STAR and GOES-R

1. STAR and GOES-R Presented by Timothy J. Schmit

2. Requirement, Science, and Benefit Mission Goals • Protect, Restore, and Manage the Use of Coastal and Ocean Resources through an Ecosystem Approach to Management • Understand Climate Variability and Change to Enhance Society’s Ability to Plan and Respond • Serve Society’s Needs for Weather and Water Information • Support the Nation’s Commerce with Information for Safe, Efficient, and Environmentally Sound Transportation Science • GOES-R information furthers each of NOAA’s mission goals • STAR supports the GOES-R program in many ways Benefits • National Weather Service and their customers (Emergency planners, General public, Numerical Weather Prediction, Space Weather, etc.) • Aviation • Air Quality • Department of Defense • International users (Central America, South America, Pacific, etc.) • Broadcasters, Etc.

3. GOES-R supports all Mission Goals Simulated ABI RGB Air Mass Product with Lightning SST Volcanic Ash Fire mask product from MODIS observations

4. Outline • Advanced Planning ABI band selection TRD, Performance and Operational Requirements Document AOLTAP, etc. • Current activities GOES-RRR AWG/Calibration WG Proving Ground Possible wavier requests Education/Training SME/COMET/VISITview presentations/papers • Future Continue current activities Capitalization plan Advanced soundings Day 2 products (blended products, etc.)

5. Advanced Planning • STAR was very involved during the early GOES-R development. This includes: formulation studies, ABI band selection and modification, Technical Requirement Documents, Performance and Operational Requirements Document, etc. ABI documents from 1999 when ABI was only 8 spectral bands, now it is 16. ABI TRD. circa 1999

6. ABI Visible/Near-IR and IR Bands Schmit et al, 2005

7. GOES-R Algorithm/Product Readiness Key components of a successful satellite program Established GOES-R programs/activities and working groups that directly support these components 7

8. Requirements Flow – Major Systems GOES-R

9. Teams/ Organizations Involved in the GOES-R Requirements Process NOAA Observing System Council (NOSC) Program Management Council GOES-R Series Operational Requirements Working Group (GORWG) NOAA Mission Goal Teams NOAA/NESDIS Center for SaTellite Applications and Research (STAR) NESDIS Technical Advisory Panels (TAPS) MIT – Lincoln Laboratory NASA Swales Aerospace The Aerospace Corporation Short and Associates Satellite and Instrument Vendors 9 Blue denotes STAR involvement

10. Grnd Flt GOES-R External Requirements Flow: STAR involvement NOAA Executive Panel (NEP) Deputy Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere (DUS) NOAA Program Management Council (PMC) Stakeholders and/or Users NOAA Executive Council (NEC) NOAA Observing System Council (NOSC) Satellite Products Services Review Board (SPSRB) GOES Operational Requirements WG (GORWG) GOES-R Program Office (GPO) • CCRs • Waivers • Etc. User Community GS Project A&O Contractor

11. Current Activities • STAR is very involved in current GOES-R activities, including (but not limited to): GOES-RRR, AWG (ATBDs)/Calibration WG, Proving Ground, Wavier requests, Education/Training (SME/COMET/VISITview) and presentations/papers. • Imagery • Soundings • Winds • Clouds • Aviation • Hydrology • Land Surface • Cryosphere • Radiation Budget • Lightning • Space Environment • SST and Ocean Dynamics • Aerosols / Air Quality / Atmospheric Chemistry • Proxy Data • Cal/Val (sensor) • Algorithm Integration AWG

12. GOES-RRR

13. Training etc. (under construction)

14. GOES-R Proving Ground

15. GOES-R Proving Ground The GOES-R Proving Ground engages NWS and other state and local offices in pre-operational demonstrations of selected capabilities of next generation GOES.

