Topic: GOES-15 Visible Calibration Update for the Month of November 2019
Date/Time Issued: November 15, 2019 0116Z
Product(s) or Data Impacted: All products from visible channel
Date/Time of Initial Impact: November
12, 2019 0930Z
Date/Time of Expected End: Until Next Month's Coefficient Update
Length of Outage: N/A
Details and Specifics of Change:
On 12 November 2019, 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 26 November, 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, is recommended for the currently operational GOES-15 Imager visible channel. These coefficients are expected 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: November
Update Year: 2019
Current post-launch calibration
coefficient: 1.62988
Date: 2019302000000000
Previous post-launch calibration
coefficient: 1.62404
Date: 2019267000000000
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.
Contact Person(s) Name/Email/Phone Number for
Questions:
Paul Douglas, jpaul.douglas@noaa.gov, desk phone 301-817-4031operations support
Xiangqian Wu Xiangqian.Wu@noaa.gov <mailto:Xiangqian.Wu@noaa.gov> 301-763-8136 x 138 instrument scientist
Web site(s) that contain other relevant information (where applicable):
http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/spb/fwu/homepage/GOES_Imager_Vis_OpCal.php
Contact Information for Further Information: ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov at 301-817-3880 and/or other contacts as necessary