A Workshop on the Next-Generation Environmental Satellite Constellations

[...]as the advanced technology employed in GOES-R and JPSS has led to vast improvements in imaging, more training and effort is needed to take advantage of the new benefits offered by these satellite advances. [...]the GOES-R and JPSS satellites will be operational well into the 2030s, and it is important to keep the different users around the world up to date. In this sense, a collaborative effort led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), with the collaboration of the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), resulted in the first NOAA–NASA Satellite Summer Workshop. The instruments on board GOES-R are the multichannel passive imaging radiometer, Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI; Schmit et al. 2005, 2017); the near-infrared optical detector of lightning, Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM; Goodman et al. 2013; Rudlosky et al. 2018); the suite of ultraviolet and x-ray sensors Extreme Ultra-Violet and X-Ray Irradiance Sensor (EXIS; Chamberlin et al. 2009; Eparvier et al. 2009); the sun monitoring telescope in the extreme ultraviolet wavelength range, Solar Ultra-Violet Imager (SUVI; Martínez-Galarce et al. 2013); a set of energetic particle sensors, Space Environmental In Situ Suite (SEISS; Galica et al. 2016); and the suite of sensors to monitor proton, electron, and heavy-ion fluxes in the magnetosphere, Magnetometer (MAG; Singer et al. 1996). The workshop starting point was a broad overview of the radiative transfer applied to meteorological satellites, including the review of the Planck function, brightness temperature, weighting functions obtainment and use, solar reflectance and thermal emissivity by the Earth, the land–ocean–atmosphere spectral signatures, and the molecular absorption of the infrared by the molecules’ vibrational and rotational excitation.