Topic: Anomaly correction of S-NPP NOAA Unique Combined Atmospheric Processing System (NUCAPS) Low Resolution BUFR Products

Date/Time Issued: October 10, 2019 1839Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted:Missing cloud height corrected in the NUCAPS low resolution BUFR Data Product.

Date/Time of Initial Impact: October 10, 2019 1840Z

Date/Time of Expected End: N/A

Length of Event: N/A

Details/Specifics of Change: On October 10, 2019 1830 UTC, S-NPP NUCAPS CrIS low-resolution (399 and 1305 channels) BUFR data products such as CrIS_C0399_BUFR, and CrIS_C1305_BUFR were updated to include the missing cloud information. In particular, the cloud height computed from Enterprise VIIRS Clouds algorithm generated by JPSS Risk Reduction application have been added to these products.

The newly generated NetCDF4 and BUFR products for low-resolution have the following filenames and corresponding PDA product shortnames:
NUCAPS 4.3:
File name NUCAPS-C0399_v2r0_npp_s*.bufr Shortname CrIS_C0399_BUFR
File name NUCAPS-C1305_v2r0_npp_s*.bufr Shortname CrIS_C1305_BUFR
File name NUCAPS-ALL-LR_v2r0_npp_s*.nc Shortname NUCAPS_ALL-LR

Contact Information for Further Information: Product Area Lead - Awdhesh Sharma (Awdhesh.Sharma@noaa.gov)

Web Site(s) for applicable information:

https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/atmosphere/soundings/nucaps/
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