GOES-R Proving Ground CIRA / RAMMB Progress Report 16 April 2010

1. GOES-R Proving Ground CIRA / RAMMB Progress Report16 April 2010 • Proving Ground Product Status • New ORI case • Land Surface Temperature • Cloud Climatology • Interactions with WFOs • Interactions with National Centers • PG Systems Status 1

2. Revised ORI Product Description • The ORI Product Description was revised. • Goal: to make it a better training tool • Includes now a very detailed example using AWIPS screen captures for a recent ORI event in the Seattle WFO area. • Other good case studies will be added over time • New product description will be posted on-line by the end of April 2010

3. ORI Exampledate: 14 February 2010

4. ORI Exampledate: 14 February 2010

5. Land Surface Temperature Product CIRA will be the NESDIS/StAR <-> WFO liaison for this product and will Implement official LST Option 1 product AWG algorithm Generate real-time LST AWIPS products Distribute the LST product to Regional Headquarters Support WFOs with installing LST onto their AWIPS systems Collect LST feedback from NWS forecasters Latest Status: Received Bob Yu’s (NESDIS/StAR) code of his AWG Land Surface Temperature (LST) product and compiled it successfully at CIRA. 5

6. CIRA PG Cloud Climatology Product • Mel Nordquist (EKA SOO) has approved Deb Molenar’s process for use of the EKA climatologies within AWIPS D2D & GFE.  • Cindy Combs’ fog/stratus regime cloud climatology datasets will be converted into the AWIPS format by the end of April (EKA can utilize by summer 2010).  • Deb Molenar will work with Mel Nordquist and his Aviation Focal Point to design & develop the AWIPS menus for organization & use of the cloud climatology data.  • Mel Nordquist is going to check with his AWIPS Focal Point and ITO to determine the AWIPS Configuration Management restrictions. • Becca Mazur (CYS SOO) and Mel Nordquist will develop training materials to help the forecasters use the data. • Once everything is working at EKA, we'll repeat the process with the wind regime climatologies at CYS.

8. WFO Interaction with CIRA • Omaha WFO is now ingesting our GeoColor and Low cloud/fog layer products, similar to CYS and BOU. • Eureka WFO now has ORI, will be working towards getting our GeoColor and Low cloud/fog layer products in the next months. • Los Angeles WFO agreed to get the ORI and GeoColor and Low cloud/fog layer products. • Monterey WFO on hold, awaiting new instructions on how to configure their AWIPS. • Davenport (Iowa) WFO agreed to get the GeoColor and Low cloud/fog layer products. GOES-East LCFOG & GeoColor are being sent to the CRH server.

9. New WFO Interactions Buffalo WFO: • interested in all PG products • especially MODIS imagery for lake ice breakup • Eastern Region Headquarters is reviewing the request to get our products Portland WFO:  • interested in ORI, Low Cloud/Fog and GeoColor product • delay - WFO currently going through lab floor replacement

10. Interaction with SPC Hail Probability Product Adapted to now predict the probability of hail >= 1 inch diameter Forecast extended to the 0-3-hour timeframe Data currently streaming to the SPC and is displaying on their NAWIPS system Present work includes a 3-6-hour forecast and a probability of >= 2 inch hail, as suggested by the SPC Simulated ABI Data from WRF Output Work is nearly complete in generating synthetic ABI radiances from the daily output of the WRF-ARW 4-km model run at SPC Data will be displayed in NAWIPS for evaluation during the Spring Program 10

11. Interaction with NHC

12. NHC Proving Ground Operations Plan • Participants in NHC Proving Ground • Product Providers: CIMSS and CIRA • Consumer: NHC • Dates • August 1st through November 30th, 2010 • Products • Official GOES-R Baseline Product • Hurricane Intensity Estimate HIE (CIMSS web-based product) • Decision Aid Products • Red-Blue-Green (RGB) air mass product (CIRA Google Earth) • RGB aerosol/dust Product (CIRA Google Earth) • Saharan air layer product (CIMSS Google Earth) • Super rapid scan imagery ( NHC direct ingest / CIRA archive) • Lightning-based rapid intensity index (CIRA ftp of test product (based on free Vaisala lightning dataset)

13. WFOs Boulder (BOU) and Cheyenne (CYS) Omaha, NE  OAX Davenport, IA  DVN Eureka, CA  EKA Monterey, CA  MTR Los Angeles, CA  LOX Portland, OR  PQR Grand Junction, CO  GJT Buffalo, NY  BUF National Centers CRHQ WRHQ ARHQ SPC NHC New CIRA “Stars”Request to update “Proving Ground Interaction Star Map” 13

14. Systems Progress • Telecons: AWIPS II and Cooperative Institutes/GOES-R Proving Ground Partners- ongoing and very helpful!!! • AWIPS II configuration underway on old spec hardware; hardware configured to new specs has been ordered. • Still unsure if 24 bit displays will be possible. • Concerns for data ingest method; sounds like PG products will be competing with operational products for bandwidth? • Efforts are underway to determine best ‘plug-in’ mechanism to develop for GeoColor data. • Google Earth capabilities developed for NHC offer an interim method for presenting the data at full spatial and color resolution. • Development of “Proving Ground Products Online” (similar to RAMSDIS Online) is underway. • Offers real-time snapshots of existing PG products on the web • Very useful for data review and training for those without an AWIPS at their desk. . 14 14

15. Systems Progress (cont)Proving Ground Products Online snapshot