1. Wendy Schreiber-Abshire*, Patrick Dills*, & Marianne Weingroff UCAR’s COMET Program 30 April 2015 MetEd Resources at the Ready to Embrace Advancements in Environmental Satellites

2. 2 The MetEd Website

3.  Over 100 Satellite-specific lessons on MetEd, and three multi-lesson courses, one of which is on GOES-R + (69 English, 25 Spanish, 16 French)  Over 20,000 meaningful English satellite lesson user sessions per year NESDIS satellite training activities with the COMET Program attract additional funding and training development specifically in the satellite topic area from both EUMETSAT and the Meteorological Service of Canada  New satellite publications: “How Satellite Data Impact NWP”, 2 nd Ed. of “MRS: Land and Ocean Sfc. Applications”, and a distance learning course: “GOES-R Satellites Orientation Course” 3

4. 2014 English Lesson Quiz Completions (Eng) by Affiliation

5. 2014 Lesson Usage (Eng): > 400 Sessions

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9. 9 Next, Lesson and Course Highlights…

10. Examples: S-NPP

11.  VIIRS capabilities vs. earlier imagers  Imaging strategy, 22 bands, resolution  Key applications  Introduction to the Day-Night Band  Suomi NPP, JPSS-1 & -2 Introduction to VIIRS Imaging and Applications (Sep 2013)

12.  Technical Improvements with Suomi NPP VIIRS Day-Night Band  Lunar cycle & modeling, constant contrast techniques for normalized imagery  Meteorological and other applications  Future improvements in NT Vis imaging Advances in Space-Based Nighttime Visible Observation (Apr 2013) Examples: DNB

13.  Needs, advantages, capabilities  Microwave concepts and principles for observing land and ocean surfaces  Snow cover & water equivalent, sea ice, soil moisture, sea surface temperature  Past, current, and future missions Microwave Remote Sensing: Land & Ocean Surface Applications, 2 nd Edition (Jan 2015) Examples: DNB

14. GOES-R ABI: Next Generation Satellite Imaging (Feb 2013)  Key features and improvements

15. GOES-R ABI: Next Generation Satellite Imaging  Interactive exploration of ABI’s 16 bands, linking bands to observable phenomena  Movies describing advancements in ten application areas (e.g. analysis, forecasting, NWP, climate and environmental monitoring)

16. GOES-R GLM: Introduction to the Geostationary Lightning Mapper  Conceptual exploration of lighting and detection  Movies describing improvements that the GLM is expected to bring to a variety of applications

19.  Brief overview of the Himawari-8 AHI  Highlights differences from GOES-R ABI  Spectral bands and scan strategies  Benefits of data and products for users over the Pacific and Americas Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI) (Jan 2015)

21. http://meted.ucar.edu http://meted.ucar.edu/topics/satellite or search by keywords for either Lessons, Courses, or Images & Media abshire@ucar.edu abshire@ucar.edu dills@ucar.edu