NOAA NESDIS provides vertical atmospheric profiles of atmospheric soundings derived from Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) and Advanced TIROS (Television and Infrared Observation Satellite) Operational Vertical Sounding (ATOVS) systems. GOES sensors are aboard GOES-11 (West) and GOES-12 (East). ATOVS sensors are aboard the NOAA-15 and 18 series of Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites (POES) and the European Meteorological Operational satellite (MetOp-2). In an effort to ensure consistent levels of service and quality assurance for these suites of products, the Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution (OSDPD) is implementing and executing new, innovative tools to better monitor performance and quality of the operational GOES and POES sounder and imager products being generated. The incorporation of these tools in both the Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR) and the OSDPD will facilitate the joint diagnosis and resolution of problems when detected in the operational environment. To provide a means of evaluating GOES Soundings McIDAS (Man computer Interactive Data Access System) Meteorological Data (MD) files via the Web, the OSDPD has implemented software created by STAR to produce hourly SKEW-T diagrams for over 450 sites across the U.S., Mexico, Caribbean, Western Atlantic, Eastern Pacific, and Southern Canada (including 24 hr archive) from GOES Soundings MD files. There is HTML code to display the output on the Satellite Services Division (SSD) web site. In order to leverage off the GOES capability and associated software, the OSDPD SSD has developed POES sounder SKEW-T web pages that will compliment the GOES pages.

This poster will explain the software developed by STAR and SSD to generate GOES and POES SKEW-T diagrams and display them via the Web.