EOS Imagery and Products for NWS Forecast Offices
Real-time
MODIS
and
AMSR-E
Level 1B imagery
and Level 2 products from the Terra and Aqua Earth Observing System satellites are
available from a number of direct broadcast ground stations throughout the world.
The SPoRT program obtains this data from the University of Wisconsin (UW) and
the University of South Florida 's (USF) direct broadcast stations and provides
imagery and selected products to several NWS Forecast Offices. The
data and products
provided to each office vary based on their needs and forecast
problems. SPoRT is currently working to provide the Southern Region (SR) Headquarters office with a suite of SPoRT products for dissemination to all 32 WFOs in the region. Typical products provided to the WFOs include high resolution MODIS imagery and color composites, atmospheric parameters such as TPW, cloud and stability information, and surface parameters such as LST and SST. AMSR-E products include rain rate and convective fraction, TPW and selected ocean parameters.
In addition to the products sent to the various NWS offices, several other EOS products are viewed or generated by SPoRT in real-time. MODIS SST fields provided by the USF with the EOS science team algorithm is also used to generate composite sea surface temperature products. The compositing procedure eliminates clouds not detected by the cloud mask and maintains the accuracy of the real SSTs. These products are used in various assimilation studies and sent to several WFOs.
Ocean color composites are also generated.
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