Monthly Archives: October 2018

GEONETCast-Americas Imagery of The Day [1]: VIIRS Day Night Band

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Hi GEONETCasters!

In this new Blog Series we are going to show some nice imagery received through GEONETCast-Americas.

The first entry of the series is the awesome Day Night Band imagery (750 m) received at October 30th. The NetCDF’s were converted to GeoTIFF with Python and visualized with SIGMACast (Python and SIGMACast integration in progress!).

Enjoy! (click on the images to enlarge)

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Look at the amount of vessels near Peru!

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Now that’s interesting!

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Boats. Boats everywhere 🙂

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Oil Rigs. Oil Rigs everywhere 🙂

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You may find the Day / Night Band NetCDF’s inside the JPSS/BANDS/DNB GNC-A Folder:

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60,000 GEONETviews!

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Blog readers by location

This week the GNC-A Blog reached 60000 views from more than 140 countries! Thank you to all our readers!

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Blog readers by location

The most viewed pages are the following:

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The top 10 visitor countries are:

  • 01 – Brazil
  • 02 – USA
  • 03 – Canada
  • 04 – Peru
  • 05 – Mexico
  • 06 – Argentina
  • 07 – Ecuador
  • 08 – Colombia
  • 09 – Germany
  • 10 – Cuba

NOAA NUCAPS And MIRS Products Are Now Available On GNC-A

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NOAA Unique Combined Atmospheric Processing System (NUCAPS) and Microwave Integrated Retrieval System (MIRS) products are now available on GEONETCast Americas rebroadcast.

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GEONETCast-Americas JPSS ingestion folder, showing the new MIRS and NUCAPS directory

MIRS products are derived from Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) on board S-NPP, which include temperature and moisture profiles (SND) and precipitation and surface properties (IMG) files.

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MIRS product example – atmospheric temperature at 700 millibars, approximately 3000 meters (10,000 feet), over the globe on January 16, 2018

NUCAPS products are derived from the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) and Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) currently onboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi-NPP) satellite.

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NUCAPS product example – Mixing Ration of Ozone at 1000 mb October 15, 2018

Contact: [email protected] for information on GNC-A Program

Web Site(s) for applicable information:
https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/atmosphere/soundings/nucaps/
https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/atmosphere/mirs/index.html

Training modules on NUCAPS (English)
https://hwt.nssl.noaa.gov/ewp/training_2018/HWT2018_GriddedNucaps_Training.pdf
https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/itwg/itsc/itsc20/program/PDFs/2Nov/session12a/12_05_barnet.pdf
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/?s=nucaps

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Cool GOES-R and JPSS-1 patches near a GNC-A receiver.

Products Generated by the Community [18] – LANOT

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Uriel Castillo, from LANOT, the National Laboratory for Earth Observation at UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico), kindly shared the Python scripts he developed as part of his thesis. We’ve visited LANOT back in July and it is an awesome place! They have a GRB station, X-Band stations and a GNC-A station also.

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Think about a cool Earth Observation laboratory. That’s LANOT! Everything is great in Mexico.

“This script retrieves the variable pixel values by means of geographical coordinates, and works for both L1b and L2 data from GOES-16. It generates imagery in a geographical system within a certain domain assigned by the user, showing the value of the pixel for a given coordinate. Also, it shows the quality of the data based on the DQF provided in the GOES-16 NetCDF as a dataset. You may choose the plot’s color pallete (either a generic one or a custom using the cpt_convert module), and you may activate or deactivate the provided information in the image and you may add a logo. There’s an English and Spanish version of the script, that does exactly the same. I hope it can help the GEONETCast community and GOES-16 users. “, says Uriel.

“The courses that have been published in the blog helped me. I used some of the code and added other features.”

Please click at the image below to download the English version of the script:

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Please click at the image below to download the Spanish version of the script:

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Below, some plot examples provided by Uriel:

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Thank you very much Uriel and LANOT team!!!

This Blog series shows the products developed by the community in the Americas. Most of them refers to data received from GNC-A, however, we also post the development with data received from other means (Amazon S3, FTP, GRB, etc). Please find below the other posts from this series:

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Togheter we are stronger!

GEONETCast-Americas E-mail Notifications

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A new mail list was created for GNC-A related notifications. Check out the message below. Do you want your e-mail added to the list? Just send as e-mail to [email protected]

Welcome to [email protected]

This email-based mailing list will be used for GEONETCast Americas (GNC-A) informational announcements and notifications of planned outages.  We will keep you up to date on changes to GNC-A system or products.  And we will keep you apprised of upcoming meetings, training events, and GNC-A User Group Webinars.

I have automatically subscribed our partners, providers, and all technical contacts for installed receive stations.
Please let me know if:
– You do NOT want to be listed in this group email (I will delete your email from the list);
– I have missed someone you feel should be added;
– You want to subscribe with a different email address.

I am the list owner, and if you have any questions, or need an immediate assistance, please contact the following: Natalia Donoho, GNC-A Program Manager at [email protected]

Bem vindo ao e-mail [email protected]

Essa lista de e-mails será usada para anúncios informativos referentes ao sistema GOENETCast-Americas (GNC-A) e notificações sobre interrupções planejadas. Vamos mantê-lo atualizado sobre as alterações no sistema ou produtos GNC-A. E vamos mantê-lo informado sobre as próximas reuniões, eventos de capacitação e webinars do grupo de usuários GNC-A.

Eu inscrevi automaticamente nossos parceiros, provedores e todos os contatos técnicos das estações instaladas.
Por favor, me informe caso:
– Você NÃO deseja ter o seu e-mail neste grupo (seu email será excluído da lista);
– Caso eu tenha esquecido de adicionar alguém que você ache que deva ser adicionado;
– Você deseje se inscrever na lista com um endereço de e-mail diferente.

Sou a proprietária da lista, e se você tiver alguma dúvida ou precisar de assistência imediata, entre em contato com: Natalia Donoho, gerente do Programa GNC-A através do e-mail: [email protected]

Bienvenido al correo electrónico [email protected]

Esta lista de correos electrónicos se utilizará para los anuncios informativos referentes al sistema GOENETCAST-Americas (GNC-A) y notificaciones sobre interrupciones planificadas. Vamos a mantenerlo actualizado sobre los cambios en el sistema o productos GNC-A. Y le mantendré informado sobre las próximas reuniones, eventos de capacitación y webinars del grupo de usuarios de GNC-A.

He inscrito automáticamente a nuestros socios, proveedores y todos los contactos técnicos de las estaciones instaladas.
Por favor, dígame si:
– Usted no desea tener su e-mail en este grupo (su email será excluido de la lista);
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Soy la propietaria de la lista, si tiene alguna duda o necesita asistencia inmediata, entre en contacto con: Natalia Donoho, gerente del Programa GNC-A a través del e-mail: [email protected]