{"id":63316,"date":"2025-03-05T17:31:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T17:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=63316"},"modified":"2025-03-06T21:22:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T21:22:47","slug":"beta-version-of-csppgeo-lightningcast-software-now-supports-goes-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/63316","title":{"rendered":"Beta version of CSPPGeo LightningCast software now supports GOES-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/LC_GOES-19_CONUS_20250305-1431_TCA.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"584\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/LC_GOES-19_CONUS_20250305-1431_TCA-1024x584.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/LC_GOES-19_CONUS_20250305-1431_TCA-1024x584.png 1024w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/LC_GOES-19_CONUS_20250305-1431_TCA-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/LC_GOES-19_CONUS_20250305-1431_TCA-768x438.png 768w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/LC_GOES-19_CONUS_20250305-1431_TCA.png 1055w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">CSPPGeo LightingCast contours plotted on top of GOES-19 True Color imagery, 1431 UTC on 5 March 2025 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>GOES-19 today is positioned at 89.5<sup>o<\/sup>W, the test position, but is presently scheduled to drift east to the GOES-East location at 75.2<sup>o<\/sup>W.  When on station in early April, it will become the operational GOES-East satellite.  CIMSS scientists have been modifying <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/csppgeo\/\">CSPPGeo software<\/a> to produce products, such as LightningCast probability (available <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/severe_conv\/pltg.html\">online here<\/a>, or, for GOES-16\/GOES-18 in <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/G16DayCloudPhase_LightningCast-20250305_143117.png\">AWIPS<\/a>), using GOES-19 data as input.  The image above shows LightningCast probabilities from GOES-19 over a True Color image (a new feature of the latest beta).  A comparison with GOES-16 (using Day Cloud Phase Distinction) is below.  Differences in the fields are most likely due to view angle differences.  You can read more on GOES-19 LightningCast probabilities <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/62401\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/60965\">this blog post<\/a> describes the (first) beta version of the software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/LC_GOES-16-19_CONUS_20250305-1431_DCPDsidebyside.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"588\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/LC_GOES-16-19_CONUS_20250305-1431_DCPDsidebyside-1024x588.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63319\" style=\"width:1086px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/LC_GOES-16-19_CONUS_20250305-1431_DCPDsidebyside-1024x588.png 1024w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/LC_GOES-16-19_CONUS_20250305-1431_DCPDsidebyside-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/LC_GOES-16-19_CONUS_20250305-1431_DCPDsidebyside-768x441.png 768w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/LC_GOES-16-19_CONUS_20250305-1431_DCPDsidebyside-1536x882.png 1536w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/LC_GOES-16-19_CONUS_20250305-1431_DCPDsidebyside-2048x1176.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">CSPPGeo LightingCast contours plotted on top of GOES-16 (left) and GOES-19 (right) Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB imagery, 1431 UTC on 5 March 2025 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>The new beta is available for download:  <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/csppgeo\/lightningcast_v1.0b2.html\">https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/csppgeo\/lightningcast_v1.0b2.html<\/a>  Comments and evaluations are welcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-19 today is positioned at 89.5oW, the test position, but is presently scheduled to drift east to the GOES-East location at 75.2oW. When on station in early April, it will become the operational GOES-East satellite. CIMSS scientists have been modifying CSPPGeo software to produce products, such as LightningCast probability (available online here, or, for GOES-16\/GOES-18 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":63317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,159,115,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-goes-19","category-lightningcast","category-software"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63316","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=63316"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63342,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63316\/revisions\/63342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}