Joint NWS & NESDIS/OSPO/SPSD Quarterly Meeting & Telecon

1. Joint NWS & NESDIS/OSPO/SPSDQuarterly Meeting & Telecon Wednesday, July 11, 2012 1700-1900 UTC, 1-3 pm EDT Presented by Matthew Seybold Location: WWB Conference Room 607 Telephone: (877) 917-1654 Passcode: 5917706# WebEx: https://spsd.webex.com/spsd/j.php?ED=193782392&UID=1096123742&PW=NZTViN2Q4MjJm&RT=MiMxMQ%3D%3D

2. Contact information for User ServicesNESDIS / Office of Satellite and Product Operations /Satellite Products and Services Division (SPSD) Special Projects Selina Nauman Admin Officer Linda Brown • SPSD • Dave Benner NOAA Ice Center Sharolyn Young Wallops CDA Doug Crawford Fairbanks CDA Larry Ledlow Corporate Services Keith Amburgey Director Kathy Kelly Deputy Director Mark Moran (a) Support Mike Settles • MOD • Ron Mahmot Deputy: Linda Stathoplos Deputy: Tom Renkevens Operations Al McMath Operations Steve Schaffer (a) Satellite Products Ricky Irving Acronyms CDA – Command and Data Acquisition MOD – Mission Operations Division SPSD – Satellite Products and Services Division Support Stephen Howard Satellite Analysis Davida Streett Systems Engineering Bob Clark Systems Alva Barnette Direct Services Chris O’Connors SPSD User Services Engineering Cindy Hampton IT Services Andre Hammond Natalia Donoho Work: (301)763-8051 x134 Cell: (202) 604-0734 Natalia.Donoho@noaa.gov Matthew Seybold Work: (301)763-8051 x106 Cell: (443) 985-9172 Matthew.Seybold@noaa.gov

3. Goals • Share status and updates • Improve communication • Provide an open forum for satellite customers to provide feedback to user services • Questions are encouraged!

4. Agenda • Contact Info • Goals • Existing Action Items • GOES Status • Meteosat-10 • Himawari-8/9 • Future GEO • POES Status • NPP / JPSS • METOP-B • GCOM-W1 • NWS Update on AWIPS II • Deployment / Implementation • Change Request Process • ESPC Products Update • Banghua Yan, Ocean Color PAL • SPSD User Services Update • Relocation to NCWCP • Upcoming face-to-face opportunities • Discussion

5. Existing Actions Items Action Items from Prior meeting – April 17, 2012 are listed below • Action! User Services – NPP Questions: Provide timelines for data flow to AWIPS, operational status (within ESPC) of each NPP instrument, level of support for monitoring and notifications and associated timelines. • Action! User Services: When will products be available from GCOM-W1 (JAXA)?

6. GOES Status (June 29, 2012)http://www.oso.noaa.gov/goesstatus Key Operational Spacecraft issues but no user impacts Operational with limitations Non-operational G S/C Y R

7. GOES Status (June 29, 2012)http://www.oso.noaa.gov/goesstatus GOES-12 Imager Cycle Slip Occurs periodically. 2 to 3 images are corrupted or lost for each cycle slip. OSPO Developed a pseudo-telemetry to detect the anomaly for quick correction response. Key Operational Spacecraft issues but no user impacts Operational with limitations Non-operational • GOES-15 Sounder temperature control blanket is raised. Yaw flip at Equinox to keep Sun angle below cooler plane. Data outage and degraded products during each yaw flip maneuver and 28 hours of INR recovery period. G GOES-13 Imager Incident Report is still open for the one-pixel offset in the Imager IR data. ITT Excelis meeting is postponed until later this month. STAR estimates differ from the reported one-pixel. Stay tuned. GOES-13 Sounder filter wheel winding motors are both operating. This is slightly sub-optimal from an engineering perspective, but past satellites have operated for extended periods in this configuration, and there is no impact to user’s data. GOES-12 X-ray Imager has failed. No recovery possible. S/C GOES-13 X-Ray Sensor Failed. No x-ray space measurements being collected. GOES-12 Inclination Control is non-operational. No fuel remains for inclination control maneuvers. Code was loaded to mitigate image motion at slightly inclined orbit. XGOHI (eXtended GOES High Inclination.) Users should expect a 4 minute delay from the time actually imaged.  As with the past GOES-10, users should also expect if there is a frame break during an image that the rest of the image will be lost.  Without XGOHI, the growing satellite inclination would continue to cause loops with an ever increasing "wobble". Y R

