GOES-R Proving Ground
CIRA / RAMMB Progress Report
16 April 2010
• Proving Ground Product Status
– New ORI case
– Land Surface Temperature
– Cloud Climatology
• Interactions with WFOs
• Interactions with National Centers
• PG Systems Status
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Revised ORI Product Description
• The ORI Product Description was revised.
Goal: to make it a better training tool
Includes now a very detailed example using
AWIPS screen captures for a recent ORI
event in the Seattle WFO area.
Other good case studies will be added over
time
New product description will be posted on-line
by the end of April 2010
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ORI Example
date: 14 February 2010
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ORI Example
date: 14 February 2010
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Land Surface Temperature Product
• CIRA will be the NESDIS/StAR <-> WFO liaison
for this product and will
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Implement official LST Option 1 product AWG algorithm
Generate real-time LST AWIPS products
Distribute the LST product to Regional Headquarters
Support WFOs with installing LST onto their AWIPS
systems
 Collect LST feedback from NWS forecasters
• Latest Status:
 Received Bob Yu’s (NESDIS/StAR) code of his AWG
Land Surface Temperature (LST) product and compiled it
successfully at CIRA.
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CIRA PG Cloud Climatology Product
 Mel Nordquist (EKA SOO) has approved Deb Molenar’s process
for use of the EKA climatologies within AWIPS D2D & GFE.
 Cindy Combs’ fog/stratus regime cloud climatology datasets will
be converted into the AWIPS format by the end of April (EKA can
utilize by summer 2010).
 Deb Molenar will work with Mel Nordquist and his Aviation Focal
Point to design & develop the AWIPS menus for organization
& use of the cloud climatology data.
 Mel Nordquist is going to check with his AWIPS Focal Point and
ITO to determine the AWIPS Configuration Management
restrictions.
 Becca Mazur (CYS SOO) and Mel Nordquist will develop training
materials to help the forecasters use the data.
 Once everything is working at EKA, we'll repeat the process with
the wind regime climatologies at CYS.
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WFO Interaction with CIRA
• Omaha WFO is now ingesting our GeoColor and Low
cloud/fog layer products, similar to CYS and BOU.
• Eureka WFO now has ORI, will be working towards
getting our GeoColor and Low cloud/fog layer products
in the next months.
• Los Angeles WFO agreed to get the ORI and GeoColor
and Low cloud/fog layer products.
• Monterey WFO on hold, awaiting new instructions on
how to configure their AWIPS.
• Davenport (Iowa) WFO agreed to get the GeoColor and
Low cloud/fog layer products. GOES-East LCFOG &
GeoColor are being sent to the CRH server.
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New WFO Interactions
Buffalo WFO:
• interested in all PG products
• especially MODIS imagery for lake ice breakup
• Eastern Region Headquarters is reviewing the request to get our
products
Portland WFO:
• interested in ORI, Low Cloud/Fog and GeoColor product
• delay - WFO currently going through lab floor replacement
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Interaction with SPC
• Hail Probability Product
– Adapted to now predict the probability of hail >= 1 inch diameter
– Forecast extended to the 0-3-hour timeframe
– Data currently streaming to the SPC and is displaying on their
NAWIPS system
– Present work includes a 3-6-hour forecast and a probability of
>= 2 inch hail, as suggested by the SPC
• Simulated ABI Data from WRF Output
– Work is nearly complete in generating synthetic ABI radiances
from the daily output of the WRF-ARW 4-km model run at SPC
– Data will be displayed in NAWIPS for evaluation during the
Spring Program
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Interaction with NHC
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NHC Proving Ground Operations Plan
• Participants in NHC Proving Ground
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Product Providers: CIMSS and CIRA
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Consumer: NHC
• Dates
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August 1st through November 30th, 2010
• Products
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Official GOES-R Baseline Product
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Hurricane Intensity Estimate HIE (CIMSS web-based product)
Decision Aid Products
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Red-Blue-Green (RGB) air mass product (CIRA Google Earth)
RGB aerosol/dust Product (CIRA Google Earth)
Saharan air layer product (CIMSS Google Earth)
Super rapid scan imagery ( NHC direct ingest / CIRA archive)
Lightning-based rapid intensity index (CIRA ftp of test product
(based on free Vaisala lightning dataset)
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New CIRA “Stars”
Request to update
“Proving Ground Interaction Star Map”
WFOs
Boulder (BOU) and Cheyenne (CYS)
National Centers
Omaha, NE  OAX
CRHQ
Davenport, IA  DVN
WRHQ
Eureka, CA  EKA
Monterey, CA  MTR
Los Angeles, CA  LOX
Portland, OR  PQR
ARHQ
SPC
NHC
Grand Junction, CO  GJT
Buffalo, NY  BUF
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Systems Progress
 Telecons: AWIPS II and Cooperative Institutes/GOES-R Proving
Ground Partners- ongoing and very helpful!!!
 AWIPS II configuration underway on old spec hardware; hardware
configured to new specs has been ordered.
 Still unsure if 24 bit displays will be possible.
 Concerns for data ingest method; sounds like PG products will be
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competing with operational products for bandwidth?
 Efforts are underway to determine best ‘plug-in’ mechanism to
develop for GeoColor data.
 Google Earth capabilities developed for NHC offer an interim
method for presenting the data at full spatial and color resolution.
 Development of “Proving Ground Products Online” (similar to
RAMSDIS Online) is underway.
 Offers real-time snapshots of existing PG products on the web
 Very useful for data review and training for those without an AWIPS
at their desk.
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Systems Progress (cont)
Proving Ground Products Online snapshot
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