Land Surface Temperature Dataset from Meteosat First and Second Generation - Edition 2 (SUMET Ed. 2)

This Climate Data Record (CDR) provides Land Surface Temperature (LST) derived from the Meteosat Visible and InfraRed Imager (MVIRI) on board the Meteosat First Generation (MFG) and the Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed Imager (SEVIRI) onboard the Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellites. The covered time period ranges from January 1983 to December 2020. Original thermal radiances were inter-calibrated by the European  Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT). The LST is derived from Meteosat by use of single-channel LST retrieval based on radiative transfer calculations. The LST is presented as hourly data and as monthly averaged diurnal cycle composites on a 0.05°x0.05° grid covering the Meteosat disk (Africa and Europe). A summary of the retrieval algorithms is provided by Duguay–Tetzlaff et al. 2015. This is a Thematic Climate Data Record (TCDR).