8. GOES-15 Line Shifts GOES-15 line shifts • Generally a westward shift • The shifts are caused by the sync loss of the system, which leads to the loss of the data during a scan • Potential Causes • Perhaps BER (Bit Error Rate) • Confirmed for a short period - GOES-R Construction – Gas generator was shut off and relocated • Will pursue having an incident report opened

9. GOES-15 Line Shifts GOES-15 line shifts • Generally a westward shift • The shifts are caused by the sync loss of the system, which leads to the loss of the data during a scan • Potential Causes • Perhaps BER (Bit Error Rate) • Confirmed for a short period - GOES-R Construction – Gas generator was shut off and relocated • Will pursue having an incident report opened

10. GOES-14 Normal ModeActivities under Consideration GOES-14 is scheduled for normal mode activities during an annual N/S maneuver in August, 2012 Various Engineering check-outs and exercises Considering • Verify new optimized GOES-East Imager and Sounder schedules (not yet available) • SRSO (1-min) Imager data collection for GOES-R Science Test Planning (2 weeks in Late August) • The 'generic' SRSO location would be Norman, OK • Collect Imager stray light correction data (Mid-Aug. – End of Oct.) • Provide SXI and XRS data for SWPC during GOES-15 eclipses

11. GOES Flyout Schedule http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/FlyoutSchedules.htmlhttp://www.goes-r.gov

12. Future GEO PlansMETEOSAT-10 (MSG-3) Launched July 5, 2012 From French Guiana Operational Transition Plans in progress at EUMETSAT Meteosat-10 and Meteosat-9 will split the primary duties at 0° and 5° East (backup status) Meteosat-8 will go to Indian Ocean Meteosat-7 will go ?

13. Future GEO PlansHimawari-8/9 (sunflower) There is no L-band on these satellites. There is dialogue with JMA and COPC partners on if/how to get data back to the U.S. JMA plans to launch Himawari-8 in 2014 and begin its operation in 2015 The launch of Himawari-9 for in-orbit standby is also scheduled in 2016 Himawari-8/9 will be in operation around 140 degrees East covering the East Asia and the Western Pacific

14. Question RE Himawari-8 Unanswered question from Mike Johnson, NWS What is the timeline on data availability and current thoughts on distribution of data (particularly for use in NWS Pac Region and JTWC) ?

15. Future GEO Plans At this point, NESDIS is not pursuing COMS (Korea) or Elektro-L (Russia) GEO data

16. POES Status (July 2, 2012)http://www.oso.noaa.gov/poesstatus/index.asp

17. POES Status (July 2, 2012)http://www.oso.noaa.gov/poesstatus/index.asp AVHRR Scan Motor Failed AMSU –A1 Scan Motor Failed N15 still available to users HIRS Filter Wheel Stalled, N17 & METOP-A still available to users • HIRS Longwave channel noise AMSU-B Antenna Scan Motor Failed, METOP-A MHS still availalble to users Transmitter off, no LRPT APT 1 & 2 Failed, N19 still available to users

18. JPSS & NPP News NPP Launch Oct., 2011; Ops Apr., 2013 However, NCEP is using CrIS / ATMS radiance data in ops models already.

19. Suomi NPPInstrument Status – June 26, 2012 The SNPP Command & Data Processor (CDP) reset and placed the spacecraft and all sensors into Earth Point Safe Mode on June 21 at 17:59:10Z. The Data Storage Unit (DSU) was dumped and provided to spacecraft vendor for investigation of root cause. Satellite was restored to Mission Point (operating) Mode and sensors were brought to operating status on June 22. The resulting science data gaps are as follows: VIIRS--20 hrs 44 mins; OMPS-21 hrs 43 mins; ATMS-18 hrs 56 mins; CERES-19 hrs 00 mins; and CrIS-24 hrs 9 mins. Investigation of the anomaly has been turned over to the JPSS Flight Project which will provide updates through its normal reporting processes. All instruments now in nominal operations mode with full science data production (VIIRS, CrIS, ATMS, OMPS, CERES)

