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Topic: New Sensor Processing System (SPS) software release

Date/Time Issued: April 17, 2014 1800 UTC

Product(s) or Data Impacted: GOES-15 (GOES-West) Sounder data

Date/Time of Initial Impact: April 21, 2014 2045 UTC

Date/Time of Expected End: Permanent change

Length of Outage: Permanent change

Details/Specifics of Change: On April 21, 2014, a new Sensor Processing System (SPS) software version (10.4.1) will be released for GOES-15 (GOES-West). The new SPS release 10.4.1 replaces version 10.2 and corrects GOES-15 (GOES-West) Sounder shortwave channel (15) striping.

This problem was initially observed during GOES-15 Post-Launch Testing (PLT) and was discovered to be due to detector-to-detector and line-to-line (East to West vs. West to East) differences. The correction algorithm corrects both problems in real-time (line by line).

Contact Information for Further Information: ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov at 301-817-3880

Web Site(s) for applicable information:

See http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Operations/GOES/documents.html for more information, examples and related documents

GOES-15 Post-Launch Test: http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/projects/goes-p/

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