Update #2: This is a reminder that the VIIRS COMP, CCL, CBH, AOD, and ADP Products will be Operational (distribution through NCCF) on May 16, 2023
Update #1: The JRR_AOD_BUFR will be included in this release along with the JPSSRR_AOD.
Topic: Declaring VIIRS COMP, CCL, CBH, AOD, and ADP Products Operational in NCCF
Date/Time Issued: May 9, 2023 1757 UTC
Product(s) or Data Impacted: SNPP/NOAA-20 VIIRS COMP/CCL/CBH/AOD/ADP
Date/Time of Initial Impact: May 16, 2023
Date/Time of Expected End: May 16, 2023
Length of Outage: N/A
Details/Specifics of Change:
The JPSS Risk Reduction (JRR or JPSSRR) Cloud Optical and Microphysical Properties (COMP), Cloud Cover Layers (CCL), Cloud Base Height (CBH), Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD), and Aerosol Detection Product (ADP) products for SNPP and NOAA-20 and NOAA-21 (pre-beta) are being migrated from NDE on-prem to NESDIS Common Cloud Framework (NCCF). These SNPP and NOAA-20 products are planned to be declared operational in NCCF on May 16, 2023. Since NOAA-21 products will be pre-beta at that time, they will stay in PDA I&T (not distributed to PDA OPS).The PDA short names and product file names will remain the same during this migration. The test products have been available on PDA I&T now. Users can start subscribing to these data products from PDA I&T. The test data product short names are appended with “_TEST”.
Updated products included in this release are:
Operational product generation of JPSSRR Cloud DCOMP in NCCF:
Impact on users: Yes
No PDA shortname change
List of Scientific Changes: (Update for visible reflectance and thick clouds. Adds snow modification routine. Add N21 LUTs. Add the new Nighttime Lunar COMP module to calculate microphysical properties during nighttime granules and when lunar reflectances are valid (moon is shining over the surface). Change Max Solar Zenith from 75 to 82)
Operational product generation of JPSSRR Cloud NCOMP in NCCF:
Impact on users: Yes
No PDA shortname change
List of Scientific Changes: NONE
Operational product generation of JPSSRR Cloud CCL in NCCF:
Impact on users: Yes
New Products
List of Scientific Changes: (Add Cloud Base as a dependency. Add DQF. Add capabilities for Convective Cloud Probability & Supercooled Water at 5 flight layers)
Operational product generation of JPSSRR CBH in NCCF:
Impact on users: Yes
No PDA shortname change
List of Scientific Changes: NONE
Operational product generation of JPSSRR AOD in NCCF:
Impact on users: Yes
No PDA shortname change
List of Scientific Changes: (Fix the initialization and pointers. Change to use 17 class Surface Types rather than 14 class Surface Types)
Operational product generation of JRR_AOD_BUFR in NCCF:
Impact on users: Yes
No PDA shortname change