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Table 1. PRODUCT SUITE PROVIDED TO END USERS.
INSTRUMENT/PRODUCT

FORECAST PROBLEM

MODIS (Terra and Aqua)
Imagery (visible, 3.9, 6.7, 11 µm)

Improve situational awareness

Suite of RGB products (true, false color snow, air mass, night
and day-time microphysics, dust)

Cloud structure, obstructions to visibility, extent of snow cover

Fog/low cloud (11-3.9 µm)

Improve situational awareness

Land and sea surface temperature (LST, SST)

Surface forcing for clouds and convection

SST and ice mask (Great Lakes and Arctic Ocean)

Coastal processes, lake effect precipitation

NDVI/green vegetation (GVF)

Model initiation/improved forecasts

AMSR-E (Aqua) / AMSR2 (GCOM)
Rain rate, cloud water

Coastal weather, data in void regions

SST

Coastal weather

Total Lightning Data (Ground-Based)
Source/flash density

Severe weather, lightning safety

Combined Instrument Products
Multi-sensor SST composite

Short-term weather forecasts

Blended TPW

Moisture mapping, atmospheric rivers, precipitation

HMS/FIRMS fire/burn area

Smoke, reduced visibility, localized flooding

GOES
NESDIS aviation products

Improve situational awareness

Sounder air mass RGB

Storm dynamics, improved situational awareness

GOES-R Proxy Products
Pseudo GLM product suite

Severe weather, lightning safety

GOES-MODIS hybrid imagery (visible, 3.9, 6.7, 11 µm)

Improved situational awareness

Hybrid RGB suite

Improved situational awareness

Quantitative precipitation estimates (QPE)

Precipitation mapping

Convective initiation (CI) product

Convection, precipitation mapping

JPSS Proxy Products
VIIRS imagery (visible, 3.9, 11 µm)

Improved situational awareness

Suite of VIIRS RGB products (true, air mass (w/CrIS), night
and day-time microphysics, dust)

Cloud structure, obstructions to visibility, storm dynamics

VIIRS DNB (low light)-Radiance, reflectance, RGB

Improved situational awareness

SEVIRI
RGB products (air mass, dust, Saharan air layer)

Tropical storm forecasting, storm dynamics

Passive Microwave
TMI (TRMM) 37(V/H), 85(V/H), composite

Precipitation monitoring, storm dynamics

SSMI(S) 37(V/H), 85(V/H), 91(V)

Precipitation monitoring, storm dynamics

SSMI(S) RGBs-37/85, 37PCT

Precipitation monitoring, storm dynamics

MISCELLANEOUS
Land information system (LIS)-Soil moisture

Convective initiation, drought monitoring, flooding

WindSat-Ocean surface wind vectors (OSWV)

Improved situational awareness over oceans

OMI
NESDIS SO2

Volcanic ash monitoring

AIRS
Carbon monoxide, Ozone imagery

programs. Through the transition and use of data that
simulate observing capabilities of instruments on these
future observing systems, SPoRT is helping prepare and
train forecasters for the use of these next generation capabilities. SPoRT has been participating in NOAA's JPSS and
GOES-R Proving Ground activities for the last several years
by working with its collaborative development partners (at
the NOAA Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Satellite
Studies, CIMSS, and the Cooperative Institute for Research
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Fires, air quality, storm dynamics

in the Atmosphere, CIRA) to transition these unique capabilities to operational end users. Eight of SPoRT's collaborative WFO and all five of the collaborating National
Centers receive and evaluate the utility of proxy products
in their forecast operations. These products are listed in
Table 1 under the GOES-R and JPSS proxy products section. SPoRT uses high resolution MODIS and Visible
Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi
National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite data to
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