Wendy Schreiber-Abshire, Patrick Dills, & Bill Bua

UCAR’s COMET Program

17 June 2015

Training Resources Highlighting the Benefits and Impacts of Satellite Data Assimilation into NWP

(AKA: Where to learn more)

Satellite Proving Ground/User-Readiness Meeting

The purpose of this meeting is to assess the status of GOES-R and JPSS user-readiness for NWS and other NOAA staff while identifying the remaining gaps in preparation for the 2016-2017 launch targets.

Over 100 Satellite-specific lessons on MetEd, and three multi-lesson courses, one of which is on GOES-R+ (69 English, 25 Spanish, 16 French)

Open to all to use. A simple free registration required.

Over 20,000 meaningful English satellite lesson user sessions per year

NESDIS satellite training activities with the COMET Program attract additional funding and training development specifically in the satellite topic area from both EUMETSAT and the Meteorological Service of Canada

This presentation specifically highlights one of our newer satellite publications: “How Satellite Data Impact NWP”

2014 Lesson Usage (Eng):

> 400 SessionsRemote Sensing Using Satellites,

2nd Edition; 2454

How Satellite Observations Impact NWP; 1345

Satellite Meteorology: GOES Channel Selection V2; 1307

Satellite Feature Identification: Conveyor Belts; 1120

Satellite Feature Identification: Cyclogenesis; 1004

Satellite Feature Identification: Inferring Three Dimensions from Water Vapour Imagery; 951

Monitoring the Climate System with Satellites; 945

Deformation Zone Analysis; 766

Multispectral Satellite Applica-tions: RGB Products Explained;

725

Satellite Feature Identification: Blocking Patterns; 655

GOES-R GLM: Introduction to the Geostationary Lightning

Mapper; 628

Satellite Feature Identification: Atmospheric Rivers ; 553

GOES-R: Benefits of Next-Gen-eration Environmental Monitor-

ing; 549

Microwave Remote Sensing: Clouds, Precipitation, and Wa-

ter Vapor; 536

Vorticity Maxima and Comma Patterns; 533

Microwave Remote Sensing: Overview, 2nd Edi-tion ; 409

Lesson released:

12 March 2014

How Satellite Observations Impact NWP 90-120 minute interactive lesson

meted.ucar.edu/satmet/sat_nwp

Grateful to an expert team of contributors and reviewers

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