The GOES-R Proving Ground: Accelerating User Readiness for the Next-Generation Geostationary Environmental Satellite System

Is Tropical Cyclone Intensity Guidance Improving?

“…For example, the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) observations are now available from the recently launched Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) satellite. In addition, the Advanced Baseline Imagery (ABI) and Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) on the next-generation NOAA geostationary satellite system will become available within the next few years (Goodman et al 2012). In addition to providing better spatial, spectral, and radiometric resolution, the GLM on Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R (GOES-R) and S-NPP day/night band (Miller et al 2012) provide new capabilities that can be exploited to improve TC prediction.…”

Observations depuis l'orbite géostationnaire avec Meteosat troisième génération (MTG)

“…Meteosat-7, le dernier satellite de première génération, est encore utilisé au-dessus de l'océan Indien et va être retiré du service en avril 2017. L'ère de Meteosat seconde génération (Ratier et al, 2003 ;Schmetz et al, 2002) (Schmit et al, 2008 ;Goodman et al, 2012) par la Noaa 4 côté américain. AHI et ABI sont ainsi les premiers instruments de la nouvelle génération d'imageurs géostationnaires avec 16 canaux, un balayage plein disque toutes les 10 minutes et des capacités supplémentaires de balayage rapide sur un domaine régional (Line et al, 2016).…”

The Emergence of Weather-Related Testbeds Linking Research and Forecasting Operations

“…CTB will work directly with the RISA and Regional Climate Centers to improve NCEP's regional climate services. (Goodman et al 2012). The origin of the GOES-R Proving Ground was a recommendation from the third GOES Users Conference in 2004 (DOC/NOAA/ NESDIS 2004) to bridge the gap between research and operations by engaging the NWS forecast, watch, and warning community and other-agency users in preoperational demonstrations of the new and advanced capabilities to be available from GOES-R compared to the current GOES constellation.…”

“…These new or enhanced product capabilities will be made possible by the ABI, a 16-channel imager with two visible channels, 4 near-infrared channels, and 10 infrared channels that will provide three times more spectral information, four times the spatial coverage, and an increase in temporal resolution that is more than five times the current imager (Schmit et al 2005). Other advancements over current GOES capabilities include total lightning detection and mapping of in-cloud and cloud-to-ground f lashes never before available to forecasters from the GLM (Goodman et al 2013) and increased dynamic range, resolution, and sensitivity in monitoring solar X-ray f lux with the Solar UV Imager.…”