The operational Microwave Integrated Retrieval System (MIRS) aims to upgrade the NESDIS current operational Microwave Surface and Precipitation Products System (MSPPS) and build a one-stop shop for microwave products from various satellites with different instrumental configurations. With the capability of providing optimal and physically-based retrievals of atmospheric and surface state parameters, the operational MIRS will produce advanced near-real-time surface and precipitation products in all-weather and over all-surface conditions using brightness temperatures from the microwave instruments, which include AMSU-A and AMSU-B/MHS instruments on board of NOAA and EUMETSAT polar orbiting satellites, SSMIS on DMSP polar satellites and ATMS/CIM on NPP/NPOESS. The targeted operational products will include: vertical profiles of temperature and moisture, rainfall rate, total precipitable water, cloud liquid water, snow cover, snow water equivalent, sea ice concentration, ice water path, surface emissivity spectra and land surface temperature. These products will be made operationally available to users with different types (orbital, granule/Area of Interests, daily, monthly) and formats (Binary, HDF-EOS/HDF, BUFR, NetCDF, McIDAS and AWIPS) through a multi-year stratified phase approach.
With the current MiRS v3.0, the operational products from NOAA-18 and MetOp-A include: temperature profile over ocean, moisture profiles over ocean and non-coastal land, total precipitable water over ocean and non-costal land, cloud liquid water over ocean, rain water path, ice water path, snow cover, sea ice concentration, snow water equivalent, land surface temperature, surface emissivity over land and snow for all AMSU-A and MHS channels. The operational products from DMSP SSMIS include: total precipitable water over ocean, land surface temperature, surface emissivity over land and snow for all SSMIS channels. The SSMIS temperature and moisture profiles over ocean are also made available to users as Demo products from the MiRS v3.0 release.
The MIRS retrospective data have being archived since August 30, 2007 starting from version 1.0, and can be acquired from the National Climatic Data Center and the Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System.
Provided here is a web tool for monitoring the product quality, accuracy and timeliness. The program checks to see if the application is being run efficiently, and products are generated and distributed to users in a timely manner. A status report is generated for each processing modules in the MIRS application in a real-time mode, so any potential problem can be promptly identified and corrected in time. Monitoring the product generation latency is another primary objective here for providing quality service to the real-time users.
NOAA Data Processing | METOP Data Processing | DMSP Data Processing |
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Orbital Data |
Orbital Data |
Orbital Data |
Time-of-Day Data |
Time-of-Day Data |
Time-of-Day Data |
NOAA Products Distribution | METOP Data Distribution | DMSP Products Distribution |
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Orbital Data |
Orbital Data |
Orbital Data |
Time-of-Day Data (N/A) |
Time-of-Day Data (N/A) |
Time-of-Day Data (N/A) |
NOAA Orbital Data Timeline | METOP Orbital Data Timeline | DMSP Orbital Data Timeline |
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NOAA-18 |
METOP-A |
DMSP-F16 |
Input Data Latency (mins) | 0 - 30 | 31 - 60 | 61 - 90 | 91 - 120 | 121 - 180 | 181 - 240 | greater than 240 |
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NOAA-18 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
NOAA-19 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
METOP-A | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
METOP-B | 20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
DMSP-F18 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Last Modified on August 23, 2007 (by J.Yang)
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