NESDIS POLAR DATA EXPLOITATION

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NESDIS POLAR DATA EXPLOITATION

• Gene Legg
• Office of Satellite Data Processing and
  Distribution
• January 16, 2007

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NESDIS Polar Data Exploitation

• NOAA Central Implementation Manager
• Physical Scientist in the NOAA/NESDIS Office of
  Satellite Data Processing  and Distribution
  (OSDPD)
• Responsible for identifying, coordinating and
  implementing data from non-NOAA satellite
  missions into NOAA operational systems
• Interested in data/missions which will meet NOAA
  requirements, and provide risk reduction for
  future NOAA sensors
• Staff Meteorologist for the Satellite Services
  Division (SSD)
• Responsible for GOES Scheduling
• Back-up "on-air" Meteorologist for the PBS daily
  TV program "AM Weather
• Shift meteorologist in the Satellite Analysis
  Branch of SSD
• Meteorologist, National Weather Service (NWS)
  Techniques Development Laboratory
• B.S. Climatology, University of Maryland

Gene Legg NOAA Central Implementation Manager
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NESDIS POLAR DATA EXPLOITATION

• Gene Legg
• Office of Satellite Data Processing and
  Distribution
• January 16, 2007

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Agenda

• NOAAs Role
• NOAAs Customers
• Current Applications for Polar VIS/IR Data
• METOP Products
• Operational Product Examples
• Summary

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NOAAs Operational Roles

• Manage and direct the operation of the central
  ground facilities that ingest, process, and
  distribute environmental satellite data and
  derived products to domestic and foreign users.
• Develop and improve numerical weather, climate,
  hydrological and oceanic predictions through
  programs of applied research in data analysis,
  modeling and product development in partnership
  with the broader research community.
• Serve as the primary operating level interface
  with civil sector users of data from operational
  environmental satellites.
• Provide interpretive and consultative services to
  those users and be responsible for the
  transmission of data products to remote receiving
  stations.
• Provide for the collection of environmental data
  from remote platforms using NOAA satellites.

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POES Products
http//satprod.osd.noaa.gov/

• Global environmental monitoring for input to
  numerical weather forecasts
• visible/IR cloud, aerosol, and snow images
• vertical temperature and moisture soundings
• Global ocean monitoring
• multi-channel sea surface temperatures
• ice analysis
• Global land applications
• normalized data vegetation index
• smoke, fire, and volcanic ash observations

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Major Customers

• Numerical Weather Prediction Centers
• Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation
  (NCEP, NASA, DoD)
• ECMWF, UK Met Office, Meteo France, Japanese Met.
  Service
• Operational Weather Centers (Centrals)
• AFWA, FNMOC, NAVOCEANO
• NWS Advanced Weather Interactive Processing
  System (AWIPS)
• NOAA Coast Watch and Ocean Watch
• Hazard community (US Forest Service)
• US Department of Agriculture
• Federal Aviation Administration (Volcanic Ash)
• EUMETSAT (METOP/IJPS)

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Information Flow
ENVIRONMENTAL DATA SEARCH RESCUE SOLAR
MONITORING TEMPMOISTURE SNDGS ENVIRONMENTAL
DATA SHARED PROCESSING
ARGOS/DCS SEARCH RESCUE SEM AMSU SSM/I, SSM/T,
T-2 Selected data/products
USGPC USMCC SEC/NGDC U.K. NOAA DOD
POES 5.2GB
S A T E L L I T E D A T A P R O C E S S I N G
S Y S T E M
FORECAST GUIDANCE
WEFAX
GOES BROADCAST
OZONE SST SOUNDING CLOUD WINDS
GOES 35.2GB
NCEP, NASA NCEP MODEL, GTS NCEP MODEL, GTS NCEP
MODEL, GTS
RESEARCH FORECAST GUIDANCE FORECAST
GUIDANCE FORECAST GUIDANCE
FORECAST GUIDANCE AREA MONITORING, SPECIAL
EVENTS
NOAAPORT SPECIAL
AWIPS, INTERNET INTERNET
DMSP 7.6GB
GOES SOUNDINGS MOISTURE ANALYSIS CLOUD TOP
TEMPS GLOBAL WINDS RAINFALL EST SNOW WILDFIRES VOL
CANO SEA ICE
NCEP NCEP NCEP NCEP NCEP SAB, NCEP SAB,NIFC,
USFS,NWS SAB, FAA, ICO, ICAO, NWS NIC, USCG,
NAVY, NWS
FORECAST GUIDANCE FORECAST GUIDANCE FORECAST
GUIDANCE FORECAST GUIDANCE FORECAST
GUIDANCE FORECAST GUIDANCE FORECAST
GUIDANCE FORECAST GUIDANCE, FORECAST GUIDANCE,
OPERATIONAL PLANNING
NON-NOAA 80.57GB
LEVEL 1B POLAR SYNOPTIC GOES GOES EVENT GOES
CONUS PRODUCT FILES
CLASS CLASS CLASS CLASS CLASS
USER ACCESS USER ACCESS USER ACCESS USER
ACCESS USER ACCESS
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METOP Products

• NOAA receives both raw and Level 1B data from
  EUMETSAT
• All NOAA (POES) processing systems have been
  modified to accept data from METOP
• Specific additions to POES product systems
• ASCAT surface wind vectors, similar to QuikSCAT
• IASI atmospheric soundings, similar to AIRS
• Ozone products from GOME

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NPP Data Exploitation
Assist NOAA and other civilian customers to
realize the full potential of NPOESS observations
http//projects.osd.noaa.gov/nde/

