<div dir="ltr">NOAA nowCOAST Status Message<div>9:40 AM EST Friday, January 5, 2018</div><div><br></div><div>UPDATE: Due to recent critical weather days, the planned GOES Satellite Imagery changes described below have been delayed and are now scheduled to occur <b>Monday, January 8, 2018 between 1530 - 1545 UTC</b>.</div><div><br>If you have questions about these upcoming changes, please contact us at <a href="mailto:nowcoast.team@noaa.gov">nowcoast.team@noaa.gov</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>Jason Greenlaw</div><div>nowCOAST Team<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 3:48 PM, John Kelley - NOAA Federal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john.kelley@noaa.gov" target="_blank">john.kelley@noaa.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px">NOAA nowCOAST Status Message</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">3:40 PM EST Tuesday, December 26, 2017 </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">NOAA/NESDIS has now decided that imagery from GOES-16 (now GOES-East) will be incorporated into their operational <span style="font-size:12.8px">Global Mosaic of Geostationary Satellite Imagery on or about <span class="m_-6964208536051635620gmail-aBn"><span class="m_-6964208536051635620gmail-aQJ">Jan. 2, 2018 </span></span>when GOES-13 data will no longer be disseminated. This will prevent the complete loss of cloud imagery for the GOES-East geographic coverage area on nowCOAST. However, there will still be impacts since NESDIS will not be incorporating the GOES-16 imagery into their higher resolution GOES-East visible, IR, and water vapor imagery geoTIFF products used by nowCOAST. </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Anticipated Impacts to nowCOAST's map serivce: </span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><i>sat_meteo_imagery_ti<wbr>me</i> are given below.</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px">For GOES-East Geographic Coverage Area:</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- Loss of visible, shortwave infrared, longwave infrared, and water vapor imagery within "GOES Northern Hemisphere" layers (REST layer IDs 0 to 15)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- Maintain visible, shortwave infrared, and longwave infrared cloud imagery within "Global" layers (REST layer IDs 16 to 27)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- Reduced update frequency for visible and IR imagery<br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> - "Global" layers update every 3 hours compared to every 30 minutes for GOES-West footprint in "GOES Northern Hemisphere" layers</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- Reduced spatial resolution of visible and IR imagery</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> - "Global" layers have 8 km resolution compared to 1km (Visible) and 4km (IR) for GOES-West footprint in "GOES Northern Hemisphere" layers</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">If you have questions, please send email to <a href="mailto:nowcoast.team@noaa.gov" target="_blank">nowcoast.team@noaa.gov</a>.</div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">John Kelley, Jason Greenlaw, and John Evans</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">nowCOAST Development Team</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div>
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