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Sheldon Kusselson visited the National Weather Service/NCEP Weather Prediction Center (WPC) International Desk in College Park, Maryland on 4 February 2025 and provided four hours of satellite training and applications of NOAA and CIRA moisture products to four forecasters and their supervisor. Some of the CIRA products shown were Advected Total Precipitable Water and Advected Layer Precipitable Water (ALPW) that will become operational in NWS AWIPS workstations this month and March, respectively. Also shown were current experimental CIRA products like ALPW Layer Vapor Transport (LVT) and Percentile along with operational NOAA/NESDIS Ensemble Tropical Rainfall Potential (eTRaP) and Blended Rain Rate products that were originally developed by CIRA researchers. One of the many highlights was showing CIRA SLIDER with some of these moisture products overlaid on the geostationary satellite imagery for added help in the analysis of hazardous weather systems. Sheldon also answered many satellite product and application questions that the group asked. The areas of the world with the most interest to the International group are from Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean southward through South America.
(POC S. Kusselson, sheldon.kusselson@colostate.edu). Funding:JPSS PGRR