Geostationary Operational Environment Satellite (GOES-R) AWIPS II

Instructions for AWIPS II Installation

Space Science and Engineering Center
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Released May 16, 2016
Version 1.0 (May. 16, 2016)
GOES-R
Project members:  Kaba Bah, Scott Bachmeier, Jordan Gerth, Scott Lindstrom

The Space Science and Engineering Center is not continuously staffed. Consequently, data outages and processing issues may result. The products should be considered non-operational.

WRFCHEM Simulated ABI Radiance:

The above simulated radiances are computed in several steps. First, a 36 hour forecast is produced over CONUS using WRF/Chem V3.3.1 (Grell et al., 2005) with the Goddard Chemistry Aerosol Radiation and Transport (GOCART) aerosol scheme (Chin et al., 2000, 2002) run at 8 km horizontal resolution with 34 vertical layers. Meteorological initial conditions and LBCs are provided from NCEP GFS forecasts. Aerosol initial conditions and LBCs are obtained from the Realtime Air Quality Modeling System (RAQMS; Pierce et al., 2007) 1x1 degree global forecasts run daily at CIMSS. The WRF/Chem forecasts use high resolution continental US anthropogenic aerosol and ozone precursor emissions based upon the U.S. EPA's 2005 National Emissions Inventory (NEI-2005). The forecasts also include biomass burning emissions from the preceding day produced from Wild Fire Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm (WFABBA) wildfire products and WRF/Chem biomass burning emissions software.

Announcements

This data is provided as part of the GOES-R Proving Ground. For assistance and suggestions on obtaining and using the data in AWIPS, please contact Jordan Gerth.

Acquiring Data at a Central Region, Eastern Region, or Southern Region WFO

This page contains information for obtaining WRF-CHEM simulated GOES-R ABI data for display in AWIPS II.

GOES-R Proving Ground UW/CIMSS WRF Chem Simulated ABI Bands 1-16.

Simulated GOESR ABI data is currently available to Weather Forecast Offices in Central Region, Eastern Region, and Southern Region. Data is transmitted in compressed netCDF format on the EXP feed of the Local Data Manager (LDM). This is not an operational dataset, so unplanned data errors and outages may result. Contact Jordan Gerth once you are receiving data so we can add your office to the e-mail announcement list. We value any feedback.

Required AWIPS II Configurations

These files are subject to change as the software evolves.

LDAD/Processing Configurations

Perform the following actions to configure your Local Data Acquisition and Dissemination (LDAD) server.

In /data/fxa/LDAD/data as user ldad on server px2:

In /awips/ldad/bin as ldad on px2:

In /awips2/edex/data/utility/ as user awips on dx3 or dx4, where LLL is the WFO identifier:

  1. Append to edex_static/site/LLL/satellite/regionalsat/creatingEntities.xml
  2. Append to edex_static/site/LLL/satellite/physicalElements.xml
  3. Append to edex_static/site/LLL/distribution/regionalsat.xml

Select one of the four "regionalSatImagery*.xml" option that matches your region

  1. Add custom for visible bandsSq-root-12.cmap to common_static/site/LLL/colormaps/
  2. Add custom for IR bandsga20p.cmap to common_static/site/LLL/colormaps/

Screenshots

Courtesy of Kaba Bah (contact)

Sim GOESR ABI Example
Last updated May 16, 2016