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FOS/NOAAPORT NOTICE NO. 1191 MARCH 11 1998
NOAA IS SCHEDULING A GOES-10 IMAGER AND SOUNDER DATA TEST FROM
MARCH 16 - APRIL 12 1998 TO PRIMARILY INVESTIGATE THE UTILITY
OF RAPID SCAN GOES-10 DATA FOR MONITORING ANALYZING AND
FORECASTING METEOROLOGICAL EVENTS. THE TEST PERIOD WILL
EMULATE THE SUPPORT PROVIDED BY A THREE GOES CONSTELLATION
GOES-8 AT 75 DEGREES WEST GOES-10 AT 105 DEGREES WEST AND
GOES-9 AT 135 DEGREES WEST. IN GENERAL GOES-10 IMAGER SECTORS
WILL BE TRANSMITTED EVERY FOUR MINUTES AND SOUNDER SECTORS
WILL BE TRANSMITTED EVERY THIRTEEN MINUTES.
NESDIS PLANS TO MAKE GOES-10 DATA IMAGER AND SOUNDER DATA
AVAILABLE THROUGH DIRECT READOUT GVAR GROUND STATIONS.
GOES-10 IMAGER DATA COVERING THE CONTINENTAL
UNITED STATES /CONUS/ SCALE IN APPROXIMATE FOUR MINUTE
INTERVALS WILL BE DISTRIBUTED VIA NOAAPORT/AWIPS AND RAMSDIS.
GOES-10 CONUS PRODUCTS WILL BE TRANSMITTED VIA GOES-TAP
EVERY 15 MINUTES.
PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS
NOAAPORT
- GOES-10 CONUS PRODUCTS WILL BE RELAYED ON THE WEST SATELLITE
BROADCAST NETWORK FEED IN LIEU OF GOES-9 PRODUCTS. EXCEPTION
STANDARD GOES-9 PRODUCTS WILL BE PROVIDED DURING THE DAILY
GOES-10 ECLIPSE PERIOD 0530 UTC TO 0815 UTC.
- ALL FIVE IMAGER CHANNELS TRANSMITTED APPROXIMATELY EVERY
FOUR MINUTES.
RAMSDIS
- VARIOUS SECTORS IN VISIBLE WINDOW CHANNEL /11 MICRON/ AND
SHORTWAVE /3.9 MICRON/ CHANNELS WILL BE ACCESSIBLE
APPROXIMATELY EVERY FOUR MINUTES.
- SOME STANDARD RAMSDIS PRODUCTS WILL BE CANCELED TO ALLOW
FOR GOES-10 PRODUCTS AT RAPID INTERVALS.
- ON MARCH 11 CIRA WILL PROVIDE RAMSDIS CUSTOMERS OF
COMMANDS/ PROCEDURES USED TO ACQUIRE AND DISPLAY GOES-10
PRODUCTS.
GOES-TAP
- CONUS SCALE DERIVED EXCLUSIVELY FROM THE WINDOW CHANNEL
WILL BE RELAYED ON SELECTED DIAL CODES AT PARTICIPATING
SATELLITE FIELD DISTRIBUTION FACILITIES /SFDFS/.
- THE GOES-10 GOES-TAP PRODUCTS WILL HAVE A SECTOR IDENTIFIER
OF CC1-ZA4 PRODUCTS WILL BE TRANSMITTED EVERY 15 MINUTES AT
HH00 HH15 HH30 AND HH45.
- THE FOLLOWING DIAL CODES WILL BE USED TO DISSEMINATE GOES-10
GOES-TAP TEST PRODUCTS
MKC SFDF - DIAL CODE 10
MIA SFDF - DIAL CODE 16
SFO SFDF - DIAL CODE 10
WBC SFDF - DIAL CODE 20
GOES-10 SCIENCE AND OPERATIONS TEST SCHEDULE
TO INITIALLY TEST AND EVALUATE DATA INGEST PROCESSING AND
DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS PRIOR TO THE OFFICIAL SCIENCE AND
OPERATIONS TEST NOAA PLANS TO RELAY RAPID SCAN GOES-10 IMAGER
AND SOUNDER DATA ON MARCH 12 1998 FROM 1400 UTC TO 2000 UTC.
PRODUCT GENERATION SYSTEMS AND DATA DISPLAY SYSTEMS
DESCRIBED ABOVE WILL BE USED TO ASSESS RESULTS OF THE
PRE-TEST.
MARCH 16 AT 1900 UTC MARKS THE OFFICIAL START OF THE GOES-10
SCIENCE AND OPERATIONS TEST. IN SUPPORT OF THE TEST THE
GOES-8 AND GOES-9 ROUTINE IMAGER SCHEDULES CONSISTING
OF AUGMENTED FULL DISK SCANS WILL BE IMPLEMENTED ON
MARCH 17 00 UTC AND MARCH 16 2200 UTC.
THE 24-HOUR GOES-10 SCHEDULES CAN BE FOUND AT NESDIS SATELLITE
SERVICES DIVISION WEBSITE HTTP //WWW.SSD.NOAA.GOV. THE
MODIFIED SCHEDULES FOR GOES-8 AND GOES-9 ARE AT THE SAME URL.
THE TEST AND THE SPECIALIZED GOES-10 GOES-8 AND GOES-9
SCHEDULES WILL CONCLUDE ON APRIL 12 1998.
NESDIS POINT OF CONTACT
PLEASE REFER SATELLITE SCHEDULE QUESTIONS TO JOHN PAQUETTE
NESDIS/SSD AT /301/763-8051 EXT. 110.
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