1. 2015 OCONUS Meeting Non Export-Controlled Information Progress in Development and Integration of the Product Generation Capabilities of the GOES-R Ground System Satya Kalluri, Ph.D. Randy Race GOES-R Program Office Code 416, Building 6, Room C200 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD 20771 Satya.Kalluri@noaa.gov http://www.goes-r.gov/

2. 2015 OCONUS Meeting Non Export-Controlled Information The GOES-R Ground System 2

3. 2015 OCONUS Meeting Non Export-Controlled Information GOES-R Instruments and Products 3 Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) 1.Aerosol Detection (Including Smoke and Dust) 2.Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) 3.Clear Sky Masks 4.Cloud and Moisture Imagery (KPP) 5.Cloud Optical Depth 6.Cloud Particle Size Distribution 7.Cloud Top Height 8.Cloud Top Phase 9.Cloud Top Pressure 10.Cloud Top Temperature 11.Derived Motion Winds 12.Derived Stability Indices 13.Downward Shortwave Radiation: Surface 14.Fire/Hot Spot Characterization 15.Hurricane Intensity Estimation 16.Land Surface Temperature (Skin) 17.Legacy Vertical Moisture Profile 18.Legacy Vertical Temperature Profile 19.Radiances 20.Rainfall Rate/QPE 21.Reflected Shortwave Radiation: TOA 22.Sea Surface Temperature (Skin) 23.Snow Cover 24.Total Precipitable Water 25.Volcanic Ash: Detection and Height Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) 1.Lightning Detection: Events, Groups & Flashes Space Environment In-Situ Suite (SEISS) 2.Energetic Heavy Ions 3.Magnetospheric Electrons & Protons: Low Energy 4.Magnetospheric Electrons: Med & High Energy 5.Magnetospheric Protons: Med & High Energy 6.Solar and Galactic Protons Magnetometer (MAG) 7.Geomagnetic Field Extreme Ultraviolet and X-ray Irradiance Suite (EXIS) 8.Solar Flux: EUV 9.Solar Flux: X-ray Irradiance Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) 10.Solar Imagery (X-ray): coronal holes, solar flares, coronal mass ejection source regions GOES-R PRODUCTS

4. 2015 OCONUS Meeting Non Export-Controlled Information Algorithm Implementation and Validation Pre-Launch: L1b and L2+ algorithm implementation in the Ground Segment (GS) is verified by comparing data products produced by the GS with expected results provided by instrument vendors (L1b) and the Algorithm Working Group (ABI and GLM L2+) Post-Launch: Products are validated following a Calibration/Validation plan – PLT- “Post launch re-certification of pre-launch instrument and algorithm performance” 4

5. 2015 OCONUS Meeting Non Export-Controlled Information 5 Cloud Mask Fractional Snow Cover Cloud Type & Phase Fire Volcanic Ash Aerosol Detection Sea Surface Temp. Land Surface Temp. Cloud Top Temp / Pres / Height Sounding Derived Motion Winds Cloud Opt. & Microphys. Properties Aerosol Optical Depth Shortwave Radiation Rainfall Rate Hurricane Intensity Cloud & Moisture Imagery Ancillary Processing Auxiliary Processing TARP (CRTM) 10656 11/24 Albedo (Option 2) ABI L2+ Product Precedence

6. 2015 OCONUS Meeting Non Export-Controlled Information Product Generation System Status Successfully completed Final Product Set Release on April 30 th on schedule Key functionality includes product generation and distribution functionality at 3 core sites – L0 → L1b → GRB for all 6 instruments – CMI/KPP generation – Generation of all ABI and GLM L2+ products – Distribution of products to AWIPS and PDA – Handover-Failover of KPP generation from WCDAS to RBU – 2 Satellite load 6

7. 2015 OCONUS Meeting Non Export-Controlled Information Examples of ABI Products 7 Band 2 Reflectance Factor

8. 2015 OCONUS Meeting Non Export-Controlled Information Sea Surface Temperature 8

9. 2015 OCONUS Meeting Non Export-Controlled Information Land Surface Temperature 9

10. 2015 OCONUS Meeting Non Export-Controlled Information Cloud Top Temperature 10

11. 2015 OCONUS Meeting Non Export-Controlled Information 11 Brightness Temperature Output Comparison Between Ground System and AWG GS Range: 0 to 500 Kelvin Fill Value: -999.0 Kelvin AWG Range: 0 to 500 Kelvin Fill Value: -999.0 Kelvin

12. 2015 OCONUS Meeting Non Export-Controlled Information AWIPS Test Results 12 AWIPS Sectors are defined in Appendix E of GS F&PS Totals for 24 hour data run: – Sectorized CMI products are sent to AWIPS as a set of tiles to minimize latency – e.g., Alaska has 6, Puerto Rico has 4 tiles per sector – Alaska – Hawaii – Puerto Rico – Full Disk – CONUS – Mesoscale East SCMI products205,520 Tiles West SCMI products230,160 Tiles Total435,680 Tiles

13. 2015 OCONUS Meeting Non Export-Controlled Information Sectorized CMI Over Puerto Rico Sector 13 ABI Band 1 at 1 Km

14. 2015 OCONUS Meeting Non Export-Controlled Information Sectorized CMI Over Alaska 14 ABI Band 1 at 1 Km Tile

15. 2015 OCONUS Meeting Non Export-Controlled Information Sectorized CMI Over Hawaii 15 ABI Band 1 at 1 Km

16. 2015 OCONUS Meeting Non Export-Controlled Information VAGL April 2015 L2 Algorithm to GAS End-to-End Latency Times (FULL DISK) 16 Seconds End-to-End L2 Product Latency to PDA

17. 2015 OCONUS Meeting Non Export-Controlled Information VAGL April 2015 L2 Algorithm to GAS End-to-End Latency Times (CONUS) 17 Seconds End-to-End L2 Product Latency to PDA

18. 2015 OCONUS Meeting Non Export-Controlled Information VAGL April 2015 L2 Algorithm to GAS Times (MESO) 18 End-to-End L2 Product Latency to PDA Seconds

19. 2015 OCONUS Meeting Non Export-Controlled Information GRB User Readiness Space Science & Engineering Center (SSEC at U Wisconsin) is developing a software package for processing GRB data with funding from GOES-R GRB V0.1 prototype released March 2015 – Creates ABI Level 1 and GLM Level 2 datasets – Writes output to NetCDF4 files – Test dataset provided Software and documentation available from website: http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/csppgeo/ http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/csppgeo/ – Includes ICD describing planned upstream data interface Planning new releases ~every 3 months, eventually support all GOES-R instruments 19

20. 2015 OCONUS Meeting Non Export-Controlled Information 20 GRB package output Level 1 simulated ABI data at 3.9 μm Courtesy: Graeme Martin, SSEC

21. 2015 OCONUS Meeting Non Export-Controlled Information 21 GRB package output Level 1 simulated ABI Courtesy: Graeme Martin, SSEC

22. 2015 OCONUS Meeting Non Export-Controlled Information Summary GOES-R Product Generation and Distribution capabilities successfully integrated, tested and deployed at 3 Sites Capabilities will be independently exercised and validated by the Government in Data Operations Exercises Implementation of science algorithms is being verified by comparing data products produced by the Ground Segment with outputs generated independently by the instrument vendors (L1b) and AWG (L2+) 22