January 26, 2005

1) These data are ABI bands 6~16 Brightness Temperature [unit: K] simulation 
  (IHOP case) at 5 minutes temporal resolution.

  The original atmospheric profiles were run by MM5 (in NetCDF), and can be found at:
    barrage.ssec.wisc.edu   or   papacha.ssec.wisc.edu
  under the directory:
   /mnt/europa/WX_Models/MM5-PROGS/IHOP/CASES/June11-12.2002/DS1_REL2/PROFILES_NETCDF

  and all ABI bands short description can be found here:
  http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/abi/ABI_AMS_2004.pdf

2) All data are saved in IEEE floating point with big-endian byte ordering.
   
3) Long/Lat Data dimension is 128 by 128, while the simulated data is 11 by 128 by 128.

4) Sample MATLAB script to read these data is:
   read_IHOP_simulation.m

5) GOES-R ABI URL at SSEC/CIMSS is:
   http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/abi/
    
6) Questions?  Please contact:
   Dr. Jun Li    <jun.li@ssec.wisc.edu>  
   Chian-Yi Liu  <cyliu@ssec.wisc.edu>