Thanks also to…Tom Wrublewski, NOAA Liaison OfficeSteve Kirkner, GOES Program OfficeScott Bachmeier, CIMSSEd Miller, NOAA Liaison OfficeEric Chipman, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Systems OperationMike Weinreb, General Dynamics Advanced Information SystemsSandy Ashton, SwalesFred Wu, NOAA/NESDIS/STARTim Walsh, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Systems DevelopmentGOES-N,O,P BookletGOES-I DataBookGOES-N DataBookMany others

The GOES-N Sounder and Imager Data and ProductsTimothy J. SchmitGary S. WadeNOAA/NESDIS, SaTellite Applications and Research (STAR) Advanced Satellite Products Branch (ASPB)

Jaime DanielsNOAA/NESDIS, SaTellite Applications and Research (STAR)Operational Products Development Branch (OPDB)

Donald W. HillgerNOAA/NESDIS, SaTellite Applications and Research (STAR)Regional And Mesoscale Meteorology Branch (RAMMB)

Mathew M. Gunshor James P. Nelson IIIAnthony J. SchreinerJun LiCooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS)

GOES-8/12

GOES-N/O/PPosition of the boom allows for colder detectors and hence less instrument noise.

GOES-N/O/P will have similar instruments to GOES-8-12, but will be on a different spacecraft bus. The new bus will allow improvements both to the navigation and registration, as well as the radiometrics.

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GOES-10 & -12 Sounder Cloud Top Pressure Coverage

Outage during landfall

• Spring and fall outages will be avoided by onboard batteries. Keep Out Zone outages will be reduced.

GOES-N Imager and Sounder Spectral Response Functions

GOES-N Check-out Web pagehttp://

rammb.cira.colostate.edu/projects/goes_n/

http://www.osd.noaa.gov/GOES/GOES_NQBooklet.pdf

Images from NASA

Star Trackers

Sounder

http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/text/goes.databook.html

Sounder Filter Wheel

Sounder

Note no data during the fall eclipse period

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Sounders and Imagers have provided quality hourly radiances and derived products over the continental U.S. and adjacent oceans for approximately 10 years.

The Sounder products derived include: clear-sky radiances; temperature and moisture profiles; Total Precipitable Water vapor (TPW) and layer PW; atmospheric stability indices such as Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE) and Lifted Index (LI); cloud-top properties; clear-sky water vapor winds via radiance tracking; and, total column ozone (experimental).

Imagers products include: retrieved Atmospheric Motion Vectors (AMVs); Quantitative Precipitation Estimates (QPEs); cloud parameters; clear-sky radiances; surface (skin) temperature; and, detection and characterization of fires, volcanic ash, fog, and (experimentally) cloud-top information .

These products are used for a number of numerical weather prediction and forecasting applications.

The upcoming GOES-N Sounder PLT (Post Launch Test) is an important step in preparing for operational use of the Imager and Sounder for generation of numerous products. The new GOES-N/O/P bus means there will effectively be no eclipse outages, much reduced Keep Out Zone outages, better calibration, and improved navigation and registration. Similar to previous GOES checkouts, there will be a period during which the instruments are run in various routine schedules for validation of radiance measurements, as well as for generation of products from the radiances. These post-launch check-out periods are essential to the subsequent successful operational use of the satellite assets.

GOES-12 Sample Sounder Image

GOES-N Sounder Weighting Functions

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Improved (compared to GOES-12) GOES-N Sounder noise is expected.

May 2006

http://goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/text/goes.databookn.html

Current GOES West Sounder at a Patch Temperature 92 K

Current GOES West Sounder at a Patch Temperature 100 K

GOES-N Spacecraft

GOES-N SCIENCE TEST PLANSGOES-N SCIENCE TEST PLANS1. Investigate and quantify/characterize the quality

of the GOES-N radiance measurements.

2. Investigate and quantify/characterize the quality of the GOES-N navigation and registration.

3. Investigate the utility of nearly continuous rapid scan imager imagery for improving forecasts of severe weather.

4. Generate Level-2 products from radiance measurements and characterize their quality by validating them against similar observations/derived quantities from other observational systems.

5. Archive continuous rapid scan imagery & accompanying ancillary data for select severe weather cases in support of GOES-R risk reduction activities.

• The GOES-N/O/P instruments will be less noisy.  -Lower (colder) patch (detector) temperature due to new boom placement allows a better view for radiating to space.- Patch temperatures may (seasonally) range from ~81 to <~88 K