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<td colspan="10"><p><strong>User Request Form</strong></p>
<p><strong>For a NESDIS</strong></p>
<p><strong>Satellite Product or Service</strong></p></td>
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<td colspan="10"><strong>NESDIS INPUT</strong></td>
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<td><p><strong>1. Tracking No.</strong></p>
<p><strong>0407-1</strong></p></td>
<td colspan="3"><strong>22-July-04</strong></td>
<td colspan="6"><strong>2. Requirement Title:</strong> GOES 12 Imager
Cloud Information</td>
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<td colspan="10"><strong>USER INPUT</strong></td>
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<td colspan="2"></td>
<td colspan="2"><strong>Name</strong></td>
<td colspan="3"><strong>Agency &amp; Mailing Address</strong></td>
<td><strong>Phone And Fax</strong></td>
<td colspan="2"><strong>E-mail</strong></td>
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<td colspan="2"><strong>3. Approval Authority</strong></td>
<td colspan="2">Jack May</td>
<td colspan="3"><p>Aviation Weather Center (AWC), 7220 NW 101st
Terr.,</p>
<p>Kansas City, MO 64153-2371</p></td>
<td><p>P:(816)584-7200 x201</p>
<p>F: (816)880-0650</p></td>
<td colspan="2">Jack.May@noaa.gov</td>
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<td colspan="2"><strong>4. User Project Leader</strong></td>
<td colspan="2">Frederick R. Mosher</td>
<td colspan="3"><p>Aviation Weather Center (AWC), 7220 NW 101st
Terr.,</p>
<p>Kansas City, MO 64153-2371</p></td>
<td><p>P:(816)584-7200 x237</p>
<p>F: (816)880-0650</p></td>
<td colspan="2">Frederick.R.Mosher@noaa.gov&gt;</td>
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<td colspan="2"><strong>5. Operational Point of Contact</strong></td>
<td colspan="2">Frederick R. Mosher</td>
<td colspan="3"><p>Aviation Weather Center (AWC), 7220 NW 101st
Terr.,</p>
<p>Kansas City, MO 64153-2371</p></td>
<td><p>P:(816)584-7200 x237</p>
<p>F: (816)880-0650</p></td>
<td colspan="2">Frederick.R.Mosher@noaa.gov</td>
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<td colspan="2"><strong>6. Technical Point of Contact</strong></td>
<td colspan="2">Frederick R. Mosher</td>
<td colspan="3"><p>Aviation Weather Center (AWC), 7220 NW 101st
Terr.,</p>
<p>Kansas City, MO 64153-2371</p></td>
<td><p>P:(816)584-7200 x237</p>
<p>F: (816)880-0650</p></td>
<td colspan="2">Frederick.R.Mosher@noaa.gov</td>
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<td colspan="2"><strong>7. Requirement Title:</strong></td>
<td colspan="8">GOES 12 Imager Cloud Information</td>
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<td colspan="2"><strong>8. General Description of Need:</strong></td>
<td colspan="8">The AWC is required to include convective cloud tops (in
units of feet) for SIGMETs. The AWC area of responsibility extends from
the middle of the Atlantic across the US into the Pacific to 165 degrees
east.</td>
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<td colspan="2" rowspan="2"><p><strong>9. Benefits:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Value Range (check):</strong></p></td>
<td colspan="8">The new GOES Imager cloud product will increase
forecasters knowledge of the location and height of cold cloud tops. The
GOES-12 imager cloud top product would greatly improve the AWC's ability
to measure cloud top heights of rapidly developing cloud systems.</td>
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<td colspan="2">Less than $100K</td>
<td></td>
<td colspan="2">$100K to $1 Million</td>
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<td>Greater than $1 Million</td>
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<td colspan="2"><strong>10. Shortcomings of Existing
Capabilities:</strong></td>
<td colspan="8">Currently the AWC uses the satellite sounder cloud top
product on AWIPS and local workstation determined cloud tops from IR
temperatures and radiosonde soundings. The GOES Sounder product is only
over a very limited geographical region. The imager product will be
available more frequently and sooner and over a larger geographical
extent.</td>
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| **11. Need    | Early 2005  |                                       |
| Date:**       |             |                                       |
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| **12.         | Indefinite  |                                       |
| Termination   |             |                                       |
| Date:**       |             |                                       |
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| **13. User    | **Check     |                                       |
| Priority:**   | Appropriate |                                       |
|               | Box Below** |                                       |
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|               |             | **Mission Critical:** Cannot meet     |
|               |             | operational mission objectives        |
|               |             | without this requirement              |
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|               |             | **Mission Optimal:** Requirement not  |
|               |             | critical but would provide            |
|               |             | significant improvement to            |
|               |             | operational capability                |
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|               |             | **Mission Enhancing:** Requirement    |
|               |             | needed to enhance state of knowledge  |
|               |             | or assess potential for operational   |
|               |             | capability                            |
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| **14.         | The AWC     |                                       |
| Suggested     | requests    |                                       |
| Solutions     | direct      |                                       |
| (Optional):** | access to   |                                       |
|               | the new     |                                       |
|               | imager      |                                       |
|               | cloud top   |                                       |
|               | product in  |                                       |
|               | AREA format |                                       |
|               | via ADDE    |                                       |
|               | from the    |                                       |
|               | NOAA NESDIS |                                       |
|               | servers     |                                       |
|               | until this  |                                       |
|               | product can |                                       |
|               | be made     |                                       |
|               | available   |                                       |
|               | on AWIPS    |                                       |
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| **15. Concept | NOAA NWS    |                                       |
| Of Operations | forecasters |                                       |
| (Optional):** | would       |                                       |
|               | consult     |                                       |
|               | this image  |                                       |
|               | product     |                                       |
|               | along that  |                                       |
|               | from the    |                                       |
|               | GOES        |                                       |
|               | Sounder.    |                                       |
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| **16.         | When the    |                                       |
| Additional    | 13.3 um     |                                       |
| Remarks       | band        |                                       |
| (Optional):** | becomes     |                                       |
|               | available   |                                       |
|               | on the      |                                       |
|               | western     |                                       |
|               | GOES        |                                       |
|               | satellite,  |                                       |
|               | this        |                                       |
|               | product     |                                       |
|               | should be   |                                       |
|               | generated   |                                       |
|               | from that   |                                       |
|               | satellite.  |                                       |
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| **17. Email,  | email:      |                                       |
| Mail or Fax   | Eileen      |                                       |
| Request to:** | Maturi:     |                                       |
|               | Eileen.Matu |                                       |
|               | ri@noaa.gov |                                       |
|               |             |                                       |
|               | Fax:        |                                       |
|               | (3          |                                       |
|               | 01)763-8580 |                                       |
|               |             |                                       |
|               | Mail: E/RA2 |                                       |
|               | (Attn:      |                                       |
|               | Eileen      |                                       |
|               | Maturi)     |                                       |
|               |             |                                       |
|               | 5200 Auth   |                                       |
|               | Road        |                                       |
|               |             |                                       |
|               | Camp        |                                       |
|               | Springs, MD |                                       |
|               | 20746       |                                       |
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