Science Experiments supported by the NASA-GSFC GOES server

last update 5 August 2005

It is a well-known fact that NOAA uses GOES satellites to continuously monitor weather conditions in the western hemisphere, especially unpredictable severe storms. In addition, Goddard scientists in NASA's Earth Science Enterprise use GOES data to support research into atmospheric processes that determine weather and climate.

Pictures from the GOES Imager are used to monitor the rapidly changing aspects of clouds such as height, thickness, cloudtop temperature, and winds. Scientists in Goddard's Laboratory for Atmospheres use these images during field campaigns in the following ways:

Chris Kummerow uses GOES images to set the scene for tropical rainfall measurements by the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM).

Andrew Negri uses cloudtop temperatures to infer rainfall over Brazil, calibrated using satellite microwave-based rain estimates from the Goddard Profiling Technique (GPROF).

Gerry Heymsfield uses GOES images to study changes in the rainfall process over the deforested regions of the Amazon.

Fritz Hasler uses a massively parallel processor to compute winds for every pixel in the scene of special 1-minute interval GOES images of hurricane Luis, generating an amazing quarter-million wind vectors per minute.

Anne Thompson uses images of the North Atlantic to study the transport of aircraft emissions in the international flight corridor to Europe.

Gyula Molnar uses GOES images to measure the diurnal cycle of marine stratus clouds in the tropical and subtropical Pacific during the ElNino/La Nina climate fluctuations during the mid-1990's.

Yoram Kaufman uses GOES images of Brazil to support studies of biomass burning and aerosol transport, such as during the Smoke/Sulfate Clouds and Radiation experiment (SCAR-B) campaign in 1995.

David Starr, Pat Minnis, William Smith and a host of other NASA scientists used GOES images to observe the role of aircraft contrails in cirrus formation during the SUbsonic Contrail and Cloud Effects Special Study (SUCCESS) in 1996.

David Starr and a host of other scientists used GOES images to observe sub-tropical cirrus clouds during the CRYSTAL-FACE experiment over southern Florida and the surrounding oceans in July 2002.

Research and Applications using GOES data from NASA-GSFC

At the National Severe Storm Laboratory, we conduct a series of activities involving Central and South America climate and meteorology research project from the office of global programs. Since May 2002 we have been downloading the satellite VIS and IR4 imagery (every 30 minutes) corresponding to peru, brazil, argentina, Galapagos, caribbean, and Fulldisk (every 3 hours), from your website. We have created a Java routine that automatically download the information in the original format (tiff) and then it convert the information to jpeg format that saves us some hard drive space. We use this information to make analysis of the cloud frequency fields, imagery animations and other climatological aspects of great value for the region.
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John F. Mejia
Research Affiliate
NOAA/NSSL/CIMMS
john.mejia@noaa.gov
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TROCCINOX in Brazil Jan-Feb 2004
We are currently looking for satellite images for the aircraft campaign TROCCINOX that will take place next year in Brazil. We then will need satellite images within a small time lag (below 30 minutes) for the nowcasting of deep convective clouds and there cloud top temperature in the region of Sao Paulo. Is there any possibility to get images or raw data so fast?
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Thierry Corti
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science
Hoenggerberg HPP L10
CH-8093 Zuerich, Switzerland
tel: +41 1 633 40 63
fax: +41 1 633 10 58
tcorti@iac.umnw.ethz.ch
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The EOS Terra (formerly known as AM-1) satellite will use a test site around the USDA Beltsville, roughly 10 km by 10 km including GSFC. Our objective is to validate MODIS/MISR land surface directional reflectance and albedo products. This project is funded by the EOS-AM validation program. I am also interested in land surface temperature retrieval. We would like to investigate the durinal cycle of the surface albedo and temperature using GOES data.
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Shunlin Liang, Ph.D, Assistant Professor
Department of Geography     sliang@geog.umd.edu
University of Maryland      (301)-405-4556 (Voice)
College Park, MD 20742      (301)-314-9299   (Fax)
URL: http://www.glue.umd.edu/~sliang
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The Department of Atmospheric Science at the University of Wyoming uses GOES-WEST images while studying turbulence and icing at the Junneau AK airport.
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Larry Oolman
Department of Atmospheric Science
University of Wyoming
ldoolman@uwyo.edu
Phone: 1-307-766-3245
Fax: 1-307-766-2635 
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Cloud studies using GOES 8/10 and the ESA GOME instrument.

