Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch

Significant Hazards Satellite Applications Short Course

These are links for the 2019 Joint Satellite Conference Short Course (29 September 2019) Located at The Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel.

Agenda. All times are Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

• Video recordings of short course can be accessed HERE.

800am: Introduction and Summary of Planned Activities

• Introduction
• Presentations/Documents (Spanish versions)

815am: Overview of GOES-R, JPSS and EUMETSAT Operational Environmental Satellite Systems

• GOES Program Lecture
• JPSS Program Lecture
• EUMETSAT Program Lecture

915am: Monitoring Wildfires and their impact on East Coast Air Quality

• Lecture
• (Spanish)
• Datalore Instructions
• Jupyter Hub – WebLink
• Activity 1 – Reference Document
• Activity 1 – Reference Slides (Spanish)
• Activity 2 – Reference Document
• Activity 2 and 3 – Reference Slides (Spanish)

1015am: Coffee Break

1045am: Using Satellites to Nowcast Convection over South America

• Lecture

1145am: Lunch Break

1245pm: Satellite-based Flood Mapping to improve Flood Forecasting and Mitigation

• ‘Satellite Flood Mapping’ Lecture
• ‘Satellite Flood Mapping’ Lecture (Spanish)

145pm: Coffee Break

215pm: Monitoring the Saharan Air Layer Using Satellite Applications

• NUCAPS tutorial
• SAL Tutorial
• SAL Tutorial (Spanish)
• NUCAPS Global Map
• ‘Monitoring SAL with GOES-16’ Lecture
• ‘Monitoring SAL With GOES-16’ Lecture (Spanish)

315pm: Training Resources – Q & A – Course Evaluation

• Lecture (Spanish)
• Satellite Foundational Course for GOES (SatFC-G) Preview Link
• Satellite Foundational Course for JPSS (SatFC-J) Preview Link
• GOES/JPSS Quick Guides and Quick Briefs
• COMET GOES-16/JPSS Case Exercises: Rhea, Oklahoma Grassland Fire and Hurricane Harvey
• FDTD GOES Application Webinars
• GOES-R Series Multilingual Training Resources
• EUMETRAIN
• COMET Modules: Rapid Scan Applications and Benefits (METEOSAT) and Land Surface Analysis, Intro to EUMETSAT LSA-SAF Products
• COMET Modules: Frontal Diagnosis-1 and Frontal Diagnosis-2
• CIRA activities with WMO-CGMS Virtual Lab
• WMO – CGMS Virtual Lab
• Short Course Evaluation – Weblink

330pm: End of Course