Satellite Applications - Operations Proving Ground

VISIT Training: The objective of this training is to learn how to utilize GOES-R era imagery to identify severe thunderstorm signatures. This includes:

1. Inflow Feeder Clouds
2. Lines of Towering Cumulus above an invigorated RFD (also known as flanking towers)
3. Enhanced-V

For more details, including how to take the training with an instructor and how to receive credit in the CLC, check out the VISIT page.

VISIT Training: AACPs are often associated with severe weather -- so their presence should be a guide to a forecaster who is pondering issuance of a warning. If the Radar presentation of the storm is something that suggests the possibility of severe, and an Above-Anvil Cirrus Plume is also present -- you should incline more to a warning issuance. Also, it the absence of radar -- which is the majority of the world, after all, AACPs can be vital in identifying severe storms.

For more details, including how to take the training with an instructor and how to receive credit in the CLC, check out the VISIT page.

VISIT Training: The objective of this training is to learn how to utilize GOES-R era imagery in combination with other observational data (i.e., surface observations) for air mass and boundary identification during severe weather events. This covers the time period from the pre-storm environment and continuing into the warning decision making period.

For more details, including how to take the training with an instructor and how to receive credit in the CLC, check out the VISIT page.

VISIT Training: A case study of the integration of GOES data into mesoanalysis. This case study is a supplement to Integrating GOES into Mesoanalysis training.

In this recording from the 2019 Satellite Applications Workshop, Chauncy Schultz discusses how GOES satellite imagery drives mesoanalysis which can then be used in collaboration with SPC, and used to message near-term severe hazards to partners. He also shows the utility of the satellite data in convective warning operations.

In a recording from the 2019 Satellite Applications Workshop, Randy Bowers uses multiple case studies to demonstrate the application of satellite imagery to mesoanalysis and warning operations.

VISIT Training: This training session describes a technique to track the elevated mixed layer (EML) that can be an important ingredient for severe thunderstorm events. The technique makes use of a new water vapor band on the GOES-R series (7.3 micron band) along with the Advected Layer Precipitable Water product.

In this recording from the 2017 GOES-16 Applications Workshop, Ariel Cohen demonstrates how GOES-16 can be used to anticipate convective initiation using AWIPS. Multiple case studies are shown and make evident the application of GOES-16 imagery in convective initiation. Cohen also provides an example of how these applications can be used to create IDSS messaging for NWS partners.