Input for ORA/CoRP Directors Visit on my 2003-2004 Activities at CIMSS: - Image

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Input for ORA/CoRP Directors Visit on my
2003-2004 Activities at CIMSS- Image
products from the GOES Sounder and Imager-
Advocacy for GOES products- Outreach and
administrative matters

• G. S. Wade
• 11 August 2004

oradir2004-gsw.ppt
UW-Madison
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Accomplishments with image products from the
GOES Sounder and Imager
- GOES montage assembled for Hurricane Isabel
(Sep 2003) - Animation of layered precipitable
water (PW) Sounder SFOV derived product imagery
(DPI) added (Dec 2003) - CIMSS GOES Realtime Page
transferred to new CIMSS web server (Jan 2004) -
CIMSS GOES Realtime Page transitioned to solely
SFOV Sounder products (from vern), following
loss of suomi (Mar 2004) - Observed GOES
imagery compared to CRAS forecast imagery
(ongoing) REDOGS.BAT, COMPGOVCF.BAT,
makgovcf.scr, Fledgling effort to improve the
GOES Sounder retrievals back in early 2003, with
GOES retrieval directions meetings (resulting
from dissatisfaction with some of the routine DPI
during IHOP), has culminated in a renewed focus
to continue work on the current GOES Sounders, in
the GOES Retrieval Science (GRS) team,
dynamically led by Jun Li. Development is
underway with various modifications, considering
time continuity constraints, inverted cone
filtering, model independent first-guess, and
surface emissivity. http//cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/go
es/realtime/realtime.html http//cimss.ssec.wisc.e
du/aspt/products/prod.html http//cimss.ssec.wisc.
edu/goes/realtime/cf/
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GOES-12 Montage of Hurricane Isabel
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Accomplishments with image products from the
GOES Sounder and Imager
- GOES montage assembled for Hurricane Isabel
(Sep 2003) - Animation of layered precipitable
water (PW) Sounder SFOV derived product imagery
(DPI) added (Dec 2003) - CIMSS GOES Realtime Page
transferred to new CIMSS web server (Jan 2004) -
CIMSS GOES Realtime Page transitioned to solely
SFOV Sounder products (from vern), following
loss of suomi (Mar 2004) - Observed GOES
imagery compared to CRAS forecast imagery
(ongoing) REDOGS.BAT, COMPGOVCF.BAT,
makgovcf.scr, Fledgling effort to improve the
GOES Sounder retrievals back in early 2003, with
GOES retrieval directions meetings (resulting
from dissatisfaction with some of the routine DPI
during IHOP), has culminated in a renewed focus
to continue work on the current GOES Sounders, in
the GOES Retrieval Science (GRS) team,
dynamically led by Jun Li. Development is
underway with various modifications, considering
time continuity constraints, inverted cone
filtering, model independent first-guess, and
surface emissivity. http//cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/go
es/realtime/realtime.html http//cimss.ssec.wisc.e
du/aspt/products/prod.html http//cimss.ssec.wisc.
edu/goes/realtime/cf/
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A hallmark of GOES processing at CIMSS is its
continual real-time displays, day in and day out
Continuity and content of Sounder imagery
qualitative cornerstone of continuing hope for
determining better atmospheric profiles
GOES-12 replaces GOES-8 seamless transition
New satellite coverage new display
New Imager band new capability
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Differentiation of the three vertical layers of
precipitable water from the GOES Sounders
16 UT 15 Dec 2003
Total PW
High layer PW
Mid layer PW
Low layer PW
Note how ovals of relative maximum PW, over US,
shift with height.
See - http//cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/realtime/gr
tmain.htmluspw-3l
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Total and layered precipitable water from the
GOES Sounders at 3x3 FOV and SFOV
16 UT 15 Dec 2003
3x3 FOV
Single FOV
Total PW
Total PW
Note that layered scale (0-30mm) is half that of
total (0-60mm).
Mid layer PW pattern seems closest to that of
total high layer PW is most distinct.
High
High
Mid
Mid
Low
Low
16 UT 24 Dec 2003
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Accomplishments with image products from the
GOES Sounder and Imager
- GOES montage assembled for Hurricane Isabel
(Sep 2003) - Animation of layered precipitable
water (PW) Sounder SFOV derived product imagery
(DPI) added (Dec 2003) - CIMSS GOES Realtime Page
transferred to new CIMSS web server (Jan 2004) -
CIMSS GOES Realtime Page transitioned to solely
SFOV Sounder products (from vern), following
loss of suomi (Mar 2004) - Observed GOES
imagery compared to CRAS forecast imagery
(ongoing) REDOGS.BAT, COMPGOVCF.BAT,
makgovcf.scr, Fledgling effort to improve the
GOES Sounder retrievals back in early 2003, with
GOES retrieval directions meetings (resulting
from dissatisfaction with some of the routine DPI
during IHOP), has culminated in a renewed focus
to continue work on the current GOES Sounders, in
the GOES Retrieval Science (GRS) team,
dynamically led by Jun Li. Development is
underway with various modifications, considering
time continuity constraints, inverted cone
filtering, model independent first-guess, and
surface emissivity. http//cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/go
es/realtime/realtime.html http//cimss.ssec.wisc.e
du/aspt/products/prod.html http//cimss.ssec.wisc.
edu/goes/realtime/cf/
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GOES Observed Imagery versus CRAS Forecast Imagery
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Accomplishments with image products from the
GOES Sounder and Imager
- GOES montage assembled for Hurricane Isabel
(Sep 2003) - Animation of layered precipitable
water (PW) Sounder SFOV derived product imagery
(DPI) added (Dec 2003) - CIMSS GOES Realtime Page
transferred to new CIMSS web server (Jan 2004) -
CIMSS GOES Realtime Page transitioned to solely
SFOV Sounder products (from vern), following
loss of suomi (Mar 2004) - Observed GOES
imagery compared to CRAS forecast imagery
(ongoing) REDOGS.BAT, COMPGOVCF.BAT,
makgovcf.scr, Fledgling effort to improve the
GOES Sounder retrievals back in early 2003, with
GOES retrieval directions meetings (resulting
from dissatisfaction with some of the routine DPI
during IHOP), has culminated in a renewed focus
to continue work on the current GOES Sounders, in
the GOES Retrieval Science (GRS) team,
dynamically led by Jun Li. Development is
underway with various modifications, considering
time continuity constraints, inverted cone
filtering, model independent first-guess, and
surface emissivity. http//cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/go
es/realtime/realtime.html http//cimss.ssec.wisc.e
du/aspt/products/prod.html http//cimss.ssec.wisc.
edu/goes/realtime/cf/
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Example of real-time GOES Sounder Derived Product
Imagery Focused on Wisconsin
GOES total precipitable water (TPW) DPI at 1700
UTC on 25 Aug 2003
GOES (lt40mm) evidently drier than first-guess
GOES (40-50mm) markedly moister than first-guess
(Shouldnt such differences impact forecasts ?)
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Fundamental CIMSS research striving to make
quality real-time GOES Sounder radiance
observations into practical useful information
for weather forecasting
Atmospheric continuity and evolution are clearly
evident in multi-spectral animation.
Where will clouds be? Comparison between
observed imagery (bottom) and forecast imagery
(top) builds confidence in how well the CRAS
model is assimilating retrieved GOES Sounder
cloud and moisture information.
Where will forecast (GFS) moisture need to be
modified, monitoring trends, to provide a better
forecast for convection (as across Texas)?
Differences between retrieved GOES Sounder TPW
and the GFS forecast values are plotted over the
GOES TPW Derived Product Imagery (DPI).

