Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch

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Speaker 1
Well, thanks for joining. I’m not going to sing, but, you know, for satellite meteorologist, it’s the most wonderful time of the year. With, so our imagery from Goes 14 providing a preview of what’s going to happen when Goes-r is operational, either as goes east or goes west. So we’re in day. It’s Wednesday right now. We’re in day three right now.

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Speaker 1
I just wanted to show you this website. And there is a, you can jump down on the website, on this website to show, figure out where things are happening each day. So sometime later today, the, footprint for August 13th will show up. I know Dan and Tim are on the call, so maybe they can give you some advance information.

00:00:47:27 – 00:01:06:28
Speaker 1
And if you want to lobby, if there’s something particular going on in your WFO, for example, that you want one imagery and you can make a case for it all. I don’t want to flood Tim and Dan’s email inboxes, but you can add you can make a case for that. So first day was over the East Coast.

00:01:07:09 – 00:01:35:08
Speaker 1
Second day was also mostly over the East coast. Today we’re looking at the West Coast. So one of the things that’s kind of interesting today is the fog on the West Coast. And, of course there are fires ongoing out west as well. So the one minute imagery will be interesting to look for that one of the things the one minute imagery is helping with this time around to see aviation, Aviation Weather Center is having a winter and winter is having a summer experience.

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Speaker 1
Merritt experiment right now. So they’re kind of looking at the impact of one minute imagery on decision making for aviation. So there is a blog that they’re putting out there. So goes our blog spot. So some interesting reading there. That’s the case from Monday. To actually can I interrupt real quick and maybe in larger screen? My screen is as large as it gets right now.

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Speaker 1
Okay.

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Speaker 2
On our viewer, it only takes up a small portion of the screen. So I didn’t know if you had your windows maximized or not.

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Speaker 1
As it’s showing us my whole screen right now. I don’t know if you can.

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Speaker 3
Can you can you do a control plus to make the image just a little bigger? Perhaps, let’s see.

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Speaker 1
Control. You also may be.

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Speaker 2
Able to make to go to meaning viewer largest for the participants by maximizing the push the maximize button to.

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Speaker 1
Set control that helps us control plus does do something. So, there are places online where you can get the data. So I’ll just go over those quickly. So this URL shown in the web browser here is showing a, HTML5 driven viewer. You can click and zoom on this. So if you click zoom, it jumps around.

00:02:57:18 – 00:03:27:27
Speaker 1
But then you can drag things and zoom in on various locations. So let’s look at the, fog in Mendocino County. And it seems to be dissipating slowly. And it doesn’t seem to be that down to the San Francisco airport. So that’s one place to get it. Rams. This also has it, I would say what’s the what’s Dan Lindsay, what’s the best Google search to find that quickly.

00:03:28:03 – 00:03:53:17
Speaker 1
You can always enter Google I go goes 14. So and if you go to that website which is this one here, scroll down just a little bit. You will see where to get the data online. And one last place to get it is, for real Earth. So if you go to our software study, edu, and you close out the default things that show up, you’ll notice the one minute imagery here.

00:03:53:20 – 00:04:18:00
Speaker 1
And you can just drag it over and it’ll show up and you can it’s full resolution. So you can start clicking and zooming and looking at things and animating things. So just real quickly, thanks to, no, this just for allowing this to happen again. And, Dan, if you want to I know Dan supplies this via an LDM feed.

00:04:18:15 – 00:04:42:02
Speaker 1
So he would be the person to contact. If you want to get this into your A website to look at it. Of course it’s it’s jumping around. It might not be in your UFO every day. But it’s it’s awesome to look at for us convective development. Fog dissipation, fires, anything that is very rapidly changing.

00:04:42:04 – 00:05:05:01
Speaker 1
So it’s a, it’s a great temporal resolution as it goes 14 hours. So it’s, just awesome to look at, and it’s just great imagery to watch as well. So if you go to the various satellite blogs to, I’ll type in my favorite, there are some examples from the last two days, and they’ll probably be examples all of the next two weeks.

00:05:05:01 – 00:05:26:04
Speaker 1
So goes or goes. 14 is being shut off for this on the 21st. So it’s not a it’s not a long time of stress or imagery. But but there will be a lot of movies made and you can look at some, satellite imagery and maybe learn something about what you might be able to be observing in the not too distant future when Goes-r comes online.

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Speaker 1
So are there any questions?

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Speaker 3
So when I think I know the answer, but for those that don’t, when Goes-r goes in to check out, it will likely be in the same spot where it goes. 14 is right now.

