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NESDIS WG/CSAB UpdateSpring 2009

Vincent TaborOSDPD

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Overview

• Operational Constellation Updates – GOES and POES

• Additional satellite activities

• New Products Transitioned

• ESPC Updates

• CIP Update

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Operational GOES Updates

NESDIS Reorganization

Satellite Status

Critical Infrastructure Protection Status

GOES/POES Consolidation

New Products

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Operational GOES Updates

• GOES-12 Operational East– Occasional thruster anomalies, occurring just

after eclipse.– Imager decontamination performed during

Dec/Jan thruster anomaly.– On-board fuel remaining to support mission

until end of CY09.

• GOES-11 Operational West– Engineers report better than expected battery

recovery, no services shed from GOES-11 during Spring 09 eclipse.

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Operational POES Updates

• Operational Constellation Updates – GOES and POES

• Additional satellite activities

• New Products Transitioned

• Satellite Products in AWIPS Update

• ESPC Updates

• CIP Update

• User Services – Help Desk Update

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Operational POES Updates

• MetOp-2 Operational AM– AMSU-A channel 7 noise continues to exceed specs.

• Operational ATOVS adjusted to use other channels (1/28/09).

– ASCAT vector files operationally produced sent to FNMOC (10/22/08).

• NOAA-18 Operational PM– HIRS noise continues, ATOVS operating in a “No-

HIRS” mode.

• NOAA began the delivery of NOAA POES SBUV Ozone Profiles to FNMOC on April 13

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Additional Satellite Activities

• GOES-10 “Pre” Operational as GOES-South America– Sounder filter wheel stalled on 2/8/09. Sounder has been unable

to recover since, imager ok.– GOES-10 slated to be de-orbited in December 2009.

• GOES-13 as Backup– SMG and NESDIS request to keep GOES-13 imaging/soundings

until 4/15/09.

• GOES-O launch set no earlier than May 12 (was schedule for 4/28/09)– Change of band 6 (13.3 m) to 4 km.– Post launch activities scheduled to begin September 09.– PLT schedule (tentative) at:

http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/projects/goes-o/

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Additional Satellite Activities

• Jason-2 Transition– ESPC began delivery of Jason-2 data to

NAVO 10/06/08.– ESPC made Jason-2 available to general

users on 12/15/08.– SPSRB briefing to go operational on 3/18/09

for the nrt OGDRs.– ESPC working with NCEP on the OGDR-

BUFR (M. Mainelli).– OSDPD Web site updated with

documentation:• http://

www.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/ocean/ssheight.html

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Additional Satellite Activities

• Near real-time MODIS Processing System– The porting of the near real-time MODIS science

algorithms from the old production servers NASA/GSFC to the NSOF Linux cluster was completed per the March 31, 2009 milestone

– MODIS now being processed completely out of ESPC at NSOF

– Distribution server is being upgraded at GSFC for delivery of products from NSOF for GSFC and DoD customers

– Testing of distribution of MODIS products from DAPE Gateway (formerly Shared Processing Program Gateway) to AFWA commenced on April 8.

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Additional Satellite Activities

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Ascending image with correction applied

NOAA-19 AVHRR possible

attitude/mounting error (yaw=0.11deg.

and roll=0.1 deg)

Ascending image with no correction

Ascending image with correction applied

NOAA-19 AVHRR possible

attitude/mounting error (yaw=0.11deg.

and roll=0.1 deg)

West side of track East side of track

West side of track East side of track

Additional Satellite Activities

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NOAA-19 Update•NOAA-19 successfully launched 2/6/09•Product processing problems

+VIS channels on with no IR channels caused IR calibration flags to be set.+Some product VIS channel processing failed.

•NESDIS began delivery of NOAA-19 AMSU-A, HIRS and MHS 1B data to FNMOC on March 10•NOAA-17 LACs will be discontinued in favor ofNOAA-19 LAC scheduling on 3/31/09.•NOAA-19 test LACs began 3/10/09.•AVHRR 3A/3B switching initiated 3/19/09 1458Z.

Additional Satellite Activities

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NOAA-19 Operations Transition/Support•Svalbard (SV) Blind Orbit Support – improved data timeliness:

+Current SV operations supports: --MetOp mission.--Primary afternoon satellite – BO GAC only - currently NOAA-18.--NOAA-19 on best effort basis.