Dr. James F. Gleason
NASA/GSFC, Code 916, Greenbelt, Md 20771
phone: (301) 614-6036
fax: (301) 614-5903
e-mail: gleason@redwind.gsfc.nasa.gov

Satellite Weather Information for Stratospheric Science (SWISS) provides and interprets cloud imagery for NASA's stratospheric aircraft sampling programs.

Name                                  Dr. Leonhard Pfister
  Work Address                        NASA Ames Research Center 
                                      MS 245-5
  Work Phone                          +1 650-604-3183
  E-Mail Address                      pfister@telsci.arc.nasa.gov 
  Work Room                           Building: 245, Room: 236

TRMM-LBA experiment, with GOES validation over the Amazon basin in January-February 1999, Brazil sector data archived by Gerry Heymsfield.

  Permanent email address:  Gerald.M.Heymsfield.1@gsfc.nasa.gov
  Actual email mailbox:     heymsfield@carmen.gsfc.nasa.gov
  Business phone:           +1 301 614-6369
  Fax number:               +1 301 614-5492
  Location:                 Building 33 Room A405
  Business address:         NASA 
                            Goddard Space Flight Center 
                            Mailstop 912.0 
                            Greenbelt, MD 20771
  Organization: 912.0, Employer: NASA

Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment II (SAGE-2) validation over the arctic.

Leonhard Pfister
  StreetAddress    Building: 245, Room: 236
  PostalAddress    NASA Ames Research Center, MS 245-5
  TelephoneNumber  +1 650-604-3183
  Mail             pfister@telsci.arc.nasa.gov
  RoomNumber       Building: 245, Room: 236
  UserClass        Organization: SGG, Employer: NASA

Convection And Moisture EXperiment (CAMEX), GOES validation over the Mississippi Basin and Gulf of Mexico, with raw GOES data archived in the GSFC DAAC.

Chris Kummerow
  Permanent email address:  Christian.D.Kummerow.1@gsfc.nasa.gov
  Actual email mailbox:     kummerow@audry.gsfc.nasa.gov
  Business phone:           +1 301 614-6313
  Fax number:               +1 301 614-5492
  Location:                 Building 33 Room C413
  Business address:         NASA 
                            Goddard Space Flight Center 
                            Mailstop 912.0 
                            Greenbelt, MD 20771
  Organization: 912.0, Employer: NASA

SASS Ozone and Nitrogen Oxide Experiment (SONEX) over the North Atlantic

Permanent email address:   Anne.M.Thompson.1@gsfc.nasa.gov
  Actual email mailbox:    thompson@gator1.gsfc.nasa.gov
  Business Phone:          +1 301 286-2629
  Fax Number:              +1 301 286-1754
  Location:                Building 21 Room 264
  Business Address:        NASA 
                           Goddard Space Flight Center 
                           Mailstop 916.0 
                           Greenbelt, MD 20771
  Organization: 916.0, Employer: NASA

Loiusiana Coastal Wetlands. The study purpose is to map highly ephemeral agricultural field flooding (<1-3 days) and link these rapid flood changes to stopover habitat use by waterfowl. Our goal is to create a nearly daily coverage (high temporal resolution )of georeferenced and calibrated GOES Imager data. These combined with lower temporal but higher spatial resolution ASTER image data would allow us to detect and map the dynamics of rice field cultivation. The study is critical to the management of stopover habitat for migrating waterfowl (e.g., shorebirds). Increasingly, because of natural habitat losses and conversion, resources managers are forced to work with farmers to provide temporary habitat. This has led to the need to manage rapidly changing migratory birds with highly transforming and changing cultural features, e.g., the practices associated with rice farming.
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Amina Rangoonwala
Johnson Controls World Services
USGS National Wetland Research Center
Lafayette, LA 70506
Phone # 337 266 8558
Fax         337 266 8616
e-mail     amina_rangoonwala@usgs.gov
 
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Louisiana Coastal Wetlands Planning Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA), with GOES observations of the Gulf Coast.

