| Session 4 | 
|  | Expected Operational Improvements from NPP/NPOESS and GOES-R Data | 
|  | Cochairs: Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Madison, WI; Nancy Baker, NRL, Monterey, CA 
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|  | 10:30 AM | 4.1 | The ABI on GOES-R Timothy J. Schmit, ORA, Madison, WI; and J. Gurka and M. M. Gunshor
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|  | 10:45 AM | 4.2 | The Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) for GOES-R: A new operational capability to improve storm forecasts and warnings Steven J. Goodman, NOAA/NESDIS, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Blakeslee, W. J. Koshak, W. A. Petersen, L. Carey, and D. Mach
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|  | 11:00 AM | 4.3 | GOES-R and the mainstreaming of space weather S. M. Hill, NOAA/NWS/SWPC, Boulder, CO; and J. Green, T. Onsager, H. J. Singer, R. Viereck, M. Shouldis, L. Mayer, E. J. Rigler, and J. V. Rodriguez
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|  | 11:15 AM | 4.4 | Expected Operational Cloud Observation Improvements with VIIRS on NPP/NPOESS Andrew K. Heidinger, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI; and B. A. Baum, S. Platnick, P. Yang, and S. Berthier
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|  | 11:30 AM | 4.5 | The Expected Impacts of NPOESS Infrared Sounder Radiances on Operational Numerical Weather Prediction and Data Assimilation Systems Nancy Baker, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. C. Derber, A. Collard, F. Hilton, and B. Ruston
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|  | 11:45 AM | 4.6 | The Expected Impacts of NPOESS Microwave Radiances on Operational Numerical Weather Prediction and Data Assimilation Systems Steven D. Swadley, NRL, Monterey, CA; and N. Baker, B. Ruston, W. Bell, B. Candy, and T. J. Kleespies
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