CIMSS-NOAA Weekly Report [ Archive ]

CIMSS-NOAA WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 7, 2025

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GOES-19 LAP Passes Provisional Stage Reviews: A Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-19 Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Provisional Peer Stakeholder - Product Validation Review (PS-PVR) was held for selected Legacy Atmospheric profile (LAP) retrieval products on February 5. The products include temperature and moisture profiles, total precipitable water and several derived stability indices. The presentations were given by Zhenglong Li (CIMSS) with input from Pei Wang (CIMSS), Jinlong Li (CIMSS), Rich Dworak (CIMSS), and Bill Bellon (CIMSS). The review panel was chaired by Dan Lindsey. The products passed the Provisional maturity review and the operational product is now available to users. (Z. Li, CIMSS, 608-890-1982, Pei Wang, Jinlong Li, Rich Dworak, Bill Bellon, and M. Kulie)

CSPP Geo releases new version of gridded GLM software: The Community Satellite Processing Package (CSPP) Geo team at the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) has released version 1.1 of the software package to create gridded Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) data. The software is capable of processing GOES-16, GOES-17, GOES-18 and GOES-19 GLM Level 2+ products in mission standard format (that is, LCFA files), generating a new set of products that have been gridded to the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) 2-km resolution and aggregated at one-minute intervals. The software creates files of Minimum Flash Area, Flash Extent Density and Total Optical Energy. Products are compatible with the Satpy Python library, and with display packages that are built with Satpy such as Geo2Grid. AWIPS-compatible tiles can optionally be generated, using functionality that was developed within the open source Python SatPy library. Input GLM L2+ files can be obtained from the CSPP Geo GRB software running at a direct broadcast site, from NOAA CLASS, or from NOAA Open Data Dissemination (NODD). (Note that GOES-19 GLM test data is not yet widely available as the instrument has not yet reached provisional status.) Output is in NetCDF4 format. Software can be downloaded from the CSPP Geo website. (G. Martin, L. Pfantz, J. Braun, S. Lindstrom; 608-263-6794; CIMSS)

Updates made to the TROPICS ATBD: Scientists at the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) updated the Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats’ (TROPICS) ATBD to include a new tropical cyclone (TC) intensity estimate. Coined Deep Multispectral INtensity of TCs 183 (D-MINT183), this intensity estimator employs a convolutional neural network to estimate TC maximum sustained winds and minimum sea level pressure using the TROPICS 183 GHz channels, as well as infrared imagery and environmental predictors. These intensity estimates will soon be available at the Space Science and Engineering Center TROPICS Data Processing Center. (S. Griffin, CIMSS, 608-262-0986, C. Velden, CIMSS, D. Herndon, CIMSS)

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CIMSS Satellite Blog Updates: The Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) Satellite Blog was updated with the following case studies: "Satellite estimates of Heavy Rain over Hawaii" (Jan. 31), "High Resolution Views of a Lake Michigan Winter" (Jan. 31), "LightningCast version 2" (Jan. 31), "Fresh snow cover on the summits of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa" (Feb. 2), "Significant Flooding in Northeast Australia" (Feb. 4), "What’s the Weather going to be on …" (Feb. 4) and "Grampians bushfire in southeast Australia produces a pyrocumulonimbus cloud" (Feb. 4). (S. Bachmeier, T. Wagner, J. Cintineo, T. Schmit, S. Lindstrom)

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