16. AWIPS Convective Initiation/Cold Top Cooling Interaction with Sullivan (MKE) NWS Office CI likely CI occurring Lightning 05:02 UTC 04:30 UTC 06:30 UTC Forecaster generated screen captures from AWIPS at MKE Satellite product leads the radar signature 16

17. GeoColor AWIPS PG Product

18. Successful 6th GOES Users' Conference held 3-5 November 2009 Monona Terrace Convention Center Madison, Wisconsin • The 6th Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Users' Conference (GUC) was held in Madison, Wisconsin, November 3-5, 2009. All the conference objectives were achieved. • The conference focus was the current, near-term, and future geostationary systems. There were over 260 participants from government, private industry, academia, and the international community, including representatives from EUropean organization for the exploitation of METeorological SATellites (EUMETSAT), the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), China, Japan, Korea, India, Brazil, and Canada. The conference consisted of oral presentations, poster sessions, panel discussions, and a town hall meeting. • STAR supported the 6th GUC in many ways.

19. Future Activities • STAR is will be involved in future GOES-R series activities, including, continue current activities, capitalization plan(s), advanced geo soundings (possible commercial data-buy option), Day 2 products, calibration, validation, conferences, publications, outreach, training, etc. (under construction)

20. Algorithm Validation StrategyA wide variety of reference (“Ground Truth”) datasets have been assembled and are being used… Aeronet StationsAerosol Optical Depth CALIPSO, CLOUDSATClouds, Icing Buoys, ShipsSST SURFRAD, ARMLST, Radiation Sfc Snow Reports, NESDIS IMSSnow Radiosondes Winds, Temperature, Moisture, Stability Rain GaugesPrecipitation NWP AnalysesWinds, Temperature, Moisture National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN)Lightning Pilot ReportsIcing,Turbulence Ground-based OzoneOzone AWG Product Application Teams and the Proxy Data Team have assembled a wide variety of “Ground Truth” datasets to use for Level-2 product validation activities

21. Private sector GOES-R Benefit analysis Beyond Current GOES Series 1 Discounted at 7% ABI-related incremental benefit of $4.6 B Other Potential Benefits ??? Improved Sounder Updated CBA (HES) $2.3B TC Forecast (HRSS) ABI-Related $1.9B $4.2B Updated CBA (ABI) $2.2B $2.4B TC Forecast (ABI) $4.6B Many applications and users were not included in this limited study.

22. Summary • STAR has supported the GOES-R program in many ways ABI band selection Performance and Operational Requirements Document Requirements AOLTAP, etc. • STAR is supporting the GOES-R program in many ways GOES-RRR AWG (ATBDs) /CWG Proving Ground Wavier requests Education/Training (SME/COMET) • STAR will supported the GOES-R series program in many ways capitalization plan advanced soundings Day 2 products Calibration Validation • GOES-R information furthers each of NOAA’s mission goals • STAR supports the GOES-R program in many ways

23. Back-up slides • SQUAM • ABI characteristics

24. The SST Quality Monitor - SQUAMDeveloped under GOES-R AWG and NPOESS Cal/Val Currently, SQUAM monitors SST from 5 AVHRRs (NOAA-16, -17, -18, -19, MetOp-A). VIIRS SSTs will be added once available. http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/sod/sst/squam/ NPOESS SST CalVal - SQUAM

25. 0.47 m 0.64 m 0.86 m 1.38 m AWG Proxy ABI Simulations of Hurricane Katrina 1.61 m 2.26 m 3.9 m 6.19 m NOAA/NESDIS STAR and GOES-R Imagery Team 6.95 m 7.34 m 8.5 m 9.61 m 10.35 m 11.2 m 12.3 m 13.3 m

26. GOES-R ABI will detect SO2 plumes Water Vapor Band Difference convolved from AIRS data sees SO2 plume from Montserrat Island, West Indies SO2 Plume Current GOES Imager No skill in monitoring Figure courtesy of Kris Karnauskas Current GOES Imager can not detect SO2 ABI 7.34 μm – 13.3 μm

27. Three ABI WV bands Future GOES Current GOES Images from J. Feltz

28. Information Volume) Current attributes: defined to be 1 “Information volume”

29. Improved attributes with the Future GOES Imagers “Information volume”