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Speaker 1
Actually.

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Speaker 2
It’ll be in the other, spot that we have, which is normally at 90 degrees west or right now goes for teams at 105 West. But yes, it will be checked out at a center longitude.

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Speaker 1
Another question. What’s the latest in terms of the launch date for Goes-r?

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Speaker 2
So let me handle that one central being recorded. Goals are, as you know, was slated to be launched in in March of 2016, and that date has been released. So the easiest way to say it is it will be not be launched in March there. And discussions etc.. I am looking at something like more of a fall 2016 launch again, that would be still followed by a six month post-launch test period and a six month extended validation period.

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Speaker 1
And when you say it’s been released, that just means not. They’ve said we’re not going to be launching it on this date, and you can NASA could launch something else on that date if.

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Speaker 2
They wanted to correct. This is Dan Ill. A few more comments about the LDM feed for the one minute data. If any of the officers are interested. So it sounds like we have in office, Norman, you guys are central region, I believe. And so if you’re not pulling in the data yet and you’re interested, contact Matt Foster at Central Region headquarters.

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Speaker 2
He has instructions on the LDM feed and how to get things displaying in your ellipse to Buffalo. If you guys are interested, contact Dave Riddell at Eastern Region headquarters and then Amarillo. You guys are southern region, I guess. I think that the contact would be Paul Kirkwood for that. I haven’t confirmed that any Southern Region offices are pulling this in.

00:07:31:20 – 00:07:49:11
Speaker 2
So if you have any problems or and you’re interested in, you can’t, kidding. Get the information, let me know and we’ll we’ll get it figured out by the end. Yeah. This is Todd in Norman and we’re actually southern region, but we’re getting it through the H3 Yeti next door, the hazardous weather testbed. So it is in a whip through here.

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Speaker 2
Okay, my my bad on your on your regionality there. And I’m glad to hear that you’re getting it.

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Speaker 1
This is Amarillo. We’ll be looking into it. Thank you.

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Speaker 2
And were there any other offices besides those three that have called in?

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Speaker 2
Okay. Sounds like that’s everyone.

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Speaker 1
But since this is recorded, who would they contact in the western region?

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Speaker 2
I don’t know, that’s a good question, but we could get that figured out if there were somebody from Western Region.

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Speaker 1
And they would just contact you to figure that out.

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Speaker 2
Yeah, I could, I could put them in touch with who? Okay. Who that needs to be.

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Speaker 3
So Scott, for those that don’t know, that’s Dan Lindsay. Know what? That,

00:08:29:22 – 00:08:55:10
Speaker 2
Yeah. Dan. Lindsay. Lindsay. Scott, l mentioned this about the fact that the sectors move around. Yes. The first two days, Monday, Tuesday were East coast. Today, it’s West coast tomorrow. We haven’t decided yet. But essentially we we typically try to locate an area, where there’s some convection, not all the way. Some towns will focus on tropical storms, some another focus on fires, etc..

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Speaker 1
So let’s see what SPC is saying for tomorrow because that drives it sometimes, correct?

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Speaker 2
Yes, certainly. If there’s an a severe weather outbreak or something, then we would we would tend to to choose that. But I don’t think that’s going to happen tomorrow. Yeah.

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Speaker 1
Day two is pretty, pretty blasé tomorrow.

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Speaker 2
Yeah. And the other thing that comes into play, are various either, you know, testbed experiments like the, aviation one that Scott mentioned earlier. I think they were interested in Chicago tomorrow. NASA is also running a field experiment over Florida. So they’re interested in over Florida. So we might be able to sneak in a sector that covers the northern part of, you know, Florida and then, Chicago for the aviation.

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Speaker 2
But that’s the type of, discussion that we’re still having.

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Speaker 1
If there are no other questions or comments, this was designed to be a short explanation and, Yes. Scott. Yeah, yeah. Tony. Here, you want real fast. So can you just show again? That, for was it Google Earth, how you can go from the default setting and then find the,

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Speaker 2
Share a new tab one way? Scott, you could go from the main answers. So our page, I think we have a link from there. And if you scroll down just a little bit, one of the. Yeah. Right there, real Earth five bands so that.

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Speaker 1
Oh, okay.

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Speaker 2
So that by default, if you look on the left on this screen, there, you can see that the visible is checked and, and, if you scroll down a bit, then, longwave infrared is checked. So if you zoom in a little bit over the image, you can see that they’re actually looking at transparency of to.

