Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch

GeoRing ProxyVis Satellite Imagery

GeoRing ProxyVis imagery, a nighttime proxy for visible imagery, is a multispectral product that combines several IR channels to mimic visible imagery at night. ProxyVis has been used operationally at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) since 2018. ProxyVis significantly increased the ability of forecasters to track low level clouds over the ocean at night, and in many cases can be used as a nighttime replacement for visible imagery.

ProxyVis imagery is generated in real-time:

• locally at CIRA
  • SLIDER – https://rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu/ for GOES-16, GOES-17, GOES-18 (Non Operational), Himawari, Meteosat-11, and Meteosat-9
  • RAMSDIS Tropical Imagery https://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/ramsdis/online/tropical-new.asp
• operationally
  • used at NHC, OPC, WPC  and other NWS centers via TOWR-S ISATSS.
  • being evaluated for operational use at JTWC
  • in ATCF via NRL GeoIPS, available to operational users at NHC, CPHC, JTWC

The ProxyVis and GeoProxyVis source code is available via github: https://github.com/galina-cira/ProxyVis

Multi-Satellite ProxyVis Composite

The ProxyVis multisatellite composite uses data from five geostationary satellites, including GOES-18, GOES-16, Meteosat-10, Meteosat-11, and Himawari-9.

Latest 5-Satellite GeoProxyVis Composite

Latest 24-hour Animated Loop of the Global 5-Satellite GeoProxyVis Composite

Project Team Members

• Galina Chirokova (CIRA/CSU, Galina.Chirokova@colostate.edu)
• John Knaff (NOAA/NESDIS)
• Robert DeMaria (CIRA/CSU)
• Alan Brammer (CIRA/CSU)
• Mark DeMaria (CIRA/CSU, formerly NOAA/NESDIS and NOAA/NHC)
• Debra Molenar (CIRA/CSU)
• Coleman McClelland (CIRA/CSU)
• Joe Zajic (TOWR-S)
• Lee Byerly (TOWR-S)
• Melinda Surratt (NRL)
• Buck Sampson (NRL)
• Monica Bozeman (NCEP)
• Michael Brennan (NHC)
• Stephanie Stevenson (NHC)
• Jack Beven (NHC)
• Eric Blake (NHC)
• James Darlow (JTWC)

References

Chirokova, G., DeMaria, R., and Brammer, A. 2024: ProxyVis and GeoProxyVis Imagery for Geostationary Satellite Data. Zenodo. https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.12557264

Chirokova, G., J. A. Knaff, M. J. Brennan, R. T. DeMaria, M. Bozeman, S. N. Stevenson, J. L. Beven, E. S. Blake, A. Brammer, J. W. Darlow, M. DeMaria, S. D. Miller, C. J. Slocum, Debra Molenar, and D. W. Hillger, 2023: ProxyVis—A Proxy for Nighttime Visible Imagery Applicable to Geostationary Satellite Observations. Wea. Forecasting, 38, 2527–2550, https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-23-0038.1.

Herndon D., S. Langlade and Co-Authors, 2022: IWTC-10 Report, Topic 1: Remote Sensing for tropical cyclones analysis. 10th International Workshop on Tropical Cyclones (IWTC-10), 5-9 December 2022, Bali, Indonesia

Chirokova G. and Co-Authors, 2022: GeoRing ProxyVis Satellite Imagery: Turning Night Into Day With Machine Learning. NOAA/NASA ROSES Science Review, 12-13 October 2022, College Park, MD.

Chirokova G., 2022: GeoRing ProxyVis Satellite Imagery Use in NWS Operationa. SBC Session 111, 25 August 2022

Chirokova G. and D. Herndon, 2022: Use of Satellite Data for Operational Tropical Cyclone Analysis and Forecasting. 2022 AMS SatMOC Virtual Short Course, 30 June 2022.

Chirokova G., M. DeMaria, J. Knaff, R. DeMaria, D. Molenar, A. Brammer, S. D. Miller, M. Surratt, C. R. Sampson, J. A. Zajic, L. Byerle, J. L. Beven, S. N. Stevenson, E. S. Blake, and J. Darlow, 2022: New Satellite Products for Operational Tropical Cyclone Forecasting: GOES/Himawari ProxyVisible Imagery and Derived Motion Winds Diagnostics, and JPSS VIIRS and Microwave Sounders Applications. 35th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, 9-13 May 2022, New Orleans, LA

Chirokova G., Knaff J., Brennan M. J, Lindsey D.T, Miller S.D, DeMaria R.T, Hillger D.W, and D.A. Molenar, 2019. ProxyVisible Imagery and Beyond. AMS 2019 Joint Satellite Conference, 28 September – 04 October 2019, Boston, MA.

Chirokova G., J. A. Knaff and J. L. Beven, 2018: ProxyVisible Satellite Imagery.  98 AMS Annual Meeting, 7- 11 January 2018. Austin, TX.