Update #1: The SAROPS TC product table for PDA short names has been updated 


Topic: NCCF Product Upgrade 1.25-3.2 products  


Date/Time Issued:  May 29, 2025 1802Z UTC


Product(s) or Data Impacted:  

 

Date/Time of Initial Impact: June 17, 2025, 1700 UTC 


Date/Time of Expected End: June 17, 2025, 1800 UTC


Length of Outage: None


Details/Specifics of Change: 


The Synthetic Aperture Radar Ocean Products System (SAROPS) Tropical Cyclone (TC) Winds products will be transitioned from research to operations, and the Enterprise Total Ozone (GOME and JPSS V8TOz) updates will be promoted to NCCF OPS on June 17, 2025 and PDA OPS on June 24, 2025. 


 Updated products included in this release are:


Operational product generation of SAR TC Winds from Sentinel-1A, RadarSat-2, RCM-1, RCM-2, and RCM-3 in NetCDF4 and GeoTIFF format:


Impact on users: No

PDA product file name changes: New

List of product files:

PDA shortname

Platform

Product filename description

SAROPS_SAR-TC_WINDS

Sentinel-1A, RCM1,RCM2,RCM3, RadarSat-2

SAR TC Winds products in NetCDF4 format

Regex:

SAR-TCW-{stormID}_{polar}_{cLat}_{cLon}_{ver#}_{satID}_s*_e*_c*.nc 

SAROPS_SAR-TC_WINDS_GEOTIFF

Sentinel-1A, RCM1,RCM2,RCM3, RadarSat-2

SAR TC Winds products in GeoTIFF format

Regex:

SAR-TCW-{stormID}_{polar}_{cLat}_{cLon}_{ver#}_{satID}_s*_e*_c*.tif

where,

  {stormID}: 2-char basin followed by storm number, e.g. ‘SH29’

  {polar}: polarization,  ‘VH’ or ‘HV’

  {cLat}, {cLon}: storm center lat and lon, e.g, ‘16S’, ‘121E’ 

  {ver#}: version number , ‘v2r0’

  {satID}: satellite ID, ‘s1a’, ‘rsat2’,’rcm1’, ‘rcm2’, ‘rcm3’

List of Scientific Changes: New products.

Operational product generation of the Enterprise Total Ozone (GOME and JPSS V8TOz) products in NCCF: 


Impact on users: Yes, updated LUT for JPSS V8TOZ, No impact for GOME 


PDA product file name changes: Yes, for JPSS V8TOZ                                                         No filename changes for GOME


List of product file changes:

V8TOZ_EDR

NPP, N20, N21

V8TOZ-EDR_v4r5_n21_s202505230250501_e202505230251276_c202505230318210.nc

 



V8TOS_EDR

NPP, N20, N21

V8TOS-EDR_v4r5_n21_s202505230813089_e202505230813464_c202505231018065.nc

 



OMPS_TC_V8_BUFR

NPP, N20, N21

OMPS-TC_v4r5_n21_s202505230638226_e202505230639001_c202505230723420.bufr


List of Scientific Changes: Yes, Updated LUT for JPSS V8TOZ

                                              No Scientific Changes for GOME

Please note: This upgrade will not be performed during Critical Weather Day (CWD).

Also, the contents of this release are subject to change based on user readiness, customer feedback, and management approval.

Additional ESPC notifications will provide further details and updates concerning this release.  User feedback and questions should be directed to Aiwu Li (aiwu.li@noaa.gov),  Vaishali Kapoor (vaishali.kapooer@noaa.gov). Contact Information: For information on the status of this work, please contact the individual PAL or ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov or 301-817-3880

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