Operational Wind Products at NOAA/NESDIS
This paper summarizes the status of the operational wind products at NOAA/NESDIS. Recent improvement, new additions, processing changes and monitors, future plans of the operational Atmospheric Motion Vector (AMV) product suite will be discussed. The current satellite constellation for operational AMV winds processing includes new GOES-16/17, VIIRS from S-NPP and NOAA-20, AVHRR from NOAA and MetOp series, and MODIS from Terra and Aqua. Besides the currently operational AMV products, several improvements in NOAA/NESDIS AMV products have been and will be implemented. These improvements include the transition from heritage BUFR template to new BUFR template, the GTS distribution of NOAA AMV BUFR products, enhancement of VIIRS AMV, and MODIS and AVHRR AMV products by using GOES-R/VIIRS AMV algorithms. Updates on the status of these AMV products, new AMV BUFR template, data access policy, and other future plans like the migration to Cloud system will be presented. In addition, an overview of the operational ASCAT and ongoing SCATSAT ocean surface wind products at NOAA/NESDIS is also presented.
