{"id":217,"date":"2010-11-15T15:02:23","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T21:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/visit\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/15\/synthetic-cloud-top-heights\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T09:06:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:06:29","slug":"synthetic-cloud-top-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/2010\/11\/15\/synthetic-cloud-top-heights\/","title":{"rendered":"Synthetic Cloud Top Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Louie Grasso, Dan Lindsey, Jeff Braun<\/p>\n<p>Cloud tops heights, an important forecast parameter, is being generated from the NSSL 4km WRF-ARW real-time run.\u00a0 At CIRA we have been generating synthetic GOES-R imagery from this real-time model since spring 2010.\u00a0 Based on information and contact at the 14th Great Divide Workshop in\u00a0Billings, MT,\u00a0we have begun to generate cloud top height products from the real-time model.\u00a0 The two images below\u00a0\u00a0indicate the initial step in this direction.\u00a0 Figure\u00a01 shows a 12 hour forecasted synthetic GOES-R brightness temperature image at 10.35 um.\u00a0 Similarly, figure 2 shows the corresponding cloud top heights. \u00a0These images\u00a0are valid at 12Z 11\/15\/2010.\u00a0 The next step (to come later) is to get this product into an AWIPS\u00a0friendly format and then follow this with forecast cloud base height and cloud layer information.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>We encourage readers to give us feedback<\/strong><em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>This will allow us to improve these products before they are put into AWIPS.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/11\/1035.gif\" title=\"Color Temps\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/11\/1035.gif\" alt=\"Color Temps\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Figure 1 &#8211; Synthetic GOES-R 10.35 um image (temperatures &#8211; deg K) valid at 12Z 11\/15\/2010<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/11\/cloud_top.gif\" title=\"Cloud Heights\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/11\/cloud_top.gif\" alt=\"Cloud Heights\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Figure\u00a02 &#8211; Synthetic GOES-R 10.35 um image (heights &#8211; meters MSL) valid at 12Z 11\/15\/2010<\/em><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Louie Grasso, Dan Lindsey, Jeff Braun Cloud tops heights, an important forecast parameter, is being generated from the NSSL 4km WRF-ARW real-time run.\u00a0 At CIRA we have been generating synthetic GOES-R imagery from this real-time model since spring 2010.\u00a0 Based on information and contact at the 14th Great Divide Workshop in\u00a0Billings, MT,\u00a0we have begun <a href=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/2010\/11\/15\/synthetic-cloud-top-heights\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,15,19,28],"tags":[88,136,158,241],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-r","category-goes-r-proving-ground","category-miscellaneous","category-satellites","tag-cloud-top-heights","tag-goes-r","tag-imagery","tag-synthetic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6163,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/6163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}