User Readiness Issues for GOES-R

Jim Gurka

Tim Schmit

(NOAA/ NESDIS)

Tony Mostek

(NOAA/NWS)

Dick Reynolds

(Short and Associates)

4th GOES Users’ Conference

May 3, 2006 Broomfield CO

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Education and Training :

– Primary Goal: Ensure that all data are fully utilized immediately following start of operations

• Major training venues:Schools, universities, workshops, conferences, online;

• Training must be tailored to meet unique user needs:- NWS forecasters- FAA meteorologists - Coastal service centers- Broadcast meteorologists- University faculty- Commercial and industry- International- Climatologists- Numerical modelers (weather, climate, air quality, oceans)

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Decision Aids:

– Needed to focus user attention• Cannot possibly look at all GOES-R data• Examples from WSR-88D include TVS and VIL

– Possible GOES-R Decision Aids:• Rapid de-stabilization indicated on HES Sounder

products• ABI cloud patterns or HES moisture profiles markedly

different from NWP• Satellite derived winds markedly different from NWP• Alert for fog/ low cloud formation• Enhanced V detection• GLM indication increasing lightning flash rate• Alert for red tide on HES coastal waters imagery

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Proving Ground Concept for GOES-R:

– Fund 1 extra person at 3 NWS forecast offices• FY 08 – Fy 16

• Test and apply algorithms for hyperspectral polar data;

- CrIS; AIRS; IASI; Simulated GOES-R;• Use available Geo satellites for temporal

resolution; • Test decision aid tools in operational setting;

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Algorithm Development:

– Reduced risk through development of the Algorithm Working

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5th GOES-R Users’ Conference5th GOES-R Users’ Conference

New Orleans, Louisiana January 9th – 11th, 2008

Held in conjunction with the 88th AMS (American Meteorological Society) Annual Meeting

Supports AMS Meeting Theme:

Enhancing the Connectivity between Research and Operations for the Benefit of Society

88th Annual AMS MeetingNew Orleans Convention Center

New Orleans, LAJanuary 6-11, 2008

Bringing Environmental Benefits to a Society of Users