• Tasks
• Coordinate NPOESS data utilization activities
  across NOAA
• Disseminate NPOESS Data Records (xDRs)
• Provide NPOESS xDR format conversion software
• Generate and disseminate tailored xDRs (versions
  of the xDRs in alternative formats and views)
• Generate and disseminate NOAA-unique products
  (augmented environmental products constructed
  from NPOESS xDRs)
• Deliver NOAA-unique products to NOAA Long Term
  Archive (CLASS)
• Provide services to customers, including a Help
  Desk, NDE product training, support for product
  enhancement requests

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NOAA Satellite Operations Facility(NSOF)

• Located at the Suitland Federal Center, Maryland
• Houses the Environmental Satellite Processing
  Center (ESPC)
• ESPC Occupancy November-December 2006
• Operational Transition ongoing until Spring 2007

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Operational Product Examples

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CoastWatch/OceanWatch Products
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CoastWatch/OceanWatch Products
MODIS Ocean Color
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CoastWatch/OceanWatch Products
GOES SST
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Gulf Stream Prediction at NCEP using
Ocean Color
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Example of Global Distribution of Thinned
Radiances
Cloud-contaminated
Cloud-Cleared
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AIRS Granule (Radiances)
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• Derived Real-time Green Vegetation Faction
  Derived
• from AVHRR Vegetation Index (Prepared for NCEP)
• Initial conditions for NWP and Climate models
• Surface emission models in JCSDA radiative
  transfer codes

Week 32, 2000 (Aug. 13)
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Drought/Vegetation Health
Time Series of US and State Drought-afflicted Area
Percent of area under stress
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Snow Cover
Validation
Operational daily product
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Northern Hemisphere Ice Cover
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Southern Hemisphere Ice Cover
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Hazard Support Products
Smoke
Floods
Volcanic Ash Advisory Center
Fire
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Alaskan Forest Fires, July 2004
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Hazard Support ProductsHarmful Alga Blooms
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Experimental Gulf of Mexico HAB Bulletin 10 18
October 2000 NOS/NCCOS NOS/CSC NESDIS/CoastWatch L
ast Bulletin 13 October 2000
Insert SeaWiFS image here (at 30)
Analysis
SW Florida The chlorophyll off Sanibel has
intensified and moved slightly southward away
from Sanibel. This bloom has extremely high
chlorophyll concentrations and warrants
examination. The wind shifting to the NW may be
a concern if it is G. breve. Chlorophyll
concentrations over 10 mg/l occur from 26d5'N to
26d15'N, and from a few miles offshore to over
82W. NW Florida Chlorophyll has dropped near
the shore. Complex patterns have developed
offshore with 0.7 mg/L moved westward at 20
miles offshore. Texas Clouds have persisted
along the coast near Padre Island, preventing
examination of field-reported bloom. Chlorophyll
is at background near Galveston Bay.
Wind speed and direction are averaged over twelve
hours from measurements made on NOAA buoys.
Length of line indicates speed angle indicates
direction. Red vectors indicate that wind
direction favors upwelling near the coast.
Venice, FL
Oct 1
Oct 6
Oct 11
Oct 16
Cape San Blas, FL
Please note the following restrictions on all
SeaWiFS imagery derived from CoastWatch 1.
These data are restricted to civil marine
applications only i.e. federal, state, and local
government use/distribution is permitted. 2.
Distribution for military, international, or
commercial purposes is NOT permitted 3. There
are restrictions on Internet/Web/public posting
of these data. 4. These image products may be
published in newspapers (any other publishing
arrange-ments must receive OrbImage approval via
the CoastWatch Program).
Oct 1
Oct 6
Oct 11
Oct 16
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Harmful Algal Bloom Detection
90 Day Running Average
Ocean Color Image
Anomaly Image
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New Jersey BloomAugust 2001
August 22
August 15
August 16
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Monitoring Tropical Storms Using Microwave
Soundings
KYLE CONTINUES TO BECOME BETTER ORGANIZED THIS
MORNING...WITH CONVECTIVE BANDING INCREASING JUST
EAST OF THE CENTER AND THE FIRST INDICATIONS OF A
DEVELOPING CENTRAL DENSE OVERCAST. THE
SYSTEM CONTINUES TO DEVELOP ANTICYCLONIC OUTFLOW
AT UPPER LEVELS...AND THE AMSU INSTRUMENTS ON THE
NOAA POLAR ORBITING SATELLITES ARE
lt STARTING TO DETECT AN UPPER-LEVEL WARM
CORE. HOWEVER...THE CENTER IS NOT YET INVOLVED
ENOUGH WITH THE CONVECTION TO CALL THE
SYSTEM FULLY TROPICAL. THE INITIAL INTENSITY OF
40 KT IS BASED ON SUBTROPICAL INTENSITY ESTIMATES
OF 45-50 KT FROM TAFB AND 35-40 KT FROM
AFWA...ALONG WITH A 35 KT TROPICAL INTENSITY
ESTIMATE FROM SAB.
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Monitoring Tropical Storms Using Imagery
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High Resolution QuikSCAT Winds (12.5km)
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QuikSCAT V-Pol NRCS May 29 2001
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Microwave (AMSR-E) Products
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Ozone Analysis
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Microwave Products
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Microwave Products
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Summary

• NOAA manages the operation of geostationary
  (GOES) and polar orbiting (POES) operational
  satellites. NOAA also is a partner with EUMETSAT
  for METOP operations.
• NOAA process environmental data from GOES, POES,
  and METOP in near real time, and provides these
  products from the ESPC Data Delivery System
  (DDS). In addition, NOAA provides products from
  non-NOAA missions DMSP EOS ERS WindSAT.
• NOAA is the only non-commercial source of
  environmental data dedicated to serving civilian
  customers.
• NOAA serves environmental data to a diverse
  global customer base.
• NOAA maintains an extensive archive of data and
  products in its Comprehensive Large Array Data
  Storage System (CLASS)