Update #5: This is the final reminder for the NDE System Upgrade on September 30, 2020 from 1350 to 1620 UTC.

Update #4: NDE System Upgrade is postponed to September 30 due to the critical weather day this week.

Update #3: An update to file names and version number is listed below in red

Update #2: An update to file names is listed below in red

Update #1: This is a 2 week reminder for the NDE System Upgrade scheduled for September 23, 2020. Please note that this implementation will include the FFS (prefix) also known as super header of 19 bytes that is required for NCO distribution for both GOES-16 and GOES-17 ASOS SCP products.

Topic: NDE System Upgrade

Date/Time Issued: September 29, 2020 1307 UTC

Product(s) or Data Impacted: All NDE products

Date/Time of Initial Impact: September 30, 2020 1350 UTC

Date/Time of Expected End: September 30, 2020 1620 UTC

Length of Outage: 2.5 hours

Details/Specifics of Change:

This installation of NDE release 2.0.25 is planned to occur during back orbits. NDE will not be ingesting, processing or distributing data during installation. No data loss is expected, but there will be a possible backlog of processing when installation is complete.

New products included in this release are:

GOES-17 ASOS SCP:

GOES-17 Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) Satellite Cloud Product (SCP) will be generated hourly using the GOES-17 pixel level cloud products derived from the GOES-R cloud algorithms (Optimal Estimation) ABI data. The SCP product includes Cloud Cover, Cloud Top Height, and Effective Cloud Amount at middle (631-400mb) and high (above 400mb) layers of the atmosphere. The product files are listed below in the table:

NOTE:

Please note that this implementation will include the FFS (prefix) also known as super header of 19 bytes that is required for NCO distribution for both GOES-16 and GOES-17 ASOS SCP products. NCO will deliver the data to AWIPS and others. Please pay attention to the file name that has a new version number. The current data format has not been changed and does not include the QC fields, and we will make a decision for including the QC fields later.

Product Short Name for GOES-17 ASOS SCP | Product File Name (TXT)
T_TCUS50_C_KNES_ABIASOS | T-TCUS 50-C-KNES-ABIASOS_v2r 2_g17_sXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_eXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_cXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.txt
T_TCUS51_C_KNES_ABIASOS | T-TCUS 51-C-KNES-ABIASOS_v2r 2_g17_sXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_eXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_cXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.txt
T_TCUS52_C_KNES_ABIASOS | T-TCUS 52-C-KNES-ABIASOS_v2r 2_g17_sXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_eXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_cXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.txt
T_TCUS53_C_KNES_ABIASOS | T-TCUS 53-C-KNES-ABIASOS_v2r 2_g17_sXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_eXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_cXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.txt
T_TCUS54_C_KNES_ABIASOS | T-TCUS 54-C-KNES-ABIASOS_v2r 2_g17_sXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_eXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_cXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.txt
Product Short Name for GOES-16 ASOS SCP | Product File Name (TXT)
T_TCUS40_C_KNES_ABIASOS | T-TCUS 40-C-KNES-ABIASOS_v2r 2_g16_sXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_eXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_cXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.txt
T_TCUS41_C_KNES_ABIASOS | T-TCUS 41-C-KNES-ABIASOS_v2r 2_g16_sXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_eXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_cXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.txt
T_TCUS42_C_KNES_ABIASOS | T-TCUS 42-C-KNES-ABIASOS_v2r 2_g16_sXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_eXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_cXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.txt
T_TCUS43_C_KNES_ABIASOS | T-TCUS 43-C-KNES-ABIASOS_v2r 2_g16_sXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_eXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_cXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.txt
T_TCUS62_C_KNES_ABIASOS | T-TCUS 62-C-KNES-ABIASOS_v2r 2_g16_sXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_eXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_cXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.txt

VIIRS I-Band Active Fires:

The VIIRS I-Band Active Fires products include the geolocation and Fire Radiative Power (FRP) of pixels for which fires are detected, and a full mask consisting of a two-dimensional array of values representing fire and other relevant thematic classes (e.g., cloud) of each pixel in a swath data granule globally over all land and water surface types. This product has higher resolution (375m) compared with the current operational VIIRS and Active Fires (750m). The product files are listed below:

Product Short Name | Product File Name
AF_Iband_VIIRS_EDR | AF-Iband_v1r0_npp_*.nc AF-Iband_v1r0_j01_*.nc
AF_Iband_VIIRS_ASCII_List | AF-Iband_v1r0_npp_*.txt AF-Iband_v1r0_j01_*.txt

Please note: This upgrade will not be performed during Critical Weather Day (CWD).

Also, the contents of this release are subject to change based on user readiness, customer feedback, and management approval.

Additional ESPC notifications will provide further details and updates concerning this release. User feedback and questions should be directed to Shuang Qiu shuang.qiu@noaa.gov

Contact Information: For information on the status of this work, please contact Shuang Qiu shuang.qiu@noaa.gov or ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov or 301-817-3880

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