Today is a great opportunity to test the Simulated Satellite products! I created a 4 panel to compare the sim sat products with the real time IR. I also overlaid jet routes to get a better picture of the potential impacts to aviation. One downfall to using the jet route overlay in AWIPS is that unless you’re familiar with the routes, you have no idea what you’re looking at. Maybe some day we can get a mouse-over feature with the jet routes so that the user can identify the names of the jet routes.
Figure 1: SimSat Compare with Real Time IR (lower left)
Figure 1 is the 4 panel comparison of the simulated products and real time IR. Figure 2 is the simulated IR and water vapor with jet routes overlaid. You can see that at 22Z, should the forecast be right, that re-routs will definitely be in order! I am eager to see how accurate this product is today…this could mean great things for the CWSU/FAA folks! Figure 3 is just a zoomed in 22z Sim Sat WV forecast.
Figure 2: 22z SimSat Forecast
The image in the lower right is the 10.4-12.3um IR which can help to show areas of low level moisture (yellow). As the column continues to moisten, you’ll see the areas of blue develop. Blue areas indicate a difference of zero.
Figure 3: Convective Initiation Forecast and BOU Impacts
Stay tuned to see how well the Simulated Satellite products work out!
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