

doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00154.1 Organization names and abbreviations Hillger, 2016: A Sight for Sore Eyes - The Return of True Color to Geostationary Satellites. Sumida, 2018: True color imagery rendering for Himawari-8 with a color reproduction approach based on the CIE XYZ color system. We would like to acknowledge them for the collaboration and their permission to use the software. The imagery was developed on the basis of collaboration between the JMA Meteorological Satellite Center and the NOAA/NESDIS/STAR GOES-R Algorithm Working Group imagery team. Software for this purpose was provided by the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) established by NOAA/NESDIS and Colorado State University in United States of America. To make the imagery more vivid, atmospheric correction (Rayleigh correction, Miller et al., 2016) is also applied to AHI Bands 1-4. (2016), the green band is optimally adjusted using Band 2, 3 and 4. In this process, as an alternative to the bi-spectral hybrid green method outlined by Miller et al. To reproduce colors as seen by the human eye, RGB signals observed by AHI are converted into CIE XYZ values and reconverted into RGB signalsįor output devices compliant with sRGB (an international standard for RGB color space) (Murata et al., 2018). The imagery consists of data from three visible bands (Band 1, 2 and 3), one near-infrared band (Band 4) and one infrared band (Band 13). True Color Reproduction (TCR) technology enables the display of earth images taken from space in a way that is familiar to the human eye. The content of 1), 2) and 3) below should also be included with any usage of such TCR imagery. ASWind (AMV-based Sea-surface Wind) for Tropical Cyclone MonitoringĪll usage of True Color Reproduction (TCR) imagery provided here is subject to the Terms of Use for the MSC/JMA website.
