MSG: Dust imagery in the RGB channels over the full disc at 41.5 degrees East (LEDF41, upto 0900 UTC 1st June 2022)

The Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellites, operated by EUMETSAT (The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites), provide almost continuous imagery to meteorologists and researchers in Europe and around the world. These include visible, infra-red, water vapour, High Resolution Visible (HRV) images and derived cloud top height, cloud top temperature, fog, snow detection and volcanic ash products. These images are available for a range of geographical areas.

This dataset contains RGB dust images from MSG satellites over the full disc at 41.5 degrees East. Imagery available from November 2021 until 0900 UTC 1st June 2022 (see following note) at a frequency of 15 minutes (some are hourly) and are at least 24 hours old.

NOTE - from 1st February 2022 to 20th April 2022 Meteosat-9 was drifted from 3.5 E to 45.5E at a rate of 0.5 degree a day drift to a new observation location centred over 45.5 degrees East to take over as the prime IODC (Indian Ocean Data Coverage) satellite from 30th May 2022. This role was previously by Meteosat-8, which remains in place for emergency . Data were not made available during this drifting process. The Met Office production of the LEDF41 product switched to using Meteosat-9 from 0915 UTC on 1st June 2022. See linked dataset for the replacement dataset to continue provision of this product over this region of the globe.

The geographic extent for images within this datasets is available via the linked documentation 'MSG satellite imagery product geographic area details'. Each MSG imagery product area can be referenced from the third and fourth character of the image product name giving in the filename. E.g. for EEAO11 the corresponding geographic details can be found under the entry for area code 'AO' (i.e West Africa).

Date (Publication): 2022-06-06T10:21:30

Date (Creation): 2022-06-06T10:21:30

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/b1dacc09b42f4d8ab492c5d5c751efa9

Citation identifier: NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / b1dacc09b42f4d8ab492c5d5c751efa9

Point of contact

Organisation name	Electronic mail address	Role
Met Office	enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk	Author
EUMETSAT	unknown	Author
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis	support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis	support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
unknown	unknown	Principal investigator
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis	support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis	support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

MSG
dust
rbd
Satellites
full disc

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Restricted data: please submit an application using the REQUEST ACCESS link for access.

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/msg.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under academic use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2021-12-02T12:00:00

End date: 2022-06-01T09:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
Data are JPEG formatted images

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/b1dacc09b42f4d8ab492c5d5c751efa9	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/msg/data/hritimages/LEDF41	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Meteosat_Second_Generation/How_MSG_works	Meteosat Second Generation

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/msg/MetOffice_SatImagery_AreaCodes_CEDA_v2.pdf	MSG satellite imagery geographic area codes and bounding box information.

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://www.eumetsat.int/meteosat-9-takes-over-IODC-service	EUMETSAT page detailing changes in satellite providing Indian Ocean Data Coverage

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: Data obtained by satellite from March 2005, prepared by the Met Office and stored in the CEDA archive.

Metadata

File identifier: b1dacc09b42f4d8ab492c5d5c751efa9 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Parent identifier: Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) Geostationnary Satellites: Visible, Infra-Red and Water Vapour Images and Derived Data Products over the world
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Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2026-03-15T03:22:30

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Point of contact

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