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The 2010 GOES-R Proving Ground at the National Hurricane Center
Jack Beven 1 , Michael Brennan 1 , Mark DeMaria 2 , John Knaff 2 , Christopher Velden 3 and Jason
Dunion 4
(John.L.Beven@noaa.gov)
1 NOAA/NWS/NCEP National Hurricane Center, Miami, FL; 2 NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Fort
Collins, CO; 3 CIMSS/UW, Madison, WI; 4 University of Miami/CIMAS-NOAA/AOML/HRD,
Miami, FL
GOES-R is scheduled for launch in late 2015 and will contain a number of new instruments,
including the 16-channel Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) and the Geostationary Lightning
Mapper (GLM). The GOES-R Proving Ground was established to provide forecasters with
advance looks at GOES-R data and products using proxy information, and to obtain user
feedback for the product developers. Six products were chosen for demonstration at NHC during
most of the 2010 Hurricane Season (1 Aug to 30 Nov). Five of the six were ABI products, which
included the Hurricane Intensity Estimate (HIE), two Red-Green-Blue (RBG) products designed
to provide forecasters experience with image combinations, split window (10.8 and 12.0 µm)
infrared imagery for tracking low to mid-level dry air, and super-rapid scan operations imagery.
The sixth was a combined GLM and ABI product to predict rapid intensification using global
model fields, infrared imagery and lightning input. SEVIRI data from Meteosat and the imager
from the current GOES were used as proxies for the ABI and the ground-based Global Lightning
Dataset 360 (GLD-360) was used as a proxy for the GLM. Results from 2010 will be
summarized along with plans for a follow-on experiment during the 2011 Hurricane Season.
DISCLAIMER: The views, opinions, and findings in this report are those of the authors and
should not be construed as an official NOAA and/or U.S. Government position, policy, or
decision.
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