Graphical programs used for the monitoring of environmental satellite products with the NOAA Products Validation System (NPROVS)

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NOAA/NESDIS) produces operational global temperature and moisture soundings from several polar-orbiting and geostationary satellites. Within the NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR), the function of centralized scientific monitoring and validation of operational atmospheric derived product systems for Advanced-TOVS (ATOVS), Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), Microwave Integrated retrieval System (MIRS), GOES, Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) and Constellation Observing System for Meteorology Ionosphere and Climate (COSMIC) is provided by the NOAA Products Validation System (NPROVS). 

As part of the NPROVS, a comprehensive system of graphical programs was developed in order to provide users with the ability to view and analyze the data and also to perform short-term and longer term trend analysis of the data. The following report highights each of the graphical programs and demonstrates how the programs are used to provide users with many different views of the data. Each program's user interface will be shown in order to demonstrate the primary features.

Also discussed will be the output of each program. Graphs of satellite profile comparisons, vertical accuracy statistics, and images of satellite parameters will be used to show how the NPROVS system is used by scientists to monitor, evaluate and compare the data that are produced by all of the satellite systems.

The contents of this report do not necessarily reflect any position of the United States government or the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.