GSICS Coordination Center UpdateGSICS Executive Panel Meeting 12

Fuzhong Weng and Fangfang YuGSICS Coordination Center

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Outline• Staff change in GCC team

• GCC Progress Since April 2011o Support to the establishment of GSICS correction algorithm: diurnal calibration

Evaluationo GSICS Quarterlyo GCC Meeting Supporto Product Quality Assurance Activities

Update on current product status Exempt clauses Special handling request

• GCC Near-term Goals for 2012-13

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Staff Change in GCC• Dr. Robert Iacovazzi, Jr. left NOAA/NESDIS in August

2011– We greatly appreciate his many contributions to the GSICS in general and to the GCC

in particular.

• Current GCC staff:– Dr. Fuzhong Weng: Director– Dr. Fangfang Yu: Deputy Director– Dr. Haifeng Qian: Webmaster– Dr. Fred Wu: Other support

• Many thanks to the supports from GRWG, GDWG and WMO during the transition period.– Please continue!

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Data Analysis at GCC - Diurnal Calibration Variation

GOES-11 Meteosat-9

FY-2D

MTSAT-2

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GSICS Quarterly Newsletter

• All the four issue of Volume 5 in 2011 and Volume 6 No 1 in 2012 are completed– Including two special issues on the vicarious calibration of GEO solar reflected channels from CNES/EUMETSAT/JMA/KMA/NASA/NOAA

• Use the new GSICS mailing system to distribute the GQ– The GQ was sent to >190 email accounts– The online registration form is now available at the GSICS portaland GCC website– Thanks for the contributions from the authors, editors, press correspondents and GDWG chair. Special thanks to Dr. George Ohring for the careful proofreading help.

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Meeting Support• GSICS Second Users’ Workshop – September, 2011,

Olso, Norway

• GRWG 7th + GDWG 6th annual meeting – March 2012, Beijing, China

• NIST lunar calibration workshop – May 2012, Gaithersburg, MD– Reported the workshop result to GRWG thru a webmeeting

• All the web meetings hosted by EUMETSAT– Guest-chaired a webmeeting to update GPPA

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User Interaction• User’s Feedback from ISCCP

– Critical and valuable review comments from ISCCP on the GSICS product presentation formats

– GCC hosted a telecon to discuss these concerns soon after receiving the comments• EUMETSAT/JMA/NOAA/WMO attended the meeting• Consensually agreed that a central product catalog is needed to direct the users to access

products and associated documents• WMO proposed a very good demo version• GDWG later developed the central product catalog implemented GCC website and linked

to at the GSICS portal

– GCC reported the User’s feedback and GSICS community action in GRWG webmeeting and the GRWG+GDWG annual meeting.

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Absolute Calibration for MW Channels

• Action EP-3.6: GCC (F. Weng) will prepare a presentation on absolute calibration for MW channels at GRWG

– F. Weng presented the early result of NPP/ATMS absolute calibration, titled “Toward Absolute Calibration of Suomi-NPP ATMS”, at GRWG on March 25, 2012

– It is recommended that for NWP radiance assimilation, forward models need to consider the measured spectral response function.

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GCC Initial Effort on the Instrument Calibration Event Log

• GCC proposed early version of instrument calibration event log through a web meeting and email discussion

• Recent progress will be reported at #8.2 and #8.3

Instrument (monitored or

referenced)

No Start time End time Comment Type Related Information

GOES-12 Imager 1 2003/04/01 Operation started http://www.oso.noaa.gov/goesstatus/spacecraftStatusSummary.asp?spacecraft=12

GOES-12 Imager 2 03/21/2007 03/23/3007 Anti-ice Decontamination (uncompleted)

GOES-12 Imager 3 07/02/2007 07/04/2007 Anti-ice decontamination

IASI 4 07/18/2007 IASI Level 1 data operational data formally available

http://smsc.cnes.fr/IASI/GP_actualites.htm

GOES-12 Imager 5 12/15/2008 01/05/2009 Stayed as backup and decontamination

GOES-12 Imager 6 Retired from GOES-West and moved to the South American Mission

http://www.oso.noaa.gov/goesstatus/spacecraftStatusSummary.asp?spacecraft=12

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GPPA Products

• Five demo products on the way to Pre-Op phase– GPAF_GL01.1.0_EUMETSAT_SEVIRI&IASI_IR– GPAF_GL03.1.0_NOAA_GOES&IASI_IR– GPAF_GL02.1.0_JMA_MTSAT&IASI-AIRS_IR– GPAF_LL01.1.0_NOAA_MSUAMSU– GPAF_LL01.1.0_NOAA_PATMOS-x_AVHRR&MODIS

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GPPA Exempt Clauses• Exempt clauses to expedite the process from Demo to Pre-Op

– Normally, positive comments from at least two potential product users are needed. If insufficient feedback is received during one year period, GCC will make the suggestion to the EP based on the GPAT's review comments.

– In case of incomplete documentation that are not considered to jeopardize product quality by the GPAT and external users, GCC will make the suggestion to the EP based on the GPAT and users‘ feedback. However, all the required documentation should be completed and submitted for review in the pre-operational phase.

– GSICS development community will continue to pursue other avenues to identify external users and seek their feedback as an important part of the review process

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Special Case Handling Request

• Naming convention with GPAF_LL01.1.0_NOAA_MSUAMSU product• Current product is to meet the NCDC CDR requirement, i.e. a different

parameter naming convention, and operational at different server.• GDWG chair proposed to provide the link at GSICS data server to the

product website where the MSU/AMSU product is distributed.• Product in netCDF format, consistent with GSICS product format

requirement. The file name will be renamed following the GSICS filename convention to facilitate accessibility

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Near-term 2012-2013 Goals• GSICS Procedure for Product Acceptance

• Five demo products to Pre-Op phase

• Coordinationo Continue to coordinate efforts to establish the GSICS baseline algorithms, especially

those for the GEO solar reflective channels,o Continue to provide communication between the developing group and users

• GSICS Quarterlyo Continue to create and distribute this important link to the GSICS community

• Update GSICS Operations Plan• Meeting Support

o Joint Meeting, GSICS 4rd Users Workshop and GSICS Web Meetings