{"id":1895,"date":"2009-01-01T00:01:23","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T00:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2009-02-06T22:48:47","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T22:48:47","slug":"mtsat-high-density-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/1895","title":{"rendered":"MTSAT High Density Winds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"MTSAT<\/a>

MTSAT High Density Winds (AWIPS menu)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Beginning in October 2008,\u00c2\u00a0 “high density winds” (also known as Atmospheric Motion Vectors, or AMVs)<\/em> derived from the Japanese geostationary\u00c2\u00a0 Multi-functional Transport Satellite<\/strong><\/a> (MTSAT-1R, <\/strong>which is positioned over the Equator at 140\u00c2\u00ba East longitude)<\/em> were added to the NOAAPORT Satellite Broadcast Network (SBN). National Weather Service forecast offices localized as West CONUS sites (or OCONUS offices in the Alaska Region and the Pacific Region)<\/em> that have installed AWIPS Operational Build 9.0 or higher will be able to access these new MTSAT satellite winds products from the AWIPS menu (above)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/div>\n
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TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION NOTICE 08-61\r\nNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HEADQUARTERS WASHINGTON DC\r\n317 PM EDT FRI AUG 1 2008 <\/strong>\r\n\r\nSUBJECT:  NESDIS HIGH DENSITY GEOSTATIONARY WINDS TO BE\r\n          ADDED TO SBN\/NOAAPORT: EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 15 2008 \r\n\r\nEFFECTIVE WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 15 2008...BEGINNING AT APPROXIMATELY\r\n1500 COORDINATED UNIVERSAL TIME \/UTC\/...THE NATIONAL\r\nENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE...DATA...AND INFORMATION SERVICE \/NESDIS\/\r\nAND NWS START DISSEMINATING HIGH DENSITY GEOSTATIONARY \/MTSAT\/\r\nWIND PRODUCTS VIA SBN\/NOAAPORT.\r\n\r\nTHE MTSAT WINDS \/FROM THE JAPANESE SATELLITE\/ WILL AUGMENT THE\r\nCURRENT GOES EAST AND WEST HIGH DENSITY WINDS OVER SPARSE DATA\r\nREGIONS...MOST BENEFITING THE ALASKA AND PACIFIC REGIONS AND THE\r\nAVIATION WEATHER CENTER \/AWC\/.<\/strong><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
\"Coverage<\/a>
Coverage of MTSAT High Density Winds vs GOES High Density Winds<\/p><\/div>\n
A comparison of the areal coverage of the MTSAT vs the GOES high density winds is shown on the Pacific Mercator scale\u00c2\u00a0 (above)<\/strong><\/em> and Northern Hemisphere scale (below)<\/strong><\/em>. The MTSAT high density winds will be available north of the Equator every 3 hours (at 02, 05, 08, 11, 14, 17, 20, and 23 UTC),<\/em> and south of the Equator every 6 hours (at 00, 06, 12, and 18 UTC)<\/em>.<\/p>\n
\"Coverage<\/a>
Coverage of MTSAT High Density Winds vs GOES High Density Winds<\/p><\/div>\n
With the AWIPS cursor sampling function activated, the user will be able to display the valid time<\/strong>, the  type<\/strong> of satellite imagery used to derive a particular AMV (Visible, InfraRed, shortwave InfraRed, or Water Vapor),<\/em> the pressure<\/strong> of the height assignment for that AMV, and the direction\/speed<\/strong> of that AMV (below)<\/strong><\/em>. The wind vectors can be color-coded according to pressure layers (as shown below),<\/em> or by AMV type (IR, Water Vapor, Visible, or 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR)<\/em>. Targets are tracked on three consecutive satellite images in order to calculate the direction and speed of each AMV.<\/p>\n
\"MTSAT<\/a>
MTSAT High Density Winds<\/p><\/div>\n
These MTSAT winds available on AWIPS should be very similar to those derived using GOES data, since NESDIS is using the same AMV software (which was developed at CIMSS)<\/em> for both satellites. For more details about the derivation and application of satellite-derived atmospheric motion vector products, see the SHyMet GOES High Density Winds lesson<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n
Reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n
Velden, C.S. et al., 2005: <\/tt>Recent Innovations in Deriving Winds from Meteorological Satellites<\/strong><\/a>.  Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 86<\/strong>, 205-223<\/tt><\/p>\n
– Updated 29 January 2009<\/em> –<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Beginning in October 2008,\u00c2\u00a0 “high density winds” (also known as Atmospheric Motion Vectors, or AMVs) derived from the Japanese geostationary\u00c2\u00a0 Multi-functional Transport Satellite (MTSAT-1R, which is positioned over the Equator at 140\u00c2\u00ba East longitude) were added to the NOAAPORT Satellite Broadcast Network (SBN). National Weather Service forecast offices localized as West CONUS sites (or OCONUS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,25,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mtsat","category-satellite-winds","category-training"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1898,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions\/1898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}