Scott Wilson
USGS
National Wetlands Research Center
700 Cajundome Blvd.
Lafayette, LA 70506

scott_wilson@usgs.gov
(318)266-8644

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Jacksonville FL, using the latest GOES observations of the entire East Coast. The images are used for both Emergency Operations and also Water Management decision support for Florida and Puerto Rico.
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Andrew E. Geller

Hydraulic Engineer
Water Control Data System Manager
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Jacksonville, Florida

(904) 232 - 2100 Voice
(904) 232 - 2466 Fax

e-mail andrew.e.geller@saj02.usace.army.mil
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The Los Alamos National Laboratory downloads Goes-East and Goes-West data for the CONUS sector, full-resolution, all channels. This supports their work with the Los Alamos Sferic Array (LASA) and the FORTE satellite. The use the GOES IR4 (10.7 micron) imagery to locate very high cloud tops as revealed by their inferred low (< -60 Celsius) brightness temperature.
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Abram R. ("Abe") Jacobson
FORTE Project Leader
ajacobson@lanl.gov

Space and Atmospheric Sciences Group (NIS-1)
Mail Stop D466
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545

phone (505)667-9656
fax (505)665-7395
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Solar Eclipse in Aruba, late February 1996
Eclipses Home Page

Name:    Fred Espenak                   Planetary Systems Branch, Code 693
e-mail:  u32fe@lepvax.gsfc.nasa.gov     NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Voice:   301-286-5333                   Greenbelt, MD 20771
FAX:     301-286-0212                   USA
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cloud climatology by
     Michael L. Branick
     National Weather Service Forecast Office 
     1200 Westheimer Drive Room 101
     Norman, OK 73069
     
     Desk: (405) 579-0733
     Fax: (405) 366-6528
     e-mail: mbranick@nsslgate.nssl.uoknor.edu

Radiances over DOE's ARM site in Kansas

Albert Arking 
Johns Hopkins University
arking@climate.gsfc.nasa.gov

Eyewall vortices in hurricanes
Check out the movies.

Joanne Simpson and Fritz Hasler 
(with Stacey Stewart and Peter Black, respectively)
NASA-GSFC Code 912 
Mesoscale Processes and Precipitation 
Laboratory for Atmospheres 
Greenbelt, MD 20771 
301-286-9179 
negri@agnes.gsfc.nasa.gov

Rainfall estimates by the TRMM satellite
Brazil, and Argentina, with data being constantly archived by Andy Negri.

  Permanent email address:  Andrew.J.Negri.1@gsfc.nasa.gov
  Actual email mailbox:     negri@erin.gsfc.nasa.gov
  Business phone:           +1 301 614-6299
  Fax number:               +1 301 614-5492
  Location:                 Building 33 Room C408
  Business address:         NASA 
                            Goddard Space Flight Center 
                            Mailstop 912.0 
                            Greenbelt, MD 20771
  Organization: 912.0, Employer: NASA

Two-GOES Stereo
Geometrical determination of cloud heights for hurricanes

Fritz Hasler 
NASA-GSFC Code 912 
Mesoscale Processes and Precipitation 
Laboratory for Atmospheres 
Greenbelt, MD 20771 
301-286-9179 
hasler@agnes.gsfc.nasa.gov

SCAR aerosol observations
Brazil forest, and archived to Unitree tapes for July-September 1995.

Yoram Kaufman 
NASA-GSFC Code 913 
Climate and Radiation 
Laboratory for Atmospheres 
Greenbelt, MD 20771 
301-286-4866 
kaufman@climate.gsfc.nasa.gov

NSF cloud and precipitation experiment
Orlando, Florida, July 1 to August 15

Harry Ochs 
Office of Cloud and Precipitation Research 
Illinois State Water Survey 
University of Illinois 
Urbana-Champaign, IL 
217-333-4964 
h-ochs@uiuc.edu

UCAR and NSF satellite meteorology in applied research, Florida on a daily basis

Paul Ruscher 
Meteorology Dept. 
Florida State University 
Tallahassee, FL 
... 
ruscher@huey.met.fsu.edu

