1. WFO Guam (NWS/NOAA) Himawari Operations 2016 Roger Edson Science and Operations Officer, WFO Guam 2016 GOES-R/JPSS OCONUS Technical Exchange 29 June 2016

2. This is our AOR, WFO Guam

3. Area of Responsibility

4. 37 Warning Points Guam Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (4 locations) Republic of the Marshall Islands (9 locations) Federated States of Micronesia (20 locations) Republic of Palau (3 locations)

5. This is our AOR, WFO Guam

6. Tropical Cyclone Activity in our AOR in One (1) Year—23 TCs

7. Super Typhoon Pongsona Guam, December 8 th, 2002

8. WFO Guam is highly dependent upon satellite imagery (from ALL Sources and Sites…Intl, NOAA/NESDIS, Univ, DOD, ESA) AWIPS and Internet --Geostationary (GEO) --Polar Orbiting (LEO) High Resolution Visual Multi-frequency IR MI (Active and Passive)

9. Monitoring the Weather with Satellites (Polar) (GEO)

10. Tropical Cyclone Web Pages NRL http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/tc_pages/tc_home.html NOAA/NESDIS- CIRA (CSU) and CIMSS (Univ of Wisc) SCAT

11. From the WFO Guam Facebook, Nov 2015, source CIRA

13. Key Dates for Himawari 8 for WFO Guam 7 Oct 2014 Himawari 8 launched 25 Jan - 7 Jul 2015 Himawari 8 becomes available to certain users (CIMMS, CIRA, NRL) 16-20 Nov 2015 WFO Guam personnel receive Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI) sensor training from CIMSS (J. Gerth, …) Nov/Dec 2015 Himawari data available via AWIPS and NESDIS 4 Dec 2015 MTSAT service ends Mid Dec 2016 C-band Himawari antenna construction completed at WFO Guam (CAST) Dec 2015/Jan 2016 Begin receiving INTERNET CLOUD via AWIPS - Replace 2 –T1 (1.5 Mbps) lines with faster 2 – 100 Mbps lines Summer/Fall 2016, Construction of X-band antenna to receive LEO data at WFO Guam (JPSS program)

14. First Operational (TC) Use of Himawari 8 at WFO Guam 10 December 2016 (**MTSAT ended 4 Dec16**)

15. Himawari Internet Cloud Data (K. Bessho. IWTC8, 5Dec14) Table 3: The tentative data set to be distributed via the Internet Cloud service Format Observation area Notes Himawari Standard Data - Full disk Target area Full disk: every 10 minutes Target area: 2.5 min 16 bands Finest-spatial-resolution data Portable Network Graphics (PNG) - Full disk Target area True-color images (comp of 3 visible bands) Full disk: every 10 min Target area: 2.5 min Spatial res as Standard Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) -Target area Every 2.5 minutes 16 bands Spatial res as Standard

16. RGB band Composited Water vapor Atmospheric Windows SO 2 O 3 CO 2 0.51 μm(Band 2) instead of ABI’s 1.38 μm True Color Image Products and Applications Volcanic Ash Global Instability Index Nowcasting Typhoon Analysis Atmospheric Motion Vector Clear Sky Radiance Sea Surface Temperature Yellow Sands Snow and Ice Coverage VIS IR1 IR2 IR3 IR4 MTSAT-1R/2 Band Wavelength [μ ｍ ] Spatial Resolution 10.461Km 20.511Km 30.640.5Km 40.861Km 51.62Km 62.32Km 73.92Km 86.22Km 97.02Km 107.32Km 118.62Km 129.62Km 1310.42Km 1411.22Km 1512.32Km 1613.32Km Similar to ABI for GOES-R 16 Bands of AHI (from K. Bessho)

17. AWIPS-2 WFO Guam – Himawari CAST/Cloud availability CAST Backup Primary Windows CLOUD Test Window

18. AWIPS-2 WFO Guam – Available RGB products CLOUD RGB

19. AWIPS -2 WFO Guam – Derived products ( Normalized Difference Vegetation) Derived

20. AWIPS -2 WFO Guam Polar Microwave Data ( NASA SPoRT)

21. AWIPS-2 NASA SPORT SST Composite (GEO)

22. AWIPS-2 Satellite/Derived SSMI Total Precipitable Water (LEO)

23. Typical WFO Guam products and activities

25. Shearline Shear Line Guam

26. Use of ASCAT Scatterometer for Small Craft Advisories

27. Use of high resolution animated visual imagery

28. Visual Imagery (and water vapor) to perform a synoptic scale analysis

29. Can slowly become a tropical cyclone (rare) Can produce giant thunderstorms Can produce severe turbulence and wind shear Guam

30. Tropical Upper-Tropospheric Trough (TUTT) TUTT Favorable area for rain and thunderstorms; 15% of Typhoons develop from these Guam more water vapor

31. Animated Visible Imagery

32. The value of integrating microwave Imagery (LEO) with Animated, high res visual (GEO) -- It’s a typhoon; the center of the eye is near 10.8N 151.2E

33. Volcanic Eruptions Anatahan Island, CNMI

34. Volcanic Ash Anatahan Guam Saipan

35. Limitations and Requirements at WFO Guam Even though we have new faster comm lines, data still comes in sporadically into AWIPS2—difficult to get clean animations Backup CAST data is not at same resolution as CLOUD data AWIPS2 is not ideal for allowing for manual analysis (corrective streamlining, storm-relative animation, integration) Handling of polar orbiting swaths not efficient for comparing passes Possible TC-dedicated system Need for a McIDAS-like dedicated system to better evaluate and manipulate imagery (including integration of LEO and GEO data) Expansion of satellite sensors and sources (plus an operational need for a 24-hr help desk) Continued training and prepared training material for operational uses

36. KOSRAE

37. MAJURO

38. ROTA

39. QUESTIONS?