+Switch to NOAA-19 operations SV BO support – date TBC (Launch + 90 days):

--Primary afternoon satellite – BO GAC only - NOAA-19.--NOAA-18 on best effort basis.

•NESDIS began treating NOAA-19 Level 1B as operational on 4/12/09•Most other product schedule to go operational May 7 but actual date will be determined after POES Constellation Meeting on April 16.

New Products Transitioned

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November 08:Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Polar Winds Products: •AVHRR Polar Winds use NOAA-15, 16, 17 and 18 GAC data to generate cloud track atmospheric wind vectors. •The product is provided in BUFR, McIDAS MD and TEXT format.

New Products Transitioned

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January 09:GOES Surface and Insolation Product full disk (GSIP-fd) Product:

•The GSIP-fd is a high spatial resolution solar radiation product to be used in models for predicting coral bleaching and the hydrological cycle.•Improvements:

+Increases spatial resolution to 1/8 x 1/8 degrees. +Expands spatial coverage of oceanic regions. +Thoroughly evaluates insolation over both ocean and land.+Implements semi-automatic quality control of inputs, periodic calibration updates and quality-check of insolation output. +Provide data needed for validation and forcing of NWP surface physics.

New Product Transitioned

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January 09:•Chesapeake Bay Regional Chlorophyll-a Product

+The MODIS/Aqua-derived Chesapeake Bay chlorophyll products are generated using a regionally-tuned algorithm and applying near-real-time model fields instead of climatology for atmospheric correction.

•MERIS Ocean Color Product+The European Space Agency agreed to allow CoastWatch to distribute MERIS/Envisat-derived ocean color products operationally.

New Products Transitioned

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February 09:

Blended TPW Products•The blended TPW products system merges the operational available TPW products from multi-sensors, including DMSP F-13 SSM/I , NOAA-15, 16, 17,18 and MetOp-A AMSU-A over ocean, and GPS and GOES Sounder over land areas in the Western Hemisphere, to provide a unified TPW and TPW anomaly product every hour - http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/bTPW/

•Provided in HDF-EOS, McIDAS and AWIPS formats.

New Products Transition

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February 09:MTSAT-1R Winds +MTSAT-1R Winds use MTSAT-1R HRIT data to generate LWIR, Water Vapor, SWIR and Visible atmospheric wind vectors.+MTSAT-1R Winds product covers the Western Pacific and extends beyond coverage offered by operational GOES-W Winds product. +Provided in BUFR, McIDAS MD and TEXT format.

DAPE Gateway and Help Desk Update

• DAPE Gateway Update:– The DAPE Gateway Upgrade is schedule to be

completed late April/ early May– New Gateway will provide more horsepower for

transfers• User Notifications:

– Procedures updated to allow for consistent notifications on any outages, anomalies, or other events affecting flow of products to users

– New templates generated– Work to be completed Q2/2009 to have all notices

sent out to NWSTG/AWIPS using the NESDIS admin messages (NOUS72 KNES, NOUS71 KNES or xxxADMNES and xxxADANES)

CIP Update

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Phase 1.5:+Issue with blind GACs from NOAA-18 was resolved and new

test was performed with success 12/15 to 1/13.Phase 2:

+Readiness review 4/3.+IT testing scheduled for 3/30 – 4/2.+Application testing scheduled for 4/6 – 5/6.+User testing scheduled for 5/15 – 5/28.

Phase 3:+Products currently being reviewed and validated.

ESPC CIP Phase 2 Status

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•All Phase 2 equipment delivered & installed at Wallops Island, VA.•Family of Service (FOS), MSG, and MTSAT data feeds installed; amplification device required to increase MTSAT signal strength.•Additional 7 Terrabyte Storage Area Network (SAN) successfully install & tested despite numerous erroneous shipments from the vendor.•Infrastructure testing began on March 30, 2009 & was finished on April 2, 2009. Objectives included:+Validate operational functions of CIP’s system that provides the base computational platform for the CIP applications.+Validate network infrastructure.+Test the lower-level application services e.g. OPUS (job scheduler & monitor) & the data Distribution Server (DDS).

NSOF – CIP INFRASTRUCURE

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