Adapting Satellite Soundings for Operational Forecasting within the Hazardous Weather Testbed

In this paper, we describe how researchers and weather forecasters work together to make satellite sounding data sets more useful in severe weather forecasting applications through participation in National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT) and JPSS Prov...

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Veröffentlicht in:Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2020-03, Vol.12 (5), p.886
Hauptverfasser: Esmaili, Rebekah B., Smith, Nadia, Berndt, Emily B., Dostalek, John F., Kahn, Brian H., White, Kristopher, Barnet, Christopher D., Sjoberg, William, Goldberg, Mitchell
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Zusammenfassung:In this paper, we describe how researchers and weather forecasters work together to make satellite sounding data sets more useful in severe weather forecasting applications through participation in National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT) and JPSS Proving Ground and Risk Reduction (PGRR) program. The HWT provides a forum for collaboration to improve products ahead of widespread operational deployment. We found that the utilization of the NOAA-Unique Combined Atmospheric Processing System (NUCAPS) soundings was improved when the product developer and forecaster directly communicated to overcome misunderstandings and to refine user requirements. Here we share our adaptive strategy for (1) assessing when and where NUCAPS soundings improved operational forecasts by using real, convective case studies and (2) working to increase NUCAPS utilization by improving existing products through direct, face-to-face interaction. Our goal is to discuss the lessons we learned and to share both our successes and challenges working with the weather forecasting community in designing, refining, and promoting novel products. We foresee that our experience in the NUCAPS product development life cycle may be relevant to other communities who can then build on these strategies to transition their products from research to operations (and operations back to research) within the satellite meteorological community.
ISSN:2072-4292
2072-4292
DOI:10.3390/rs12050886