# Presentation: 529362

## GOES-R data and products will support applications for Climate Monitoring

**Improvements of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES)-R series for Climate Applications **

**GOES-R data and products will support applications for Climate Monitoring**

**“****Natural color” Hurricane Isabel on September 18, 2003 from MODIS bands on the ABI**

**Timothy J. Schmit**
**NOAA/NESDIS, Office of Research and Applications,**
**Advanced Satellite Products Team (ASPT)**
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**W. P. Menzel**
**NOAA/NESDIS, Office of Research and Applications**
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**James J. Gurka**
**NOAA/NESDIS, Office of Systems Development**** **
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**Elaine M. Prins**
**NOAA/NESDIS, Office of Research and Applications,**
**Advanced Satellite Products Team (ASPT)**
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**Mathew M. Gunshor**
**Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS)**
**University of Wisconsin-Madison**
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**Jun Li**
**Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS)**
**University of Wisconsin-Madison**

**NOAA’s Climate goal:**
***Understand climate variability and change to enhance society’s ability to plan and respond***

***Climate Observations and Analysis***
***Climate and Ecosystems ******Climate Forcing******Climate Predictions and Projections******Climate Information for Decisions***

**In order to meet user requirements, several instruments have been designated for the GOES-R notional baseline. GOES-R is slated to launch in 2012. **
***Payload key:***
**ABI**** **	Advanced Baseline Imager
**HES** 	Hyperspectral Environmental Suite
- 	(Infrared (IR) and Coastal Waters (CW))
**GLM** 	Geo Lightning Mapper
**SIS** 	Solar Imaging Suite
**SEISS** 	Space Environment In-Situ Suite
**MAG**	Magnetometer
**AUX** 	Auxiliary Services
- 	  LRIT--Low Rate Information transmission
- 	  EMWIN--Emergency Managers Wx Information Network
- 	  DCS--Data Collection System
- 	  SAR-- Search and Rescue

**GOES-R will allow:**
** ****Satellite-to-satellite cross-calibration of the full operational satellite system **
** ****Hourly high spectral resolution infrared radiances facilitate radiance calibration, calibration-monitoring**
** ****Provide measurements that resolve climate-relevant (diurnal, seasonal, and long-term inter-       annual) changes in atmosphere, ocean, land and cryosphere.**
** ****Solar ****irradiance inputs measured by SIS **
** ****Diurnal signature for fires in the Western hemisphere**
** ****Diurnal signature of clouds (and some cloud-top properties) in the Western hemisphere**
** ****Diurnal signature for Land/Sea temperatures in clear skies**
** ****Diurnal signature of lightning (both cloud-to-ground and intra-cloud discharges) over both land and ocean in the western hemisphere**
** ****Improved measurements of Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR), O****3**** and SO****2**
** ****Continuing the geostationary radiance database**

- “GOES-N/P”

- “GOES-R”

- WV:

***29th Annual NOAA Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop ***

**GOES-R will improve over the existing GOES Imager and Sounder with more spectral bands, better calibration, faster imaging (with more geographical areas scanned), and higher spatial resolution. **
**In the case of the Imager this means increasing from 5 to 16 spectral bands, on-orbit visible and near-IR calibration, full disk images every 15 minutes, and nominally improving resolution from 4 to 2 km for the infrared bands and 1 to 0.5 km for the 0.64 ********m ****visible band. ****For example, ABI will provide cloud-top phase/particle size information, and an improved aerosol and smoke detection for air quality monitoring and forecasts. **
**For the Sounder the increase in spectral coverage is phenomenal, going from 19 broad spectral bands to hyperspectral coverage with hundreds of narrow bands. The spatial coverage will also improve (by a factor of 5) over today’s sounder. These improvements will lead to more accurate soundings that will occur more often than current soundings over a larger portion of the hemisphere.  The HES Sounder will operate in two modes representing an overall increase in spatial resolution compared to the current Sounder. ****In addition, the ****high-spectral resolution measurements can also be used for satellite comparisons or calculating OLR (Outing Longwave Radiation). **
**For some products the ABI and HES Sounder will act in concert, improving products.  **
**Overall GOES-R will offer a much more consistent and comprehensive view of our environment.**** **