| RAMMB CIRA 2nd Quarter Report |
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In order to prepare for the launch of GOES-R, an upper-tropospheric analysis product is being created using current GOES ozone data and COSMIC soundings. Most of the work done this quarter focused on background reading on uses of ozone observations from satellite. Some work with the COSMIC data was done for 20-21 December 2006, the Colorado snowstorm case chosen for code development. Figure 1 shows the time of the COSMIC soundings for 20 December over the United States and surrounding areas. (J. Dostalek)
Figure 1.
Work continues on the development of GOES-R ABI severe weather products. A poster was presented at the GOES User's Conference at the 2008 AMS Annual meeting in New Orleans entitled "Development of Severe Weather Products for the GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imager," by Lindsey, Hillger and Grasso. (D. Lindsey)
A standard program that will generate simulated McIDAS AREA files from model-output data has been created. There seems to be an increasing need for simulated imagery produced from RAMS model output at CIRA, so software was written to create IR imagery both for the current GOES Imager and for future GOES-R ABI. The program has already been used for numerous simulations, both for Algorithm Working Group research and other studies involved with simulated imagery from model output. (D. Hillger, D. Lindsey)