CIRA's NOAA and NWS Proving Ground Products for
GOES-16/17 (235)
Ed Szoke, CIRA
& NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO
Dan Bikos, CIRA
Bernie Connell, CIRA
Renate Brummer, CIRA
Hiro Gosden, CIRA
Abstract:
NOTE: poster listed in
preference but talk is okay as well
The GOES-16 (and soon
GOES-17) era has brought a wealth of new satellite data to NWS and NOAA
National Center forecasters with many new channels and a number of baseline and
other (RGB) products. Most of the baseline products are now operational and
forecasters continue to learn how best to use all the new data. However, even
as this happens developers have improvements that could be made to existing
products as well as additional products that might prove valuable to
operational forecasters. Demonstrating these new products is a continuing goal
of the GOES-R Proving Ground, an ongoing effort that CIRA (the Cooperative
Institute for Research in the Atmosphere) has been an active participant in
since 2008, along with Proving Ground partners NASA SPoRT and CIMSS. Active
Proving Ground efforts had a bit of a hiatus during the past year as GOES-16
imagery and baseline products were introduced to forecasters, but now that most
AWIPS-II and other issues associated with the new data have been resolved, it
will be once again possible to demonstrate potential new products through the
GOES-R Proving Ground. CIRA has been active in this regard with products
demonstrated at many NWS WFOs as well as National Centers. A big advantage of
demonstrating new products now that GOES-16 is operational is that the products
will be able to use the new satellite data, enabling them to be presented with
much higher time and(/or) space resolution than had typically been possible
before, when MODIS or synthetic imagery was often used. In this presentation we
will discuss the products that CIRA is currently demonstrating as well as
potential future products that will soon be available for testing. We will show
examples of the products and describe how interested WFOs can get these
products on their AWIPS-II systems for testing.