Despite a few early glitches in the product delivery, the UAH CI product is now flowing into the SPC Hazardous Weather Testbed AWIPS and N-AWIPS workstations regularly. The posted pic (above) is the first image that was received for "real-time" display in this year's newly created Convective Initiation desk.
From the time of the first GOES scan line (the image time stamp), it took only 10 minutes for the data to be processed, delivered, and displayed..... This is a significant advantage over the time latency issues the UAH CI product had from last year (our first year of "real-time" processing and evaluation). This is typical for Northern Hemisphere scans from GOES. For pure CONUS scans from GOES, it generally only takes about 8 minutes to accomplish the same process. From the moment the GOES data is downloaded, it takes a mere ~1.5 - 2.5 minutes to process it and produce the CI output forecast.
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