1800 UT 2 Apr 2004
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Accomplishments with advocacy for GOES products
- Completed publication process (following Bill
Raymonds death in Feb 2003) for Raymond, W.H.,
G.S. Wade, and T.H. Zapotocny, 2004 Assimilating
GOES Brightness Temperatures. Part 1 Upper
Tropospheric Moisture. J. Appl. Meteor., 43,
17-27. _ , 2004 Assimilating GOES Brightness
Temperatures. Part 2 Assigning Water Vapor Wind
Heights Directly from Weighting Functions. J.
Appl. Meteor., 43, 1200-12. - Detailed critiques
of Beta tests of VISIT training modules (1.
Interactive cloud height algorithm and GOES
Sounder point retrievals in AWIPS 2. Forecasting
convective downburst potential using GOES Sounder
derived products) - Trips to southern Wisconsin
NWS Office (MKX) in Sullivan Sep 2003 (with T.
Mostek (COMET) and CIMSS contingent) Mar 2004
(with S. Bachmeier for shadowing N. Johnston
and IFPS processing experience) - Report from
Aug 2003 Workshop on Satellite Data Application
and Information Extraction (WSDAIE) (Dec 2003) -
Planning for WSDAIE-2 at Oct 2004 National
Weather Association (NWA) Annual Meeting for
workshop on towards better utilization of
satellite information (ongoing) - Provision of
CIMSS GOES DPI (?) to feed (1) regional AWIPS
(NWS), (2) in-house AWIPS, and (3) IDV users
(UNIDATA). AWIPS needs NetCDF format. CIMSS and
SSEC Data Center working on ingest of new
NOAAPORT DVB (direct video broadcast) signal with
help from UNIDATA. (ongoing)
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Adjusting a model field with GOES observations
The demonstrated assimilation procedure modifies
only the moisture field in physical space (in
contrast to radiance space). The numerical
optimization of the differences for channel 3
brightness temperatures (water vapor at 6.7 um),
between the forecast initial conditions (by a
forward radiative model) and the observed GOES
values, is incorporated directly into the CIMSS
Regional Assimilation System (CRAS) forecast
model. The partitioning of changes made to the
model moisture field, in physical space, is
directly proportional to the observational
weighting functions.
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Inclusion of GOES channel 3 brightness
temperature in the model assimilation improves
correlation of model synthetic images compared to
observed images
For these 00 UTC runs during the 10 day period,
the average improvement in correlation was 12.
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Comparison of model and GOES observed weighted
average winds (v)
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MEAN V WIND FOR 00 HRS AFTER 00 UTC
15 SEP 2000
OBSRVD V WIND FOR 00 HRS AFTER 00
UTC 15 SEP 2000
V component (north-south) wind fields

