26th Operational-MIRS Meeting

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26th Operational-MIRS Meeting

• March 20th 2009
• S.-A. Boukabara

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Agenda

• Overview Status of MiRS / NOAA-19 Status Sid
• MiRS Operational Status OSDPD
• MiRS/N19 for Core products  Kevin
• MiRS/N19 for Snow and Ice properties Chris
• MiRS/N19 for Rainfall Rate Flavio
• MiRS Improvement to Rainfall Rate Using MM5
  RuiYue
• Status/Update on MiRS for FY-3 MWRI       
  Tiger
• System/Web site updates / level-III data
  Wanchun
• Discussions All

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MiRS SPSRB briefing

• MiRS (build 4, delivered on December 15th 2008)
  was briefed to SPSRB on March 18th. Green light
  granted. Congrats to the whole team (STAR and
  OSDPD!)

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MiRS Status

• Improvements being made to improve RR using MM5,
  TRMM and CPC (depart from MSPPS training)
• Improvement to Bias computation and monitoring
• Expansion of MiRS to FY MWRI sensor as well as
  MWTS, MWHS
• Improvements being made F16 RR (Noise tuning)
• Improvements being made to surface properties
• MiRS/NDE collaboration seems to be on good
  footage. Kevin attending all meetings and
  starting to implement MiRS within NDE/DHS next
  week (PCF and PSF tested).
• Bill Blackwell from MIT/LL visited on March 17th.
  Collaboration on ATMS proxy data and FM is
  ongoing. Efforts will be leveraged.

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MiRS/N19 Overview

• N19 performances assessed against several
  reference data RAOBs, ECMWF, HIRS, GDAS, CPC
  rain gauges, CloudSAT, AMSR-E, TRMM, etc
• Results from NOAA-19 performance assessments
  suggest N19 is ready to become operational
  (comparable performances as N18).
• N18 vs N19 comparisons suggest N18 and N19
  products are consistent
• - Today, we start transitioning the
  delta-package of MiRS to OSDPD for operational
  processing of N19, (on schedule)
• Monitoring, fine-tuning of bias, RTM uncertainty,
  etc will continue until L90
• No major problems found convergence, QC, etc

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Data Quality Monitoring
Convergence rate /N19
Convergence rate /N18
Thresholds triggering warning messages
Bad-Data Rate /N19
Bad-Data Rate /N18
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Issues previously reported (Now fixed)
N19 Iterations (before Biasrtm uncertainty
tuning)
N18 Iterations (operational)
N19 Iterations (AFTER Biasrtm uncertainty
tuning)
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Upcoming

• Efforts will be spent to expand MiRS to GeoSTAR
  (Geostationary Microwave sensor)
• Request for collaboration by MIT was made to use
  MiRS for NAST/M aircraft measurements.