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Speaker 2
So yep. So that just be the air and you can and that’s a transparency set. So that obviously or work day day and night we often show visible images because it’s got the higher spatial resolution. But of course we have this data over the night time as well.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. I think that was one, surprising findings from the,

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Speaker 2
Proving ground, assessment that we heard about in June that.

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Speaker 1
Some of the forecast shows maybe even on their own. We’re starting to look at the water vapor and the window channel.

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Speaker 2
And finding it to be, pretty useful as well. And, visible that, like I said, the default.

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Unknown
Thanks.

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Unknown
Oh, I.

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Speaker 1
Can’t do what I’m trying to do. So anyway. And again, you can just go to real Earth goddess if you don’t. We’re study edu and you can find it in the, in the layers. So it’s one of the preset layers. There’s a one minute folder.

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Speaker 2
And Scott, to answer your question from earlier, if you do a just a Google search for you can either do Ram branch or Rams just online. I’ll let you do that. Yeah. And then go there.

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Speaker 1
Goes 14.

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Speaker 2
Just to ramp this online. Okay. Yeah. I just click the main one.

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Speaker 1
And it comes up close.

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Speaker 2
And then in the left where it says goes west, goes east. Click that. And that’s how you get there okay. So it’s not maybe not. There’s probably a way to get directly there. But this is.

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Unknown
In my opinion the easiest. Yeah. And then if the advantage of this is if.

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Speaker 2
You look on the left, you see where the secretary is on a given day and the little preview tabs not on the left, I’m sorry. The images right. Scroll down a little bit. And and if you scroll down a little bit more, you see that there’s a couple of zoomed in sectors right. Over. And it looks like it’s usually a north sector and a south sector and the north sector is over the Oregon area, the south sector over Arizona to capture the monsoon.

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Speaker 3
And then and I was going to add that if you look, there’s a four week or there’s an archive with this. So if you missed a day, you can go back and look at your, previous days. And I imagine there’s the same sort of feature. Those are or the Gos SRS or. Sorry.

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Speaker 2
Yeah, yeah. Actually, Scott, if you can go to that, if you go to the main SSR page and then click on the all bands at full resolution. Well yeah. Here. Yeah. Yes. Okay. And so this one has a calendar function there. So for example if you click up there yeah you could go back a couple months and obviously.

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Speaker 2
Yep. There you go. Let’s go to June or yeah Brian May 26th. Perfect. So this has all the SRS. So data started in 2012. So the time period. So if you want to look at hurricane Sandy or California rimfire, some previous cases, that’s at least get a chance for a quick look. And again all the all the bands and again it’s got showed before you can I guess you could zoom in there on is that Louisiana down here for this case.

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Speaker 2
So again so that might be helpful for, for case studies.

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Speaker 1
Oops. This sometimes happened with this browser. But anyway so you don’t need to watch I zoom around but.

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Speaker 2
I would say it’s operator error, but.

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Speaker 1
Oh it’s done.

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Speaker 2
It okay. Browser error.

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Speaker 1
Here they are. There people here are aware of it and they’re working on that. Fixing that.

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Speaker 1
Any other comments or questions?

00:14:41:02 – 00:15:01:19
Speaker 1
Well I hope you’re all going to look at the data in the next, ten more days, something like that. But one last one for me. I heard you guys talking about the different types of events, and we’re moving. Well, in August. Anybody say anything about what the tropical outlook looks like? Over the next?

00:15:01:24 – 00:15:20:05
Speaker 2
I took a look at that. Tony. There’s there are two invests. One is very unlikely to form. It’s moving to the west. The other is south of Mexico. NHC is giving it a 20% chance of formation through 48 hours, a 90% chance within five days. So it sounds like they expect something to form, maybe Friday Saturday.

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Speaker 2
So we may focus on that area, in a few days. But it’s undecided right now.

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Speaker 1
Is the was it Hildegard? Hilda, is that storm too far west for Goes 14 to view at the moment or it’s.

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Speaker 2
Anything near Hawaii would be on the limb. Okay, it’s possible, but we probably wouldn’t focus on something that much on the limb right?

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Speaker 1
Well, at least there’s some hope. It sounds like.

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Speaker 2
Yeah, I think there’s a good chance Friday or Saturday of getting a formation there south of Mexico. NHC is interested in the use of it, especially in the formation process, as opposed to when the storm is already formed.

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Speaker 1
Right. All right. Okay.

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Speaker 1
Okay. Well, Dan, if you want to stop the recording.