Model - observed difference
MEAN - OBSERVED V WIND DIFFERENCE FOR 00
HRS AFTER 00 UTC 15 SEP 2000
Determination of the difference fields, from both
the observed (moisture tracked) winds as well as
those from the model, made comparable as weighted
averages, provides the potential to correct the
model wind fields for the patterns measured from
GOES.
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Accomplishments with advocacy for GOES products
- Completed publication process (following Bill
Raymonds death in Feb 2003) for Raymond, W.H.,
G.S. Wade, and T.H. Zapotocny, 2004 Assimilating
GOES Brightness Temperatures. Part 1 Upper
Tropospheric Moisture. J. Appl. Meteor., 43,
17-27. _ , 2004 Assimilating GOES Brightness
Temperatures. Part 2 Assigning Water Vapor Wind
Heights Directly from Weighting Functions. J.
Appl. Meteor., 43, 1200-12. - Detailed critiques
of Beta tests of VISIT training modules (1.
Interactive cloud height algorithm and GOES
Sounder point retrievals in AWIPS 2. Forecasting
convective downburst potential using GOES Sounder
derived products) - Trips to southern Wisconsin
NWS Office (MKX) in Sullivan Sep 2003 (with T.
Mostek (COMET) and CIMSS contingent) Mar 2004
(with S. Bachmeier for shadowing N. Johnston
and IFPS processing experience) - Report from
Aug 2003 Workshop on Satellite Data Application
and Information Extraction (WSDAIE) (Dec 2003) -
Planning for WSDAIE-2 at Oct 2004 National
Weather Association (NWA) Annual Meeting for
workshop on towards better utilization of
satellite information (ongoing) - Provision of
CIMSS GOES DPI (?) to feed (1) regional AWIPS
(NWS), (2) in-house AWIPS, and (3) IDV users
(UNIDATA). AWIPS needs NetCDF format. CIMSS and
SSEC Data Center working on ingest of new
NOAAPORT DVB (direct video broadcast) signal with
help from UNIDATA. (ongoing)
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ASPT and CIMSS hosted a workshop to promote
interaction between researchers and forecasters
to help develop more effective satellite products
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Accomplishments with outreach and administrative
matters
- student oriented . McIDAS assistance for
satellite meteorology class (AOS 445) (Feb
2004) . Suomi scholarships (Apr 2004) . 2004
Summer Workshop on Atmospheric, Earth, and Space
Sciences (Jul 2004) . Assist R. Aune with
mentoring AOS student A. Harrington (summer
2004) . On working group to replace OWL within
AOSS building - professional collaborations .
Video/tele-conference to the ORA-ARL Technology
Exchange meetings . Participate in GLOS Workshop
on Remote Sensing at ERSC (Jul 2004) - federal
property custodian (from Jan 2004) .
Update/maintain local inventory listing
(aspt-property.20040630.xls) . Complete/file
CD-509s . Polycom VTC equipment - other . 2003
Combined Federal Campaign . Bill Raymond obituary
in May 2004 BAMS . Farewell display for Geary
Callan . Raising consciousness about color
blind users always
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Quick checklist for use of Polycom video
tele-conferencing (VTC) equipment in SSEC room 351
3-wire split (LAN,mic, A/C)
Toshiba TV monitor
Small table
4-wire (Video 1 and s-video)
Network hub
A/C outlet
1. Cables Verify/re-connect all wiring,
including plugging in the 2 A/C power cords and
switching ON the View Station.
View Station
Camera
2. Toshiba remote control Power - ON TV/video
toggle - VIDEO 1
Visual Concert comm hub
Chair
3. Polycom remote control Highlight/select
Video Call (arrow keys, center of) Enter phone
1 aaa xxx nnnn Press call (top key) Use
menu to go back
Chair
Beneath wall phone - jack 352-D059
Microphone 1
Microphone 2
Windows
Center tables
GSW - Jun 2004
Door
Not to scale
ISDN 1 700 700 3330
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Sift and Winnow a Wisconsin idea