DYCOMS-II Satellite: GOES-10 Channel 3 (Water Vapor) Sectored Imagery (GIF) 1.0 General Information The GOES-10 Channel 3 (Water Vapor) Sectored Imagery (GIF) is one of several satellite products collected as part of the Dynamics and Chemistry of Marine Stratocumulus Phase II: Entrainment Studies (DYCOMS-II) project field catalog operated by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research/Joint Office for Science Support (UCAR/JOSS; http://www.joss.ucar.edu/dycoms/catalog/). UCAR/JOSS utilized its SeaSpace system to retrieve data from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 10 (GOES-10) and developed sectors over the DYCOMS-II region. This data set consists of the sectored 4-km imagery from Channel 3 (Water Vapor; 6.75um) of the GOES-10 satellite. The products cover the period from 1 - 30 July 2001 and cover the DYCOMS-II sector (27-37N and 114-126W). The products are typically available every 15 minutes, but rapid scan imagery are also often available (most often during the afternoon and evening hours). All images are in gif format. 2.0 Data Contact Scot Loehrer (loehrer@ucar.edu) 3.0 Product Information UCAR/JOSS utilized its SeaSpace system to retrieve data from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 10 (GOES-10) and developed sectors over the DYCOMS-II region. This data set consists of the sectored imagery from Channel 3 (water vapor) of the GOES-10 satellite. 4.0 Quality Control Procedures UCAR/JOSS conducted no quality checks on these data. 5.0 File Naming Convention The file names are structured as follows: goes-10.yyyymmddhhmm.gvar_ch3.gif Where goes-10 is the satellite used yyyy is the four digit year mm is the two digit month dd is the two digit day hh is the hour (UTC) mm is the minute gvar_ch3 is the name of the product 6.0 References None.