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GOES-14 Science Test December 2009 Don Hillger, Deb Molenar, Dan Lindsey, John Knaff NOAA/NESDIS/Satellite Applications and Research Regional And Mesoscale
GOES-14 Science Test December 2009 Don Hillger, Deb Molenar,
Dan Lindsey, John Knaff NOAA/NESDIS/Satellite Applications and
Research Regional And Mesoscale Meteorology Branch (RAMMB) Dave
Watson, Mike Hiatt, Dale Reinke, etc. CIRA, Colorado State
University Fort Collins CO Don Hillger and Tim Schmit co-lead the
NOAA Science Test 1
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Last time: GOES-13 Science Test December 2006 2
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Previous GOES Science Tests GOES-11 Daniels, J.M., T.J. Schmit,
and D.W. Hillger, 2001: GOES-11 Imager and Sounder Radiance and
Product Validations for the GOES-11 Science Test, NOAA Tech. Rep.
NESDIS 103, (August), 49 pp. GOES-12 Hillger, D.W., T.J. Schmit,
and J.M. Daniels, 2003: Imager and Sounder Radiance and Product
Validation for the GOES-12 Science Test. NOAA Tech. Rep., NESDIS
115, (September), 70 pp. GOES-13 Hillger, D.W., and T.J. Schmit,
2007: The GOES-13 Science Test, NOAA Tech. Rep., NESDIS 125,
(September), 88 pp. Hillger, D.W., and T.J. Schmit, 2009: The
GOES-13 Science Test: A Synopsis. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 90(5),
(May), 6-11. Acknowledgements The GOES Science Tests occur at the
end of long Post Launch Test (PLT) periods for each satellite and
are possible because of the cooperation of NASA and NOAA/OSD and
OSO personnel, who in particular prepare the satellite schedules
and enable the daily changes that are requested by the science
team. Thanks as well to all who contribute to the analysis of the
data collected during the Science Tests. 3
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GOES Science Test Goals For all GOES check-outs, the goals of
the Science Test include the following: 1)To assess the quality of
the GOES radiance data. This is accomplished by comparison to other
satellite measurements or by calculating the signal-to-noise ratio
compared to specifications, as well as assess the striping in the
imagery due to multiple detectors. 2)To generate products from the
GOES data stream and compare to those produced from other
satellites. These included several Imager and Sounder products
currently used in operations. 3)Rapid-scan imagery of interesting
weather cases are collected with temporal resolutions as fine as
every 30 seconds, a capability of rapid-scan imagery from GOES-R
that is not implemented operationally on current GOES. 4
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GOES-14 NOAA/Science Test Website
http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/projects/goes-o/ 5
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GOES-O baseline plan 2009 June Launch 6/26/09 LAM burn 1
6/28/09 LAM burn 2 7/1/09 LAM burn 3 7/3/09 LAM burn 4 7/5/09 LAM
burn 5 7/7/09 Solar array deployment 7/8/09 Magnetometer boom
deployment 7/12/09 PLT Start 7/16/09 Engineering Handover 7/17/09
SXI 6.29 Load 7/20/09 XRP Deploy 7/23/09 XRS/EUV Power-on 7/23/09
First Public Imager Full Disk Images 7/27/09 First Public SXI Image
8/5/09 Drift Control maneuver 8/6/09 Imager/Sounder Cooler Cover
Deployment 8/14/09 First Public IR Image 8/16/09 INR Start-up
8/27/09 to 9/3/09 Contingency Operations Readiness Review (CORR)
9/10/09 IMC Spec Testing 9/13/09 to 10/29/09 NSSK 1 Maneuver
10/30/09 EWSC to 105W Maneuver 11/9/09 to 11/21/09 NSSK 2 Maneuver
11/27/09 NOAA Science Testing 11/30/09 to 12/14/09 Operations
Acceptance Review (OAR) 12/14/09 PLT End 12/14/09 6
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First GOES-14 Visible Image 1730 UTC 27 July 2009 7
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First GOES-14 IR Images 1730 UTC 17 August 2009 8
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First GOES-14 Solar X-ray Image 1400 UTC 13 August 2009 The
NOAA Science Test does not involve the solar instrumentation.
