GOES-R Proving Ground Demonstration at the Hazardous Weather Testbed 2014 Spring Experiment Final Evaluation

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• Alternative Title:
  GOES-R Proving Ground Demonstration at the 2014 Spring Experiment - Experimental Warning Program (EWP) and Experimental Forecast Program (EFP)
• Personal Author:
  Anderson, Charles O. ; Hoopes, Thomas B. ; Pava, Jonathan A.
• Corporate Authors:
  Massachusetts. Division of Marine Fisheries
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service)
• Description:
  This report summarizes the activities and results from the GOES-R Proving Ground demonstration at the 2014 Spring Experiment, which took place at the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT) in Norman, OK from May 5 to June 6. The Proving Ground activities were focused in the EWP (4 weeks), with informal demonstrations taking place in the EFP (5 weeks). A total of twelve National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters representing four NWS regions and an additional four broadcast meteorologists evaluated up to nine experimental GOES-R products, capabilities and algorithms (Table 1) in the real-time simulated short-term forecast and warning environment of the EWP using the second generation Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS-II). This included NSSL-WRF GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imagery (ABI) Synthetic Imagery, NearCast model forecasts and analyses of atmospheric moisture and instability, GOES-R Convective Initiation (CI) algorithm, ProbSevere statistical model, Overshooting Top (OT) Detection (OTD) algorithm, Pseudo Geostationary Lightning Mapper (PGLM) total lightning, Lightning Jump algorithm (LJA), and the Total Lightning Tracking Tool (TLTT). Additionally, GOES-14 Super Rapid Scan Operations for GOES-R (SRSOR) 1-minute imagery was available from May 8-24 for participants to view in AWIPS-II (EWP) and NAWIPS (EFP). Many visiting scientists also attended the EWP over the four weeks to provide additional product expertise. Projects evaluated in the EWP alongside GOES-R were the WFO-OUN WRF NWP model and the GSD ensemble LAPS. The SPC/HWT Satellite Liaison, William Line (OU-CIMMS and NOAA/SPC), provided overall project management and subject matter expertise for the GOES-R Proving Ground efforts in the HWT with support from Kristin Calhoun (OU-CIMMS and NOAA/NSSL).
• Format:
  pdf
• Document Type:
  Non-series Report
• Funding:
  Grant no. NA56FI0077
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; Atlantic Coast (U.S.)
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/74227/noaa_74227_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 12.53 MB]
• Collection(s):
  National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
• Main Document Checksum:
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