GOES Users

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GOES USERS CONFERENCE IIIDiscussion
HighlightsHydrological/Water Resources
Applications
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Themes

• Increased inclusion of end-users
• Early and continuous engagement of users
  (Government, researchers, valu-added private
  sector and others, i.e. Universities, states and
  counties
• Emphasis shift
• Government non-government users beyond NOAA
• Several levels of training
• Time
• Tiers
• Increase lnter-disciplinary data integration
• Adaptive processes
• Cast all factors into 2012 and beyond

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1) Needs for Data and Product Distribution

• Precipitation
• Skin temperature
• Snow water equivalent/snow extent
• Soil moisture
• Potential evapotranspiration parameters (Solar
  radiation, wind speed, relative humidity, etc.)
• Vegetation cover/land use

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2) User Community Training

• When should training start?
• Earlier in schools, research organizations,
  universities
• Closer to launch for operational people.
• Training methods?
• Limitations of the data capabilities
• Hybrid quantitative/imaging (how to interpret)
• Information processing/GIS
• Change in role of human forecaster
• Early training outreach?
• Mamma says butter up the evil people (Budget
  decision makers)
• RFPs to universities to demonstrate benefits of
  GOES-R
• Target users to deliver value message
• Industry users
• Instrument builders
• Change in culture- Intro to new tools, need to
  start early, capacity building now

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3) NOAA/NESDIS Preparation for GOES-R

• Which ways are most important?
• Show intercomparisons of products/data between
  the current GOES and future GOES-R series
• Developing and validating products
• Powerpoint files/website for background
  information
• Provide test datasets in advance
• Consult users on specific error info they need
  and other metadata needs
• Other venues/forums
• Participate in other satellite conferences
  remote sensing workshops/virtual conferences
• Academia
• Water resources conferences
• Private conferences (i.e. Emergency users)

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3) NOAA/NESDIS Preparation for GOES-R
(Continued)

• Other ways NOAA/Nesdis/Hydrology program can
  help?
• Budget accordingly and addapt to new budget
  process
• Keep hydrologists in the loop (i.e. Dont let the
  meteos hijack the process
• Continuous interdisciplinary outreach

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4) GOES-R Risk Reduction

• Operations applications of in current
  organizations 3 tiers of users
• Develop prototype products well in advance for
  user evaluation and feedback
• Work closely between developers of products
• Provide comprehensive scenarios/case studies for
  various programs
• Involve academia and science early in algorithm
  development and evaluation

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4) GOES-R Risk Reduction (Continued)

• Feedback mechanism for end users to describe
  needs
• Early definitioin of products and services
• More observation systems simulations experiments
  (OSSEs)
• Early development of tools for applicaiton of
  data
• Provide simulated data to test and validate data
  processing and distribution systems i.e. Data
  storage, data rates
• Validation/verification of algorithms

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5) User Readiness Timeline

• Use other professional organizations to spread
  the word
• AMS, NWR, AWR, AGU, ASCE, IEEE, WMO, IAF
• User involvement with scenarion based
  appreciation
• Fire fighting
• Storm surge and precipitation-caused flooding
• Flexible
• Adjust to new info processing, digital services,
  GIS
• New budgets/schedule
• Coordinate with NPOESS other programs

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6) Other Comments

• Make guest speakers available
• Particularly, target professional conferencees
  academic forums
• Provide mechanisms for implementing testing new
  discoveries into operational product system.
• Network of ground truth sites
• Target international organizations
• Study impact/benefits in the social sciences
• Data integration across multiple platforms