{"id":59071,"date":"2024-05-10T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=59071"},"modified":"2024-05-11T00:55:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T00:55:09","slug":"noaa-21-nucaps-profiles-are-now-in-awips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/59071","title":{"rendered":"NOAA-21 NUCAPS Profiles (and gridded NUCAPS fields) are now in AWIPS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"926\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/05\/GriddedNUCAPS_10May2024_1134_to_1337_step.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59104\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gridded NUCAPS values of 500-mb Temperatures from three different overpasses near 1200 UTC on 10 May 2024 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>NUCAPS profiles from NOAA-21 are now flowing into AWIPS, joining NUCAPS from NOAA-20 and Metop-C. NOAA-21 and NOAA-20 orbits are similar, and the combination of the two satellites means complete coverage twice daily. That is demonstrated in the animation above over Hawai&#8217;i that shows gridded NUCAPS fields of 500-mb temperatures between 1134 and 1331 UTC on 10 May 2024, from two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/datacenter\/polar_orbit_tracks\/data\/NOAA21\/2024\/2024_05_10_131\/HONOLULU.gif\">NOAA-21 overpasses<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/datacenter\/polar_orbit_tracks\/data\/JPSS-1\/2024\/2024_05_10_131\/HONOLULU.gif\">one NOAA-20 overpass<\/a>. There are no gaps in data coverage! The data shows unseasonably cold 500-mb temperatures (-16<sup>o<\/sup>C) to the north of the Hawai&#8217;ian Islands. The cold temperatures are associated with a region of convection to the north of Hawai&#8217;i as shown in the image below taken from the <a href=\"https:\/\/geosphere.ssec.wisc.edu\/#coordinate:-1987664,2343931;zoom:5;satellite:goeswest;product:%5B%7B%22n%22:%22true_color_night%22,%22a%22:1%7D%5D;map_grid:on;num_frames:22;start_time:2024-05-10T15:00:00Z;timeframe:Start%20Time;\">Geosphere site<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/05\/goeswest_abi_radf_true_color_night_20240510183022.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"795\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/05\/goeswest_abi_radf_true_color_night_20240510183022-1024x795.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/05\/goeswest_abi_radf_true_color_night_20240510183022-1024x795.png 1024w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/05\/goeswest_abi_radf_true_color_night_20240510183022-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/05\/goeswest_abi_radf_true_color_night_20240510183022-768x596.png 768w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/05\/goeswest_abi_radf_true_color_night_20240510183022.png 1166w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">True-color imagery over Hawai&#8217;i, 1830 UTC on 10 May 2024 (click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NUCAPS profiles from NOAA-21 are now flowing into AWIPS, joining NUCAPS from NOAA-20 and Metop-C. NOAA-21 and NOAA-20 orbits are similar, and the combination of the two satellites means complete coverage twice daily. That is demonstrated in the animation above over Hawai&#8217;i that shows gridded NUCAPS fields of 500-mb temperatures between 1134 and 1331 UTC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":59104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,131,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noaa-20","category-noaa-21","category-nucaps"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59071","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59071"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59111,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59071\/revisions\/59111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}