NOAA/NESDIS' Progress on a GOES Fundamental Climate Data Record

A recent joint initiative between EUMETSAT, JMA and NOAA addresses a CGMS action to make better use of the geostationary ring of weather satellite observations around the globe. This presentation will update the University of Wisconsin – Madison (UW) and NOAA/NESDIS contributions to this action. The Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) on the campus of the UW houses an inventory of digital geostationary weather satellite data stretching back to SMS-1 from 1974 and includes SMS-1-2, GOES-1-7 (Mode A, AA, AAA) and GOES-8-15 (GVAR). A portion of the NOAA/NESDIS GEO funded project has been to rescue data from existing sources of archived SMS-1-2 and GOES-1-7 and store onto an online archive. A second UW project has prototyped a method to remap the GVAR data onto a fixed grid in an easily readable L1b format. The Clouds from the Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer Extended (CLAVR-x) processing framework has been modified to read and process cloud algorithms using the remapped GVAR data. Leveraging a GOES 8-15 visible calibration effort completed in 2022, this project will attempt to calibrate the visible channels on SMS and GOES 1-7 using a reference derived from the ABI imagers on GOES 16-18.