Satellite Meteorology & Climatology Division (SMCD)

Project List

Environmental Monitoring Branch

• Atmospheric Aerosols
• Heavy Rain and Flash Floods
• GOES Aerosol/Smoke Product (GASP)
• Automated Snow Mapping
• Vegetation Health Image Products
• GOES Surface Insolation and Temperature

Operational Products Development Branch

• Convective Storm Forecasting Parameters (horizontal fields), from GOES Data
• High density, derived winds from GOES satellites
• GOES products for Aviation Use
• Primary forecast products from polar orbiting satellites (POES)

Sensor Physics Branch

• NOAA-18 Calibration/Validation Update
• Integrated Satellite Instrument Cal/Val System
• Community Radiative Transfer Model
• AIRS Near Real Time Processing
• MSU/AMSU Retrievals for Climate Applications
• Microwave Surface and Precipitation Products System
• Microwave Integrated Retrieval System
• SBUV Ozone Products
• Total Ozone Analysis using SBUV/2 and TOVS (TOAST)
• Air Quality Remote Sensing Program