Update #2: The product release date has been postponed to September 28, 2023.

Update #1: MetOp-B/C ASCAT UHR will be removed from this release due to the product not being ready. The NOAA-21 Volcanic Ash product has reached provisional maturity and will be included in this release.

Topic: NCCF Product Upgrade 1.12.3

Date/Time Issued: September 7, 2023 1849 UTC

Product(s) or Data Impacted:  OHC, RAVE, MetOp-B/C ASCAT UHR, N21 ADP, N21 VolcanicAsh and SNPP/N20/N21 eFire VIIRS I-Band

Date/Time of Initial Impact: September 28, 2023, TBD UTC

Date/Time of Expected End: September 28, 2023,  TBD UTC

Length of Outage: N/A

Details/Specifics of Change:

The satellite derived Ocean Heat Content (OHC),  SNPP/NOAA-20/GOES-16/17/18 blended Regional Advanced Baseline Imager and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Emissions (RAVE), MetOp-B/C Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) Ultra High Resolution (UHR) winds NOAA-21 Volcanic Ash and NOAA-21 Aerosol Detection Product (ADP) products are being migrated from on-prem systems to the NESDIS Common Cloud Framework (NCCF). The products are planned to be declared operational in NCCF and distributed from PDA OPS on September 28, 2023. The PDA short names and image file names for the NCCF OHC products have been modified and users will need to make necessary changes to their subscriptions. 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”.

Note:  The legacy on-prem OHC and ASCAT UHR will keep running in parallel for 60 days after the NCCF OHC and ASCAT UHR products are operationally available. They will be turned off afterwards.

Updated products included in this release are:

Operational product generation Ocean Heat Content Product Suite in NCCF:

Impact on users: Yes

PDA short name and image file name changes

List of Scientific Changes: New quality monitoring metadata has been added to the code, as suggested by the science team. Each basin now uses a predetermined latitude/longitude box of 1°x1° and calculates the average, standard deviation, and variance of the points in that box. The resolution of the product is 0.25°x0.25°, resulting in 25 points per calculation.

Operational product generation of SNPP/NOAA-20/GOES-16/17/18 Blended RAVE in NCCF:

Impact on users: No

New Products

PDA short names: 

List of Scientific Changes: N/A

Operational product generation ASCAT UHR winds Product in NCCF:

Impact on users: Yes

PDA short names and file names are changed/added

List of Scientific Changes: None

Operational product generation NOAA-21 ADP in NCCF:

Impact on users: No (New Product)

PDA short names and file names:

List of Scientific Changes: None

Operational product generation NOAA-21 Volcanic Ash in NCCF:

Impact on users: No (New Product)

PDA short names and file names:

List of Scientific Changes: None

OPERATIONAL PRODUCT UPDATES: SNPP/NOAA-20/NOAA-21 Enterprise Fire (eFire) VIIRS I-Band in NCCF:

Changes in this update:

The patch of the eFire VIIRS I-Band will correctly detect persistent hotspots over water. 

Impact on users: Yes.

No PDA short name changes

No PDA file name changes

Please note: This upgrade will not be performed during Critical Weather Day (CWD).

Also, the contents of this release are subject to change based on user readiness, customer feedback, and management approval.

Additional ESPC notifications will provide further details and updates concerning this release.  User feedback and questions should be directed to David Donahue (david.r.donahue@noaa.gov), Hanjun Ding (hanjun.ding@noaa.gov), Hongming Qi (hongming.qi@noaa.gov) and Vaishali Kapoor (vaishali.kapoor@noaa.gov).

Contact Information: For information on the status of this work, please contact David Donahue (david.r.donahue@noaa.gov), Hanjun Ding (hanjun.ding@noaa.gov), Hongming Qi (hongming.qi@noaa.gov) and Vaishali Kapoor (vaishali.kapoor@noaa.gov) or ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov or 301-817-3880

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