A storm system will continue to produce widespread showers and thunderstorms as it progresses eastward across the central U.S. into the Northeast through the weekend. There are risks of severe thunderstorms and excessive rainfall on Saturday from the Ozarks into the mid-Mississippi River Valley with potential for damaging winds, large hail, tornadoes, and flash flooding. Read More >
NESDIS is preparing to replace a GOES-N series satellite with a GOES-R series satellite.
NWS is consolidating the management of dissemination services, under a program called the Integrated Dissemination Program (IDP)
IT Security threats require NOAA to periodically updating controls and procedures to minimize the risk of potential EMWIN operational impacts.
Improved data products for hemispheric re-transmission
Requires new antenna and receiver hardware
Documents and updates to be posted on the GOES-R website:
LRIT / EMWIN On GOES –N Series |
HRIT/EMWIN On GOES-R Series |
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Full Disk, NH, SH images | 3 Hourly Full Disk; .5 hour NH/SH; follows GOES East/West Schedule. RSO issue |
Variable but planned 3 Channels of Full Disk every 15 minutes |
Modulation | LRIT BPSK EMWIN offset QPSK |
BPSK |
Receiver Center Frequency | LRIT 1691.0 MHz (L-Band) EMWIN 1692.7 MHz (L-Band) |
1694.1 MHz (L-Band) |
Data Rate | LRIT 128 Kbps EMWIN 19.2 Kbps |
400 Kbps |
Antenna Coverage | Earth Coverage to 50 | Earth Coverage to 50 |
Imagery Data Sources | GOES-N Imager (IR,VIS,WV) MTSAT Imager |
ABI (3 or more bands) HBI (3 bands hourly-GOES W |
EMWIN Products | Full Suite of Current Products | Combined w/ LRIT Products |
GOES DCS | Copy of DCS observations | Copy of observations |