All-Sky Radiances - MSG - 0 degree (CF-015 Release 1)

The ASR product contains information on mean brightness temperatures (16x16 pixels so around 50km at nadir) from all thermal (e.g. infrared and water vapour) channels. It includes both clear and cloudy sky brightness temperatures.

The ASR product also contains the fraction of clear sky and the solar zenith angle. The final ASR product is BUFR encoded 3-hourly at every third quarter of the hour (e.g. 00:45, 01:45 ...).Note that the reprocessing was done using the latest version of the EUMETSAT software (Version 1.5.3, 2013) ingesting original level 1.5 SEVIRI images and the ECMWF ERA-interim as a as a forecast input re-analysis data.