Current Status

  • 2004UTC 13Apr2012: As of 08UTC 13Apr2012, a bug in the GOES Sounder temperature and moisture retrieval software at CIMSS was repaired. This bug was manifesting itself as excessive cloudiness in the precipitable water, Lifted Index and CAPE derived products. (jim.nelson@ssec.wisc.edu)

Recent Changes

  • 2302UTC, 12Apr2012: Starting about 04Apr2012, all GOES Sounder temperature and moisture products were updated within a 2-3 day period to be those products generated by a physical retrieval algorithm described in Li et al(2008). Previously, the same products were produced by an algorithm described in Ma et al(1999). The GOES Sounder cloud products were not affected by these changes. Please contact: jim.nelson@ssec.wisc.edu for any questions. References: Li, Zhenglong; Li, Jun; Menzel, W. Paul; Schmit, Timothy J.; Nelson, James P. III; Daniels, Jaime and Ackerman, Steven A. GOES sounding improvement and applications to severe storm nowcasting. Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 35, Issue 3, 2008, doi:10.1029/2007GL032797. Reprint #5677. Ma, Xia L.; Schmit, Timothy J. and Smith, William L. A nonlinear physical retrieval algorithm - Its application to the GOES-8/9 sounder. Journal of Applied Meteorology, Volume 38, Issue 5, 1999, pp.501-513. Reprint #2580.
  • 1855UTC, 06Dec2011: Earlier today, GOES-15 replaced GOES-11 as the operational NOAA west geostationary satellite (http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2011/20111206_goessatellite.html). At CIMSS, the transition from GOES-11 to GOES-15 was essentially completed as of the 18Z products. Please contact: jim.nelson@ssec.wisc.edu for any questions.

This website contains various GOES derived product images (DPI) as well as composite displays made routinely at CIMSS, usually every hour, using current GOES multi-spectral sounding and imager data.

Realtime radiances and derived products

For those using McIDAS to gain ADDE access to the satellite data used in these displays, use one of the following CIMSSP* ADDE groups: CIMSSP1, CIMSSP2, CIMSSP3 or CIMSSP7. Please see http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/rt/all_cimss_adde_datasets

Other GOES Products at CIMSS

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Credits

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Unless otherwise noted, all satellite data are provided by the Data Center at the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) of the University of Wisconsin - Madison and are displayed using McIDAS, the Man computer Interactive Data Access System.

Disclaimer

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The products from GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) shown here are experimental. These are generated and maintained within a research environment (here at CIMSS (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies)) and are not intended to be considered operational. Timeliness, availability, and accuracy are sought but not guaranteed.

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