SPRITES and JETS, high-altitude lightning
- Panama, July-August 1995
- Florida, July 1995
- Peru, February 26 to March 7, 1995
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Dave Sentman 
University of Alaska 
907-474-6442 
sentman@gi.alaska.edu
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Other "Americans" use the GOES data from NASA-GSFC

Convective rainfall in Brazil using the 6.7 micron water vapor channel

Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:12:55 -0300
From: Henri Laurent 
To: Dennis.F.Chesters@gsfc.nasa.gov
Subject: Re: images GOES WV TIFF

Laurent H., L. A. T. Machado, C. A. Morales and L. Durieux, 2002.
Characteristics of the Amazonian mesoscale convective systems observed
from satellite and radar during the WETAMC/LBA experiment. J. Geophys.
Res., in press.

Machado L. A. T., H. Laurent and A. A. Lima, 2002. The diurnal march of
the convection observed during TRMM-WET AMC/LBA. J. Geophys. Res., in
press.

Henri Laurent - IRD
CTA
IAE-ACA
12228-904 Sao Jose dos Campos/SP
Brasil
Tel : +55 12 3947 4548
fax : +55 12 3947 4551

Coast fog in Chile.

From: "Carlos Sierralta J." 
To: Dennis.F.Chesters@nasa.gov
Reply-To: csierral@puc.cl;, csierral@vtr.net
Subject: Fog studies using goes imagery
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 19:44:22 GMT

Hi, I«m a Chilean student. I«m researching th espatial and temporal behaviour of coastal fogs in Northern Chile with goes imagery.

Carlos Sierralta Jorquera.
pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
csierral@puc.cl

Storm watches and warnings in Peru.

From: alevy@AMERICATV.com.pe
To: Dennis.F.Chesters@nasa.gov
Subject: WHY WE NEED THE GOES-8 IMAGERY
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 10:36:47 -0500

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR PROMPT REPLY MISTER CHESTERS.

I WANT YOU TO KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT BOTH, OUR INTEREST AND THE USE WE GIVE TO 
THE GOES-8 IMAGERY.

I PERSONALLY CONDUCT THE ONLY TV WEATHER SHOW IN PERU. OUR NETWORK - AMERICA TV 
- THE LARGEST IN THE COUNTRY, ALSO PROVIDES WEATHER FORECASTS AND PRECIPITATION 
OUTLOOKS TO SEVERAL MINOR PLACES ALONG THE EASTERN ANDEAN FOOTHILLS WHERE NEW 
HIGHWAYS ARE CONQUERING NEW AREAS FOR THE ECONOMY.

ALTHOUGH WE CANNOT AFFORD A GOES DOWNLINK STATION, THE USE OF THE IMAGERY 
PROVIDED IN THE WEB,PLUS THE GOES.NAV SOFTWARE THAT WE RAN HERE ARE VERY GOOD 
ELEMENTS TO TRACK THE STORMS ALONG THE ABOVE MENTIONED AREA.

IT IS QUITE CRITICAL TO KNOW IN ADVANCE WHAT IS GOING ON BECAUSE THE FLASH 
FLOODS THAT HAPPEN THERE DUE TO THE STORMS USUALLY COMPROMISE HUMAN LIVES AND 
EXPENSIVE CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY.

SO, IF THERE IS A WAY - AN FTP OR HTTP ADDRESS - WHERE WE CAN OBTAIN CONTINUOUS 
GOES-8 COVERAGE. PLEASE LET US KNOW.YOU WILL BE SERVING THIS LOVELY COUNTRY.

ONCE AGAIN. THANK YOU VERY MUCH...

ABRAHAM LEVY

I'm a chilean student, doing my Geography Licenciature memory with GOES Images for the identification of fog.
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Kay J.Bergamini Ladr—n de Guevara
P. Universidad Cat—lica de Chile
kbergani@puc.cl
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Mail to:

Dennis.F.Chesters@nasa.gov
GOES Project

Science Experiments supported by the NASA-GSFC GOES server last update 5 August 2005

Research and Applications using GOES data from NASA-GSFC

Other "Americans" use the GOES data from NASA-GSFC

Science Experiments supported by the NASA-GSFC GOES server

last update 5 August 2005