DSCOVR Options

[ljk4-1]

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WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 6 Jan 06 Washington, DC
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http://bobpark.physics.umd.edu/index.html

[scalbers]

Interesting to see this document that seems to be associated with their color processing improvements from a few years ago. Good to see they mention the CIE color processing. In the past the H5 file images weren't corrected yet for Earth's rotation as can be seen in the image from two posts up. I wonder if this is newly being done in the H5 file or in another version of the files shown, or simply later on in their processing for the L1b and web images?

The "brown eclipse" issue may stem from a lack of eclipse support in Rayleigh corrections employed with both DSCOVR and GOES image processing. An alternative to the Rayleigh correction the DSCOVR team is using could be a logarithmic interpolation between the observed bands to construct the full spectrum as I've been considering in the context of sky simulations.

Yes I try to account for solar limb darkening when simulating eclipses, from space-based and ground-based or high-altitude views. The DSCOVR perspective view simulation is something I'm ironing out at present - here is a first look based on land surface and 3D atmospheric analysis data fully independent of DSCOVR.