRF extracted from AHI-8_SpectralResponsivity_Data.xlsx (release Sept 2013) SRF data: rtcoef_himawari_8_ahi_srf_ch13.txt SRF plot: rtcoef_himawari_8_ahi_srf_ch13.png |
Channel 14 Central wavenumber/wavelength: 890.741 cm-1 / 11.227 microns Comment: 14, channel 14 SRF extracted from AHI-8_SpectralResponsivity_Data.xlsx (release Sept 2013) SRF data: rtcoef_himawari_8_ahi_srf_ch14.txt SRF plot: rtcoef_himawari_8_ahi_srf_ch14.png |
Channel 15 Central wavenumber/wavelength: 809.242 cm-1 / 12.357 microns Comment: 15, channel 15 SRF extracted from AHI-8_SpectralResponsivity_Data.xlsx (release Sept 2013) SRF data: rtcoef_himawari_8_ahi_srf_ch15.txt SRF plot: rtcoef_himawari_8_ahi_srf_ch15.png |
Channel 16 Central wavenumber/wavelength: 753.369 cm-1 / 13.274 microns Comment: 16, channel 16 SRF extracted from AHI-8_SpectralResponsivity_Data.xlsx (release Sept 2013) SRF data: rtcoef_himawari_8_ahi_srf_ch16.txt SRF plot: rtcoef_himawari_8_ahi_srf_ch16.png |