20. Suomi NPP - Mission Status The number of NPP Data Access requests from OSPO is growing Testing with primary customers is well underway with the NDE group at NSOF testing with NCEP, AFWA, NAVO, FNMOC, EUMETSAT, and others NCEP will ingest ATMS to the GFS in June, 2012 The plan for data access requests and delivery to customers is still being finalized between NESDIS/OSD and NESDIS/OSPO OSD will provide 8 x 5 (and best effort) monitoring Ongoing T2O meetings between OSD and OSPO Resources: Common Data Format Control (CDFC) book of NPP products being delivered to NDE: http://jointmission.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/documents.html FY11 Project Acquisition Plan: http://projects.osd.noaa.gov/NDE/ pub-docs/NDE_FY2011_Project_Acquisition_Plan.pdf Project Summary: http://projects.osd.noaa.gov/NDE/pub-docs/NDE_Concept_of_Operations-v4.pdf

21. Question RE NPP Unanswered question from Mike Johnson, NWS Where do NPP and NASA/Aqua lie for crossing times and drift (position in current polar configuration) ? OSPO Engineers reported the following: • 13:30+/- 00:10 Mean Local Time box • Our orbit altitude is 824 km. • Current Mean Local Time as of 20120710: 13:23 • U/S can obtain Aqua specs from NASA Are we on the right track?

22. Other Future POES News METOP-B GCOM-W1 (JAXA) Launched May 18, 2012 Began obs. July 3, 2012 Joins afternoon “A-Train” AMSR2 Focus is water observations It is a successor to Aqua and is part of the GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems) • Launch pushed from May 2012 to September 2012 • 50 minutes behind METOP-A (morning) • More… • ASCAT – Winds • IASI, AMSU-A, HIRS/4 – Soundings • AVHRR – Fires • GOME-2 – Ozone • MHS – Cyclones • Searth & Rescue • SEM – Space Obs

23. GCOM-W1 – “Shizuku”(water droplet) One of the first images distributed is this one-full-day image by AMSR2 on SHIZUKU from 9:00 a.m. on July 3 (JST) to July 4. http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2012/07/20120704_shizuku_e.html Whitish-yellow color parts indicate areas with heavy rain or sea ice, light blue color areas are with little water vapor in the atmosphere or thin clouds, the dark blue color sections are areas with more water vapor in the atmosphere or thicker clouds, and the black color parts are areas that were not observed.

24. Question RE GCOM-W1 Unanswered question from Mike Johnson, NWS GCOM-W1. What is the schedule for operational availability of products through JPSS IDPS? Is there any way that AMSR-2 imagery can be made available to NWS (inside IDPS) or through any other means (JAXA web service) ASAP especially before next years hurricane / tropical storm season?

25. AWIPS II Deployment/Implementation and Change Request Process for AWIPS II Bonnie Reed, Brian Motta, Mike Johnson

26. Status of AWIPS-II Implementation as of 10 June Note: Blue – Installed but rolled back WFO/RFC/Central Listing is on Slide 3.

27. Status of AWIPS-II Implementation as of 10 June(continued) Note, the AWIPS-II Implementation schedule is updated on a daily basis.

28. WFO/RFC/Central Listing

29. Process for Implementing NESDIS operational products into AWIPS II • Submit Satellite Products and Services Review Board Request (SPSRB) and concurrent Operations and Services Improvement Process (OSIP) Request • SPSRB funds O&M processing development • OSIP validates requirement within NWS • Software Recommendation and Evaluation Committee (SREC) Process • New/enhanced products are ranked by SREC voting members and assigned to a Development Organization if AWIPS II software changes are required.  • If no AWIPS II software changes are necessary, resources are still needed for testing the products in AWIPS II.  • New data products (or an increase in volume) intended to flow on the SBN will need an RC and the usual bandwidth analysis prior to implementation. Note: The full SREC Process can be found in the SREC Charter: https://sec.noaa3a.awips.noaa.gov/srec/files/srec_charter.pdf

30. Question RE Promotions to AWIPS • What is the status for testing of Blended Rate Rateproducts in AWIPS-I and AWIPS-II? • These products reached operational status in OSPO in April, 2012

31. Product Updates from SPSRB(Satellite Products & Services Review Board) http://projects.osd.noaa.gov/spsrb https://requesttracker.osd.noaa.gov/admin_login.asp 12 New Requests since April Quarterly! … Charged Particle Densities, SSTs, OHC

32. Product Updates New Operational MODIS/Aqua Ocean Color Products Using the NIR-SWIR Method from NOAA CW Okeanos Operational Production System • IPT Lead: Menghua Wang (STAR), Menghua.Weng@noaa.gov • IPT Backup Lead: Banghua Yan (OSPO), Banghua.Yan@noaa.gov