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GOES-14 Science Test December 2009 Five (5) weeks: Starting: 30
November 2009 Ending: 04 January 2010 Eight (8) pre-determined
schedules (See
http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/projects/goes-o/#schedules
http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/projects/goes-o/#schedules Daily
schedule changes (at 1630 UTC), determined by test coordinators,
based on feedback from participating scientists GOES-14 will be
located at 105W during the Science Test Afterwards, GOES-14 will be
kept in normal mode and the solar instruments only will be
operational. 10
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GOES-O Test Schedules Test ScheduleImagerSounderPurpose
C5RTNEmulation of GOES-East routine operations Radiance and product
comparisons C4RTNEmulation of GOES-West routine operations Radiance
and product comparisons C1CONContinuous 5-minute CONUS
sector26-minute CONUS sector every 30 minutes Test navigation,
ABI-like (temporal) CONUS scans C2SRSOContinuous 1-minute
rapid-scan (with center point specified for storm analysis)
26-minute sector every 30 minutes (with center point same as
Imager) Test navigation, ABI-like (temporal) mesoscale scans
C3SRSOContinuous 30-second rapid-scan (with center point over
either Huntsville AL, Normal OK, or Washington DC areas) three
locations only 26-minute sector every 30 minutes (with center same
as Imager) To coordinate with lightning mapping arrays in
Huntsville AL, Norman OK, or Washington DC C6FDContinuous 30-minute
Full Disk (including off-earth limb/space view measurements)
Alternating east and west limb/space views every hour Noise,
detector-to-detector striping, fires, etc. C7MOONCapture moon off
edge of earth (when possible) Emulation of GOES-East routine
operations Test ABI lunar calibration concepts C8Emulation of 2 km
ABI through spatial over-sampling (continuous 19 minutes for same
sector per specific line-shifted scan strategy) Emulation of
GOES-East routine operations ABI-like higher-resolution product
development 11
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Limb Sounding (for noise/striping) 12
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CONUS Imager (product generation) 13
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CONUS Sounding (product generation) 14
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Imager rapid-scan (lightning/radar) 1-minute interval30-second
interval Example of center location over Huntsville AL 15
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Overlapping (ABI 2 km emulation) 16
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GOES-14 Coordination/Timing EventTime (UTC) Time (EST)
Washington DC Time (CST) Wisconsin/CIMSS Huntsville/NASA Time (MST)
Colorado/CIRA Coordinators send schedule requests (30 min before
actual request) 1500 UTC1000 EST0900 CST0800 MST Primary
coordinators request daily schedule (1 h before start) 1530 UTC1030
EST0930 CST0830 MST Start of new daily schedule (specified by
operations) 1630 UTC1130 EST1030 CST0930 MST 17
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Participating Sites SitePrimary CoordinatorsOther Coordinators
RAMMB/CIRA/ColoradoDon HillgerDan Lindsey John Knaff
ASPB/CIMSS/WisconsinTim SchmitGary Wade Scott Bachmeier
NASA/MSFC/Huntsville (mainly for rapid-scan imagery, coordination
with radar/lightning mapping arrays) Walt Petersen 18
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GOES-14 Science Test Preliminary Results First official GOES-14
images were collected from Imager (visible and IR) and Sounder
Improved (4 km) resolution of 13.3 m band required changes to GVAR
format. Several issues with implementing the new GVAR format were
discovered and are being rectified, both at the front end, and at
GVAR receiving sites. Paired detectors on the higher-resolution
13.3 m band were inadvertently swapped. Now fixed. Image navigation
issues have been addressed (McIDAS server software was upgraded.)
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GOES-14 Science Test Questions?
([email protected])[email protected] One stop GOES-14 Science
Test shopping: http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/projects/goes-o/
http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/projects/goes-o/ Tim Schmit
presentation to follow! 20