NWA Annual Meeting Joint Satellite Workshop Kathryn Mozer GOES-R User Services Coordinator NOAA/NESDIS/OSPO/SPSD NWA Joint Satellite Workshop September 17, 2017

OUTLINE Workshop overview GOES Constellation and Current Status ockheed Martin Proprietary Informationockheed Martin Proprietary Information OUTLINE Workshop overview GOES Constellation and Current Status GOES-R Instrument Overview Disclaimer: All GOES-R imagery presented in this workshop are non-operational as the GOES-R satellite and instruments are undergoing post-launch testing ockheed Martin Proprietary Informationockheed Martin Proprietary Information

Workshop Overview

Workshop Overview and Agenda GOES-R Overview – Kathryn Mozer S-NPP/JPSS Overview – Mitch Goldberg Chetco Bar Fire case study 20 June 2017 GOES-R/16 Short Course

GOES-R Launch and Current Status

GOES Constellation 2 operational satellites 1 standby 1 spare GOES-West GOES-15 135° West GOES-East GOES-13 75° West Standby GOES-14 105° West GOES-16 Checkout 89.5° West 2 operational satellites 1 standby 1 spare

GOES-16 Status Launched November 19, 2016 at 6:42 PM EST ockheed Martin Proprietary Informationockheed Martin Proprietary Information GOES-16 Status Launched November 19, 2016 at 6:42 PM EST Post-launch testing until June 23, 2017: Handover to NOAA Operations Currently in a 6 month period of extended validation testing All instrument data being distributed via GOES Rebroadcast (GRB) ABI data also available via CLASS Nov: Move to operational location to replace GOES-13 (GOES- East) Dec: GOES-16 operational GOES-S scheduled to launch Spring 2018 All dates are subject to change! Launching a satellite is like opening a new restaurant. Post-launch testing is like a soft opening with a limited audience, which allows for trouble-shooting and preparing for the grand opening. Post-launch testing is conducted through a series of tests and demonstrations performed by the key elements of the system: the satellite, ground system, and products. During post-launch testing, there are periodic, planned data outages that are necessary to perform specific verification and validation functions. These outages are generally brief and part of normal post-launch testing, and they are part of the reason it’s important not to depend on GOES-16 data for operational needs during the testing period. ockheed Martin Proprietary Informationockheed Martin Proprietary Information

Instrument Overview

GOES-R Series Spacecraft ockheed Martin Proprietary Informationockheed Martin Proprietary Information GOES-R Series Spacecraft Extreme Ultraviolet and X-Ray Irradiance Sensor (EXIS) Space Environment In Situ Suite (SEISS) Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) Magnetometer Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) ockheed Martin Proprietary Informationockheed Martin Proprietary Information

Geostationary Lightning Mapper

Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) Instrument Info: ~ 10 km across field of view with 8 km CONUS, 14 km at edge of field of view Detects extent of total lightning activity Day/night coverage with 70-90% flash detection (better at night) Near-uniform detection efficiency spatially across the domain Continuous coverage (2 ms frame rate) <20 sec latency Mission Benefits: Cover data sparse regions Diagnosing convective storm structure and evolution Improved warning decision-making when combined with radar and satellite imagery Aviation and marine convective weather hazards Tropical cyclone intensity change Decadal changes of extreme weather – thunderstorms/ lightning intensity and distribution Lightning Safety! East/West GLM FOV Figures courtesy of Steve Goodman

Advanced Baseline Imager

Advanced Baseline Imager - ABI Three Times More Spectral Information GOES-13/14/15 Spectral Bands GOES-R Spectral Bands

Four Times More Spatial Resolution Spatially: GOES-R Current 0.64 um VIS: 0.5 km 1 km other VIS/NIR: 1 km n/a IR: 2 km 4 km

Five Times Faster Coverage GOES-R: Current: Flex Mode Routine Full Disk: 15 min 3-hr CONUS: 5 min 15-min Mesoscale: 30-sec n/a or, 2 x 1-min GOES-R: Current: Cont. FD Mode FD Only Full Disk: 5-min 25-min OR ABI Mode 3 (Flex Mode) This illustrates the scanning strategy which scans in swaths. Forecasters will see the full, completed images. Figure courtesy of J. Li ABI in Flex Mode (15-min period)

Flex Mode Scanning 1 min 5 min 1 min 15 min Flex Mode (mode 3) Mesoscale box locations are movable 1 min 5 min 1 min 15 min 1-km2 spatial resolution at satellite nadir. Pixel Areas are approximate. Each bin is rounded to the nearest 1km2 until we get to 9.5km2 and then all are binned into the red 10+ area. So the first, dark blue, ring covers pixel areas from 1 to 1.49km2 and is labeled “1”, above 1.5 to below 2.5km2 goes into the next ring and is called “2”, etc. GOES-East location. Proposed CONUS sector, approved by the NWS NOAT. Two meso-scale image sectors shown; these are selectable. The same central lat/lon used for these mesoscales produces a different sized and shaped area for different satellite locations. Flex Mode (mode 3) Courtesy of Tim Schmit and Mat Gunshor

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Questions? Slide credit to the GOES-R Program, the GOES-R Product Readiness and Operations Team, Tim Schmit, Mat Gunshor, Bill Line Email questions to Kathryn Mozer (Kathryn.Mozer@noaa.gov)