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GOES-13 Sounder Noise
Don Hillger
NOAA/NESDIS/StAR/RAMMB
CIRA/Colorado State University
Hourly GOES-13 Sounder noise from 24-h of limb (earth and space) views, East limb of earth, Julian Day 343-344
Note the peak in noise at and around 0746 UTC
Hourly GOES-13 Sounder noise from 24-h of limb (earth and space) views, East limb of earth, Julian Day 344-345
Note the peak in noise at and around 0746 UTC
Hourly GOES-13 Sounder noise from 24-h of limb (earth and space) views, West limb of earth, Julian Day 343-344
Note the peak in noise at and around 0816 UTC
Hourly GOES-13 Sounder noise from 24-h of limb (earth and space) views, West limb of earth, Julian Day 344-345
Note the peak in noise at and around 0816 UTC
Sounder Band
Central Wavelength
(μm)
East Limb
West Limb
Limb Average
Limb Average
CIMSSAnalysis
13-bit GVAR counts (0-8191) (mW/(m2·sr·cm-1))
1 14.71 20.8 20.9 20.9 0.32 0.32
2 14.37 17.3 17.0 17.2 0.25 0.26
3 14.06 14.3 13.9 14.1 0.23 0.24
4 13.64 9.17 8.92 9.05 0.18 0.19
5 13.37 8.18 8.05 8.12 0.18 0.19
6 12.66 3.95 4.01 3.98 0.095 0.11
7 12.02 3.14 3.56 3.35 0.086 0.10
8 11.03 4.12 3.99 4.06 0.10 0.12
9 9.71 5.95 5.86 5.91 0.11 0.12
10 7.43 11.5 11.3 11.4 0.081 0.09
11 7.02 11.2 10.8 11.0 0.046 0.05
12 6.51 22.7 22.5 22.6 0.063 0.07
13 4.57 7.51 7.28 7.40 0.0061 0.007
14 4.52 11.2 11.1 11.2 0.0064 0.007
15 4.46 18.3 17.6 18.0 0.0055 0.006
16 4.13 4.01 3.91 3.96 0.0030 0.003
17 3.98 3.88 3.90 3.89 0.0026 0.003
18 3.74 2.67 2.46 2.57 0.0011 0.001
GOES-13 Sounder noise(From 48 hours of limb (earth
and space) views on Julian days 343-345)
Note that the noise
estimates are very similar to
those calculated
independently by CIMSS.
Sounder Band
CentralWavelength
(μm)
GOES-13 GOES-12 GOES-11 GOES-10 GOES-9 GOES-8 SPEC
(mW/(m2·sr·cm-1))
1 14.70 0.32 0.77 0.67 0.71 1.16 1.76 0.66
2 14.40 0.25 0.61 0.51 0.51 0.80 1.21 0.58
3 14.10 0.23 0.45 0.37 0.41 0.56 0.98 0.54
4 13.90 0.18 0.39 0.36 0.41 0.46 0.74 0.45
5 13.40 0.18 0.34 0.34 0.36 0.45 0.68 0.44
6 12.70 0.095 0.14 0.17 0.16 0.19 0.32 0.25
7 12.00 0.086 0.11 0.11 0.09 0.13 0.20 0.16
8 11.00 0.10 0.11 0.14 0.12 0.09 0.13 0.16
9 9.70 0.11 0.14 0.13 0.10 0.11 0.16 0.33
10 7.40 0.081 0.099 0.09 0.07 0.08 0.08 0.16
11 7.00 0.046 0.059 0.06 0.04 0.05 0.07 0.12
12 6.50 0.063 0.11 0.11 0.07 0.09 0.11 0.15
13 4.57 0.0061 0.0062 0.006 0.007 0.008 0.012 0.013
14 4.52 0.0064 0.0062 0.007 0.005 0.007 0.010 0.013
15 4.45 0.0055 0.0066 0.006 0.005 0.006 0.009 0.013
16 4.13 0.0030 0.0024 0.003 0.003 0.003 0.004 0.008
17 3.98 0.0026 0.0022 0.003 0.002 0.003 0.004 0.008
18 3.70 0.0011 0.00094 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.002 0.004
Summary of the noise for GOES-8 through GOES-13 Sounder Bands(The Specification (SPEC) values are also listed)
