1. DIRECT READOUT APPLICATIONS USING ATOVS ANTHONY L. REALE NOAA/NESDIS OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS

2. POES (K-N`) Instruments AVHRR HIRS SARR AMSU May 1998: The launch of NOAA-15 ushers in a new era in remote sensing… May 1998: The launch of NOAA-15 ushers in a new era in remote sensing… Courtesy of Paul Menzel

3. NOAA POLAR OPERATIONAL SATELLITES NOAA-15 (1930 LST; no AVHRR, no AMSU-A channels 11, 13) NOAA-16 (1430 LST; AMSU-A Problems?) NOAA-17 (2230 LST; Fully Functional)

4. ATOVS ATMOSPHERIC RADIOMETER SOUNDERS High-resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS); 20-channels @17km…..Clouds, clear-sky Temperature, Moisture, and Surface Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A); 15-channels @50km…..All-sky Temperature, TPW, Cloud Water, and Surface Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-B (AMSU-B); 5-channels @16km…..All-sky Moisture, and Surface Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR); 6-channels @1.0 km (LAC), 4.0 km (GAC)……Clouds, clear-sky Surface

5. POES Products Input for forecast weather models 3-D measurements of temperature and humidity Cloud imagery Sea surface temperature observations Snow and ice cover Vegetation index Aerosol observations Atmospheric ozone measurements Fire detection and monitoring Volcanic ash cloud tracking Hurricane FloydFires at Los Alamos Courtesy of Paul Menzel

7. Products from ATOVS Courtesy of Tony Reale Satellite vs. NWP departure fields help focus attention on important mesoscale features

8. CLOUDS AND MOISTURE

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10. 10 NOAA-15 polar orbiting satellite 3 channel composite view of hurricane Bonnie the morning of August 25

11. 11 Hurricane Bonnie’s warm core revealed in temperature anomaly cross section derived using NOAA-15 Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU) data

12. Direct Readout

13. DIRECT READOUT PROCESSING MORE TIMELY FULL DENSITY (ie, AVHRR “LAC”) INDEPENDENCE LOCAL INFLUENCES FEEDBACK TO NESDIS

14. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE APPLICATIONS NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION INITIALIZATION ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING CLIMATE

16. Ground Truth – Utilizing available RAOB Data Courtesy of Tony Reale

18. Drought in South America Most affected are Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, and Uruguay AVHRR data delineates areas of vegetation stress (Red areas) Data provided to USDA (Foreign Agriculture Service) Started in October 1999 and continues Courtesy of Jim Purdom

19. AMSU Hurricane Intensity Estimation AMSU (blue) / GOES (dashed red) relative viewing geometry Courtesy of Paul Menzel NOAA-15 AMSU-A  T(C)2332 UTC 11 Sep 99 GOES-8 IR 2315 UTC 11 Sep 99 “Hurricane Floyd” NOAA-15 AMSU-A  T(C)2332 UTC 11 Sep 99 GOES-8 IR 2315 UTC 11 Sep 99 “Hurricane Floyd”

20. Education and Training… Education and Training… Building bridges — transferring knowledge between scientific, academic, and operational communities Users Vendors Science Teams POES/ NPOESS

21. Turning the pages to a new chapter in remote sensing… Photo Courtesy of NOAA Photo Library