{"id":909,"date":"2015-01-19T09:17:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T09:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wmo-sat.info\/satellite-user-readiness\/?p=909"},"modified":"2025-09-17T11:03:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T11:03:28","slug":"mtg-data-formats-and-volumes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wmo-sat.info\/satellite-user-readiness\/mtg-data-formats-and-volumes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MTG Data Formats and Volumes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NetCDF-4 is the baseline format for the FCI, LI and IRS instrument dataset generation. NetCDF-4 offers a number of advantageous features, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ability to cope with large dataset sizes \u2014 ~7 Gbytes for Full Disc archived dataset for MTG compared to the current ~220 Mbytes.<\/li>\n<li>Datasets are self describing.<\/li>\n<li>Groups allow potential for easier subsetting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>BUFR, GRIB and other formats will be used where there is already a product delivered in that particular format. See the <a href=\"https:\/\/user.eumetsat.int\/resources\/user-guides\/formats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Formats user guide<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n<p>When available, further information is added to the <a href=\"https:\/\/user.eumetsat.int\/data\/satellites\/meteosat-third-generation\/resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Meteosat Third Generation resources section<\/a> in the EUMETSAT User Portal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NetCDF-4 is the baseline format for the FCI, LI and IRS instrument dataset generation. NetCDF-4 offers a number of advantageous features, including: Ability to cope with large dataset sizes \u2014 ~7 Gbytes for Full Disc archived dataset for MTG compared to the current ~220 Mbytes. Datasets are self describing. Groups allow potential for easier subsetting. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,43,24,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wmo-sat.info\/satellite-user-readiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wmo-sat.info\/satellite-user-readiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wmo-sat.info\/satellite-user-readiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmo-sat.info\/satellite-user-readiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmo-sat.info\/satellite-user-readiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmo-sat.info\/satellite-user-readiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmo-sat.info\/satellite-user-readiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/2000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wmo-sat.info\/satellite-user-readiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmo-sat.info\/satellite-user-readiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmo-sat.info\/satellite-user-readiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}