Topic: NCCF Product Upgrade 1.14.2

Date/Time Issued: February 27, 2024 1531 UTC

Product(s) or Data Impacted:  SAR Winds, SNPP/N20/N21 VPW (w/ BUFR), SNPP/N20/N21 OMPS V8TOs, SNPP/N20/N21 OMPS NP (w/ BUFR), MetOp-B/C/SNPP/N20/N21 SFR and blended SMOPS products

Date/Time of Initial Impact: March 6, 2024, TBD UTC

Date/Time of Expected End: March 6, 2024, TBD UTC

Length of Outage: TBD

Details/Specifics of Change:

The Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Winds, SNPP/N20/N21 VIIRS Polar Winds (VPW) (w/ BUFR), SNPP/N20/N21 OMPS SO2 Corrected Version 8 Total Ozone (V8TOs), SNPP/N20/N21 OMPS Nadir Profiler (NP) (w/ BUFR), MetOp-B/C/SNPP/N20/N21 Snowfall Rate (SFR), and blended Soil Moisture Operational Product System (SMOPS) products are being migrated from on-prem systems to NCCF. The test products are 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”.

All of the new products will be released from PDA OPS on March 6, 2024. The on-prem SAR Winds and SMOPS will be retired 60 days after they are in operation.

SNPP/N20/N21 CrIS RDR/SDR will pass through NCCF to PDA.

NOAA-21 SFR product is a beta version.

Updated products included in this release are:

Operational product generation of SAR Winds Product in NCCF:

Impact on users: Yes (RadarSAT2) No (RCM-1/2/3-New Products)

PDA short name and File name changes are listed:

Operational product generation of VIIRS_WINDS_NH in NCCF:

Impact on users: Yes

PDA short name remains the same and file name changes are listed:

List of Scientific Changes: The VPW algorithm has been upgraded to the enterprise version. Also removes solar zenith cutoff for polar winds to address an issue where good quality winds targets were being filtered out.

Operational product generation of VIIRS_WINDS_SH in NCCF:

Impact on users: Yes

PDA short name remains the same and file name changes are listed:

List of Scientific Changes:  The VPW algorithm has been upgraded to the enterprise version. Also removes solar zenith cutoff for polar winds to address an issue where good quality winds targets were being filtered out.

Operational product generation of VIIRS_WINDS_NB_BUFR in NCCF:

Impact on users: Yes

No PDA shortname change

List of Scientific Changes: The Same as VIIRS_WINDS_NH and VIIRS_WINDS_SH.

Operational product generation of SNPP/NOAA-20/NOAA-21 V8TOs Product in NCCF:

Impact on users: Yes

No PDA short name changes. The product file name changes are listed as below:

Operational product generation of SNPP/NOAA-20/NOAA-21 OMPS NP V8Pro Product in NCCF:

Impact on users: Yes

No PDA short name change. File name changes are listed:

Operational Product Generation of MetOp-B/C and SNPP/NOAA-20/NOAA-21 Snow Fall Rate (SFR) in NCCF:

Impact on users: No. New Products

PDA short names and file names:

List of Scientific Changes: None. NOAA-21 SFR product is a beta version.

Operational product generation of SNPP/N20/N21 CrIS Pass-through Products via NCCF:

Impact on users: No.

PDA short names and product file names are listed as below:

Operational product generation of SMOPS Product in NCCF:

Impact on users: No (New Products)

PDA short name and File name are listed:

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 Liqun Ma (liqun.ma@noaa.gov), Vaishali Kapoor (vaishali.kapoor@noaa.gov) and Hongming Qi (hongming.qi@noaa.gov).

Contact Information: For information on the status of this work, please contact the individual PAL or ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov or 301-817-3880

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