SPOP Top Ten Task List	Last Revision Date: January 07, 2003

Tas
k #

Task Title

Project

(GOES or POES)

Status

(Active or Inactive)

POC

SPSRB

XReference

Funding Source

(OSD/PSDI, Unfunded, Other)

1

Generate all GOES sounder cloud and retrieval products at full single fov resolution. Support for field experiments (IHOP, etc).

GOES

Active for retrieval products (cloud done)

CIMSS, FPDT, G. Gray

ORA: GIMPAP; PSDI

2	Acquire, test and make available new GOES-8/10 Sounder spectral responses. NIST has shown the need for these new sounder spectral response functions

GOES	Active for GOES-10.

Need to generate retrievals

Weinreb, Schmit et al.

OSD

3

NESDIS/SSD should disseminate GOES sounder products on their web pages

GOES

Inactive; awaiting internal SSD meeting

Daniels, Turner, Merkle

TBD

4

Write-up GOES-12 Post-Launch Test Report

GOES

Active – draft version available

Hillger, Schmit, Daniels

GIMPAP

5

Science Monitoring and Troubleshooting

(OPS support; Investigate code optimization, etc)

GOES	Holland

6

Begin preparation for GOES-N. (Acquire SRF, average, compute needed transmittance files, calculate weighting functions.)

GOES

Inactive	Weinreb, Schmit	OSD ground system

7

Generate additional DPI, for example Convective Inhibition (CIN) and CAPE

GOES

Cloud ECA being done.

8

GOES sounder (radiance) imagery to AWIPS

GOES

Active – Build ???

Helms, Carney

13

TBD

9

GOES sounding profile products to AWIPS; including single-FOV profiles

GOES

AWIPS #5.2.2

Helms, SSD

1a

TBD

10

Microburst product upgrades

GOES

Active

G. Ellrod (ORA)

k (experimental)

ORA: GIMPAP

11

NESDIS/SSD should begin product validation of GOES sounding products (TPW) via collocation with radiosondes

GOES

Collocation software running

Holland, Daniels, G. Gray

TBD

12

Develop surface emissivity model and include within retrieval algorithm

GOES

Active;

R&D mode

Schmit/CIMSS,

Customer request form needed

13

Incorporate snow detection algorithm into cloud clearing algorithm

GOES

Inactive

Schmit/CIMSS

14

Improve resolution (horizontal, vertical, temporal) of first guess used in retrieval algorithm

GOES

Active

Daniels

15

Investigate using OPTRAN transmittance model as the forward model

GOES

Active

CIMSS and Daniels

Ground Systems

16

Investigate using OPTRAN transmittance model as the forward model

GOES

Active

CIMSS and Daniels

17