Product(s) or Data Impacted: All products from visible channel
Date/Time of Initial Impact: February
13, 2018 09:30Z
Date/Time of Expected End: Until Next Month's Coefficient Update
Length of Outage: N/A
Details and Specifics of Change:
On 13 February 2018, the following update of the calibration coefficients, based on post-launch vicarious calibration at NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, was implemented for the Imager visible channel of GOES-15 at 0930Z. These coefficients are intended to be optimal on 27 February, two weeks after the implementation date.
This notification no longer includes updates to the Imager visible channel calibration coefficients for GOES-13, since GOES-13 is no longer GOES-EAST.
GOES-15:
The following update of the calibration coefficients, based on post-launch vicarious calibration at NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, are recommended for the currently operational GOES Imager visible channel. These coefficients are to be implemented on the second Tuesday of the Update Month listed below and optimal on the fourth Tuesday of the Update Month (in the middle of the two scheduled updates).
Satellite: GOES-15
Update Month: February
Update Year: 2018
Current post-launch calibration
coefficient: 1.52686
Date: 2018030000000000
Previous post-launch calibration
coefficient: 1.52140
Date: 2017360000000000
Initial calibration coefficient: 1.0
Initial calibration date:
2001114000000000
Some definitions:
The date format is: YYYYDDDHHMMSSmmm, where YYYY = year, DDD = day of the year, HH = hour, MM = minute, SS = seconds,
mmm = msec.
The coefficient provided is a gain that is to be applied to the Visible channel counts-to-radiance conversion
Op_R = Coefficient * Pre_R
where Pre_R is pre-launch gain for the channel and Op_R is the new gain -- the gain after the coefficient listed as
"Current post-launch calibration coefficient" is applied.
The initial coefficient has been normalized to 1.0 for the purposes of this post-launch calibration.
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Questions:
Dejiang.Han Dejiang.Han@noaa.gov <mailto:Dejiang.Han@noaa.gov>
301-817-4119 operations support
Xiangqian Wu Xiangqian.Wu@noaa.gov
<mailto:Xiangqian.Wu@noaa.gov>
301-683-3601 instrument scientist
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