33. Announcement of Operational NIR-SWIROcean Color Products Product examples New operational ocean color products (NIR-SWIR Products): On July 6, 2012, MODIS ocean color products using the near-infrared (NIR) and shortwave infrared (SWIR) data processing are operational in NOAA NIR-SWIR products have improved quality over coastal areas compared with current ocean color products using NIR method The products also have a new product, diffuse attenuation coefficient at the wavelength of 490 nm (Kd490)

34. Specifications of NIR-SWIROcean Color Products Satellite Sensor: MODIS/Aqua Processing Environment • Okeanos Operational Production System (OPS) Product Specifications • Products: chlorophyll-a concentration (daily mean and anomaly, bimonthly mean), water diffuse attenuation coefficient at 490 nm (daily mean), remote sensing reflectance at 667 nm (daily mean and anomaly, bimonthly mean) • Coverage: all existing CW regions • Formats: HDF 4.1, GeoTiff and PNG • Spatial Resolution: 1 km • Timeliness: <12 hours Access Information: • NOAA COASTWATCH ftp server (ftp://ftpoceanwatch.noaa.gov/pub/modis/) • NOAA COASTWATCH web portal (http://coastwatch.noaa.gov/cwn/search/interface.html) • ESPC DDS • NODC Class (http://www.class.ngdc.noaa.gov/saa/products/catSearch): in progress (Contact Information: Banghua.Yan@noaa.gov, 301-763-8142, ext.137)

35. News From The Web Teamhttp://www.ospo.noaa.gov • Let’s coordinate on satellite links from weather.gov • Ideas from Tim Schmidt and Tom Renkevens… • More options for weather.gov links to satellite imagery: • http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/imagery/land.html • Note the CONUS scale option: • http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/imagery/ceus.html • Regional scales • http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/cp.html • WFO scales • http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/wfo/ilx.html • Maybe each WFO could link to a conus or regional scale and have a link to the WFO scale. • Coordinate with Nancy Merckle, Natalia Donoho, Matthew Seybold

36. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Database • The Goal is for improved management of • Product Monitoring Procedures • Trouble Tickets • Notifications • Tracking of Interactions with Users • Data Load Status • Complete • Satellites • Instruments • Applications • End Products • Servers • In Progress • Organizations and Contacts • User / End Product Linkage • Training for Help Desk, PALs, Assignees • Complete – Incident Tracking • Next – Search/Navigation & Notifications • Web Portal (Future) • User Help Ticket Submission • User Contact Information and Reaffirmation Organizations & Contacts Incidents (Help Tickets) End Products Applications Notifications Servers Reporting Instruments Satellites

37. NCWCP (NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction) • Move Dates for OSPO / Satellite Products & Services Div. • SAB - August 13 & 23, 2012 • SPB – August 22 & 23, 2012 • Front Office (inc. User Services) – August 22 & 23, 2012 • Website for future tenants: http://www.ncep.noaa.gov/ncwcp/ • Public access photo log: http://www.ncep.noaa.gov/news/ncwcp/

38. SPSD User Services

39. Face-to-face opportunities EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference • September 3-7, 2012 in Sopot, Poland • http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/News/Conferences_and_Events/810062?l=en • NWA 37th Annual Meeting • October 6-11, 2012 in Madison, WI • http://www.nwas.org/meetings/nwa2012/ SeaSpaceInternational Remote Sensing Conference • October 21-24, 2012 in San Diego, CA • http://www.seaspace.com/?mid=conference • NWS/Eastern Region Virtual Satellite Workshop • October 30, 2012 in Virtual Workshop • http://www.erh.noaa.gov/ssd/erps/satellite/

40. Face-to-face opportunities • AGU Annual Meeting • December 3-7, 2012 in San Francisco, CA • http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2012/ • IUGG GRC Conference - “Extreme Natural Hazards and Their Impacts” • December 8-12, 2012 in Orange, CA • http://www1.chapman.edu/~rsingh/GeoRisk2012 • AMS Annual Meeting • January 6-10, 2012 in Austin, TX • http://annual.ametsoc.org/2013/index.cfm/call-for-papers/ • NOAA Satellite Conference !!! …see next slide

41. Due to opportunity for cost savings, the event has been moved from Miami FL to the Washington DC area • Dates and venue are under consideration and TBD • Web page shows up to date info http://directreadout.noaa.gov/2013/index.htm

42. Next Quarterly Teleconference? Tentatively - October 2, 2012

43. Contact Information

44. Thank you! Any questions? Suggestions for revised agenda or topics? Are these quarterly meetings fulfilling your needs?