Today we had our first debrief with our new group of forecasters. While most of yesterday was spent getting used to AWIPS II and building procedures, we did gather a few bits of feedback for some of the GOES-R products...
SATCAST / UW Cloud-top Cooling
- "I was impressed by the strength of signal over Western TX... it was low early in the day but then as things started to go in the evening, the values started rising with the increase of convection."
- It should be stressed that the UAH strength of signal is not necessarily a predictor of how strong the storms will be in the future, more of a measure of the confidence in the fact that the convection will initiate... that's where the UW CTC comes in, to tell you how strong this convection will be in the future and relate that to hail and radar features of severe weather.
- "I was looking at the CI products quite a bit yesterday because the OUN WRF kept insisting that convection was going to form... the UAH CI through the afternoon/evening stayed around 30 or so and we never got more than a couple of 20-30 min showers, so I think it did pretty good."
Simulated Satellite
- "I was really impressed with the simulated satellite... it was a 20 hour forecast and it got the timing and coverage of the convection spot on... It seemed to do an especially good job over orographic regions."
- "It didn't have any of the early convection that the OUN WRF kept insisting was going to happen but didn't."
Overall / Training
- The forecasters appreciated the one-on-one attention by the PIs to help explain the products on the first day. They also mentioned that if the PIs see anything interesting that the forecasters are missing (which happens a lot because of the amount of data they are looking at)... PIs shouldn't hesitate to step in and show them something, they don't mind being interrupted.
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