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Alaska Region Satellite Products and Data Needs −or− “Where We Are Going”

Alaska Region Satellite Products and Data Needs −or− “Where We Are Going”. Eric Stevens UAF/GINA. Outline. Improvements to infrastructure Increase interaction with NWS Improvements to existing products New products The High Latitude Proving Ground…and beyond!.

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Alaska Region Satellite Products and Data Needs −or− “Where We Are Going”

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  1. Alaska Region Satellite Products and Data Needs−or−“Where We Are Going” Eric Stevens UAF/GINA

  2. Outline • Improvements to infrastructure • Increase interaction with NWS • Improvements to existing products • New products • The High Latitude Proving Ground…and beyond!

  3. Improvements to Infrastructure • Implementing multi-core capabilities of CSPP • N-WAVE upgrade to bandwidth

  4. Improvements to Infrastructure • Implementing multi-core capabilities of CSPP • N-WAVE upgrade to bandwidth • “Operationalizing” direct readout at GINA • Partnering with NOAA/NESDIS to augment reliability via backup systems • Work with NOAA/NESDIS to mitigate problem of data dropouts when schedule of satellites conflicts

  5. Improvements to Infrastructure • Implementing multi-core capabilities of CSPP • N-WAVE upgrade to bandwidth • “Operationalizing” direct readout at GINA and preparing for potential SNPP -> JPSS-1 data gap mitigation – Sandy supplement (in implementation planning) • Partnering with NOAA/NESDIS to augment reliability via backup systems • A second, redundant antenna • Creating an overall increase in robustness • Enhance capabilities of Puffin Feeder website • Need for this demonstrated during 2013 breakup flooding • Puffin Feeder is the “go to” website for GIS users of real-time weather polar orbiting satellite data such as RFC and NWS Sea Ice Program: serves needs beyond AWIPS, e.g. geotiffs

  6. Increase Interaction with NWS • Product evaluation • Fog & Low Stratus • Satellite blog with NWS forecasters as intended audience • Vision: “Scott Bachmeier of the North” • Training sessions: live as well as asynchronous • Vision: contribute to satellite component of “Alaskan AWOC” • Want NWS forecasters to think of GINA (as well as others) when it comes to questions about satellites • Example: Dan Hancock and the DNB this spring

  7. Improvements to Existing Products • GOES-derived Fog and Low Stratus product has a noise issue over land. • Mike Pavolonis and collegues are working on improvements. • Melissa Kreller has made color enhancements that blank the noise to some degree as a temporary fix. • Stray-light issues with DNB: fixes from NOAA and UK Met Office on the way to mitigate “stripiness.” Solutions will be incorporated by CIMSS into their CSPP code

  8. New Products • Polar Mosaics (per Matthew Lazzara) into AWIPS • Reflectance product from Terra and Aqua birds at 2.1µm. Can tell difference between snow and clouds during daytime. • “I would die for this,” –Don Moore, Meteorologist in Charge, Alaska Aviation Weather Unit, April 26, 2013 • CIMSS IMAPP can produce this • CrIS-derived products • particularly helpful for aviation forecasts? • Use in data assimilation for local/regional modeling? • And more…

  9. High Latitude Proving Ground…and Beyond! • Ira Flato’s checkbook question • If money were practically unlimited, what would you fund to advance your area of science? • River Forecast Center: SAR • My fave: Environment Canada’s PCW • Replace QuikSCAT with QuikSCAT • “QuikSCAT is the best thing for our marine program since the invention of the boat,” Rick Thoman, WFO Fairbanks, circa 2008

  10. Outline • Improvements to infrastructure • Increase interaction with NWS • Improvements to existing products • New products • The High Latitude Proving Ground…and beyond!

  11. Thank You! • Questions? • http://feeder.gina.alaska.edu/ • eric@gina.alaska.edu • 907-474-7022

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