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517 NOUS40 KWBC 061912 FOS/NOAAPORT NOTICE NO. 1831 DECEMBER 6... 2000 ATTENTION FAMILY OF SERVICES SUBSCRIBERS/NOAAPORT USERS REMINDER FOR ALL USERS OF GOES-WEST DATA PER REQUEST OF THE RESEARCH COMMUNITY AND COORDINATION WITH NWS AND NESDIS... THERE WILL A TEMPORARY CHANGE TO THE GOES-10 ROUTINE IMAGER SCANNING SCHEDULE. RAPID SCAN AND SUPER RAPID SCAN SCHEDULES ARE NOT AFFECTED BY THIS CHANGE. THIS CHANGE IN THE SCHEDULE IS NOW BEING REFERRED TO AS GWINDEX /GOES RAPID SCAN WINDS EXPERIMENT/ WHICH IS A SUBSET OF THE PACJET EXPERIMENT. THIS GWINDEX RESEARCH REQUEST IS IN SUPPORT OF THE PACIFIC LAND FALLING JET EXPERIMENT /PACJET/.IN PACJET...HIGH DENSITY WINDS WILL BE PRODUCED EXPERIMENTALLY USING MORE FREQUENT SATELLITE IMAGERY... TO SEE IF THERE ARE POSITIVE IMPACTS IN NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION. SEE HTTP//CIMSS.SSEC.WISC.EDU/GOES/G10/UNDERSCORE/REPORT/ /SECTION 4.6/ FOR MORE INFORMATION. A TEST PERIOD WILL TAKE PLACE FROM 2145Z ON DEC 10... 2000 THROUGH 2145Z ON DEC 15... 2000. BASED ON A SUCCESSFUL TEST... THIS TEMPORARY SCHEDULE WILL BE IN EFFECT FROM 2145Z ON JAN 03... 2001 THROUGH 2145Z ON MARCH 31... 2001. THE EFFECTED SCHEDULE AND IMAGES ARE AS FOLLOWS THE CURRENT SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE IMAGE THAT IS SCANNED HOURLY AT XX52 WILL BE REPLACED WITH A PACIFIC US /PACUS/ SECTOR. THIS WILL RESULT IN HAVING ONLY ONE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE IMAGE AN HOUR DURING ROUTINE SCANNING MODE AT XX22... AND WILL INCREASE THE TYPICAL COVERAGE OVER THE WESTERN UNITED STATES TO 5 TIMES PER HOUR AT XX00... XX15... XX30... XX45... AND XX52. NOTE THAT DUE TO HOUSEKEEPING ON GOES-10... THERE WILL NOT BE AN ADDITIONAL PACUS IMAGE AT 0352Z... 1552Z... OR 2152Z... SIMILAR TO THE CURRENT LACK OF SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE DATA AT THESE TIMES FOR THE SAME REASON. SEE HTTP//WWW.SSD.NOAA.GOV/SSD/GOES/WEST/SCHED.HTML FOR FULL DETAILS ON THE CURRENT SCANNING STRATEGY AND SCANNING SCHEDULE. IN THE EVENT OF OPERATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS /FOR EXAMPLE... A TROPICAL CYCLONE APPROACHING THE AMERICAN SAMOA/ THE CURRENT GOES-WEST SCANNING SCHEDULE CAN AND WILL BE REINSTATED FOR THE DURATION OF OPERATIONAL NEEDS. THE PACJET SCHEDULE WILL BE REINSTATED ONCE CONDITIONS WARRANT. IF THERE ARE ANY OTHER CONCERNS TO THIS TEMPORARY SCHEDULE CHANGE... PLEASE CONTACT ME. THIS INFORMATION IS ALSO POSTED ON THE NWS SYSTEMS OPERATIONS CENTER CHANGE NOTICES WEB PAGE. THE URL IS LISTED BELOW. HTTP/COLON///WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/OSO/NOTICES/NOTICES.SHTML /LOWER CASE/ TOM RENKEVENS SATELLITE ANALYSIS BRANCH SATELLITE SERVICES DIVISION NOAA/NESDIS 301-763-8051 X109 THOMAS.RENKEVENS/AT SYMBOL/NOAA.GOV ---------- End Forwarded Message ----------
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