Status of the Development and Performance of Enterprise and Stereo Winds at NOAA

NOAA continues to expand its Atmospheric Motion Vector (AMV) capabilities to produce atmospheric winds from measurements obtained from a cadre of geostationary (GEO) and Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellites. Over the past few years, numerous development efforts have been aimed at improving existing wind retrieval algorithm approaches while also developing new ones. These efforts include the development of an enterprise AMV algorithm that can produce AMVs from NOAA and non-NOAA GEO and LEO satellites/instruments and a stereo winds capability that enables the generation of stereo winds from various combinations of GEO-GEO and GEO-LEO satellites/instruments. The goal of these efforts is to provide satellite derived wind observations that improve the use of this wind information in existing and new applications. This talk will focus on the performance (geographic coverage, comparisons to rawinsonde winds, GFS analysis winds) of the enterprise and stereo winds and impact assessments of these by some numerical weather prediction (NWP) centers.