WMO Coordination Group on Satellite Data Requirements for Region III and IV Sept 5-8, 2016 Willemstad, Curaçao

WMO Coordination Group on Satellite Data Requirements for Region III and IV Sept 5-8, 2016 Willemstad, Curaçao

1. Current Satellite Reception 2. Preparation for Next-Gen GOES-R JPSS 3. Satellite Data Applications 4. Capacity Building and Training 5. Questions Environment and Climate Change Canada 2

MSC Satellite Reception Network 10 Geostationary (GOES) 4 Polar Orbiting (POES) 1 EUMETCAST Americas / (Geonetcast) Operational data exchange within WMO global network GOES POES Vancouver Resolute Edmonton Ottawa Toronto CMC (3) NOAA Gander Dartmouth Environment and Climate Change Canada 3

o o o Receives data broadcast from NOAA s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) o Imager and sounder radiances o Downlink data rate 2.11 Mbps o Downlink frequency 1685.7 MHz 6 GOES-E, 4 GOES-W stations o Regional products o CMC national backup Ground Station Infrastructure o 5.0 m fixed-direction antennas o Receiver, bit-synch, frame-sync and processing workstation provided by Global Image / Info-Electronics Systems Environment and Climate Change Canada 4

Stations located in: Gander, Nfld Edmonton & Stony Plain, Alberta Resolute Bay, Nunavut Satellites Tracked L-Band: NOAA-15, 18, 19, METOP-A,B X-Band: Terra, Aqua, NPP JPSS-1 Ready Ground Station Infrastructure SeaSpace Corp Systems (2.4 m X/L antennas, Quorum receivers, Terascan software for acquisition & processing) Environment and Climate Change Canada 5

Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Polar orbiters are very important for Canada 2 HRPT stations already X- band and will upgrade 1 more in 2017 Continued improvement in area of product generation, use Environment and Climate Change Canada 6

Established a Project Board to engage at Director level Identified Leads for 4 major project components Environment and Climate Change Canada 7

Outreach and surveys to establish user needs and perspectives Identified priority products overall and by service Environment and Climate Change Canada 8

Establishing data feeds from three access points: GRB Direct Readout PDA Internet (NOAA s Product Distribution and Access) NOAAPort (National Weather Service Space-Based Network) Environment and Climate Change Canada 9

Phase 1 (2016): Upgrade 2 existing spare antennas Phase 2 (2017): Upgrade or new additional antenna Phase 3 (2018): End-state of 4 antenna at 2 sites Centralized processing (+ backup) with intranet distribution to regional storm prediction centres Environment and Climate Change Canada 10

Established PDA account with NOAA Currently testing latencies pulling data from PDA Processing GOES-R L1b synthetic data Using Pytroll software Expect PDA to be a primary source for L2+ and backup to GRB for L1b Environment and Climate Change Canada 11

Visible (0.64u) 21292 x 21292 pixels (0.5km) IR (10.35u) 5323 x 5323 pixels (2.0km) Environment and Climate Change Canada 12

NINJO is MSC s meteorological workstation Assessing performance impact from high volume from GOES-R Environment and Climate Change Canada 13

Currently synthetic GOES-R data flowing through NOAAPort (satellite based communication) Working to access and then decode and process this data stream Tile based (25 tiles for CONUS @ full resolution, 4 tiles for FD @ 6km resolution) Environment and Climate Change Canada 14

Public, Marine, Aviation Forecasting Numerical Weather Prediction Sea Ice monitoring (Canadian Ice Service) Volcanic ash monitoring Weather.gc.ca satellite pages + Non-real time research and development Environment and Climate Change Canada 15

Integrated NowCasting System (INCS) Observations METAR, Radar Lightning, Satellite Very short range Forecast System NWP - Stat Models POP_FROM_RDPS RADAR_INCS Rules Radar echos (dbz) Pop from Radar Prob Lightning Lightning Nowcasti ng Hourly MATRICES Datamart INCS Temporal Series Scribe Nowcast Weather Elements (Météocode) The next generation of GOES satellite set of data and products will allow to move the INCS system from a point forecast to a gridded forecast system. Performance of INCS is expected to increase especially where surface observations are not available. Satellite data and products that should be used: HR Cloud Mask HR Cloud Types (low clouds & visibility) Probability of Precipitation Convective Initiation Convective Rainfall Rate and PoP Motion vector Lightning mapping Environment and Climate Change Canada 16

Plan for GOES-R Knowledge component (Online) Intranet: Material Cases Learning activities Assessments Training tracking Material from : COMET MOIP notes Internal experts VISIT Application component (Regional workshops) : Led by regional satellite and training focal points Weather case exercises NinJo Case Capture GOES-R post-launch, preoperational data GOES-14 1-minute imagery Himawari imagery Competency based Emulate operational ADP processes Defined learning outcomes Environment and Climate Change Canada 17

Timeline for getting users ready for GOES-R Completed Training plan draft May 2016 Attendance at 3 rd NOAA Satellite Proving Ground Meeting Summer - Fall 2016 Development of Knowledge component materials Fall Winter 2016-2017 Informationa l Teasers Winter Spring 2017 Capture of GOES-R data for weather cases Spring 2017 Finalizing of weather cases and training schedule organized Spring Summer 2017 Just in time training before operational implementati on of GOES-R data Environment and Climate Change Canada 18

GOES-R: East or West? Environment and Climate Change Canada 19