Real-time Data Access and POES Updates

NOAA/NESDIS Polar Orbiting Satellite Sounding Evaluator (POSSE)
Visit this site to view and evaluate the latest polar satellite sounding data and derived products. Browse plan view plots of level data and clickable maps to view individual sounding profiles and cross sections. The POSSE system is currently configured to allow access to NOAA satellite sounding data produced by the ATOVS Processing System.

NOAA/NESDIS POES Quantitative Satellite Products
Provides access to sounding products from the NOAA (civilian) RTOVS, ATOVS, and DMSP (military) sounding systems. The new sounding system, ATOVS, uses NOAA-15 radiance data from the new instruments, HIRS/3 and AMSU-A. Also includes a link to POSSE, an interactive system allowing access to individual sounding retrievals spanning the globe.

NOAA/NESDIS/ORA/Hydrology Team/Microwave Remote Sensing Page
This site provides access to real-time NOAA-AMSU and DMSP-SSM/I datasets spanning a large range of operational as well as experimental products.

NOAA/NESDIS Microwave Surface and Precipitation Products System (MSPPS)
This site provides access to a variety of AMSU products from NOAA polar satellites. MSPPS produces near-real-time operational surface and precipitation products from AMSU-A and -B brightness temperatures. Products presently include total precipitable water, cloud liquid water, rain rate, snow cover, and sea ice concentration.

CIRA's AMSU Web site
This site provides information relevant to the AMSU and derived products and includes a capability to browse real-time AMSU products as they appear prior to dissemination to various NWS AWIPS sites.

NOAA/NESDIS Marine Observing Systems Team
This site provides links to real-time SSM/I products, scatterometer wind data, and other data related to ocean properties.

NWS Alaska Region - Real-time POES and GOES Satellite Imagery
This site provides browse imagery of real-time POES, GOES, and GMS products generated for operations by the NWS Alaska Region.

NCEP/EMC/OMB (Ocean Modeling Branch) Sea Ice Home Page
This site provides links to products and information on sea ice analysis from satellite and its uses in regional analyses and global modeling. OMB microwave-based sea ice products currently support sea ice analysis efforts at the Anchorage Alaska WSFO, as well as sea ice and weather modeling activities at NCEP. Follow the "Daily Sea Ice Analyses" link for product examples.

NRL Monterey Satellite Meteorology Home Page
This site provides a browse capability for near-real-time DMSP SSM/I and GOES image products for select coastal and oceanic regions spanning the globe.

NOAA/NESDIS Office of Satellite Operations Home Page - GOES and POES Status Reports

NOAA/NESDIS Office of Systems Development (OSD) POES Page - POES Specific News and Information

NGDC's (National Geophysical Data Center) DMSP Web site
(follow "Data Availability" link)

Online References

NOAA KLM USER'S GUIDE

NOAA POD (Polar Orbiter Data) User's Guide

NGDC's (National Geophysical Data Center) DMSP Web site
(follow first two links)

NASA POES Project Office

Other Online Training and Decision Aids

NRL (Navy Research Laboratory) Monterey Tutorial on DMSP SSM/I

NRL Monterey Satellite Meteorology Home Page
By clicking the "NRL Products Training" link, visitors have access to tutorials organized by meteorological phenomena and parameter for microwave products derived from the DMSP SSM/I and VIS/IR products derived from GOES. Each tutorial also includes a "Current Products" link for viewing relevant products in real-time.

Other COMET Sponsored Training Resources

COMET Satellite Meteorology Course Homepage

Integrated Sensor Training Professional Development Series
(see PCU #6 - Using Satellite Data and Products)