The HWT 2016 GOES-R/JPSS Spring Experiment in Norman, OK begins today, 18 April, and will run through 13 May. Three NWS Forecasters and one Broadcast Meteorologist will participate in the GOES-R and JPSS product evaluations each week. Participants will utilize the experimental satellite-based products in a real-time AWIPS-II to issue experimental mesoscale forecast updates and severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings.
Products to be evaluated include:
- GOES-R Legacy Atmospheric Profile (LAP) All-sky Thermodynamic Products
- GOES-R Convective Initiation and Severe Convective Initiation
- Probability of Severe Model
- GOES-14 Super Rapid Scan Operations for GOES-R (SRSOR) 1-min imagery
- Atmospheric motion vectors (updating every 10 minutes)
- Parallax-corrected 1-min imagery
- Total Lightning using PGLM (in LMA networks)
- Lightning Jump Algorithm (using ENI)
- NUCAPS Temperature and Moisture Profiles (JPSS)
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Bill Line, SPC/HWT Satellite Liaison