NUCAPS development is led by Walter Wolf and Lihang Zhou at the NOAA NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR). This CSPP release was created in close collaboration with Chris Barnet (the NOAA government science lead for NUCAPS from 2003 to 2013) and his staff of developers of the NUCAPS science code, Antonia Gambacorta and Nadia Smith.
This CSPP release provides NUCAPS Version 2.1, adapted and tested for operation in a real-time Direct Broadcast (DB) environment. The software contains binary executable files and supporting static data files, as well as input and output files for verification of a successful installation. Source code for the NUCAPS package is not included in this release.
What is new in CSPP NUCAPS CrIS/ATMS Version 2.1:
This is a minor upgrade to the previous CSPP NUCAPS Version 2.0 release, including:
- * Source code is based on NOAA DAPv4-3_20180716, which has reached NOAA Provisional Status as of this release date (October 2018).
* This release adds an option to create channel subsets, ready for conversion to BUFR, without running the NUCAPS retrieval (-k, --skipretrieval).
- * Cloud-cleared radiances (NUCAPS-CCR-AR_v2r0_*.nc files).
* Environmental Data Record (EDR) vertical profiles of temperature, moisture and trace gasses (NUCAPS-EDR_v2r0_*.nc files), and
- Atmospheric temperature [K] at 100 pressure levels
Atmospheric moisture [g/g] at 100 pressure levels
Atmospheric ozone [ppb] at 100 pressure levels
Atmospheric liquid water [g/g] at 100 pressure levels
Carbon dioxide dry mixing ratio [ppm] at 100 pressure levels
Trace gas mixing ratios CO, CH4, HNO3, N2O, SO2 [ppb] at 100 pressure levels
Surface skin temperature [K]
Microwave surface emissivity
Column averaged CO2 per AMSU Field-Of-View (FOV) [ppm]
Cloud top pressure for up to two cloud layers [hPa]
Cloud top fractional coverage for up to two cloud layers
10 Stability parameters including CAPE, Lifted Index (LI) and Convective Inhibition (CIN)
- Atmospheric temperature [K] at 100 pressure levels
• Intel or AMD CPU with 64-bit instruction support,
• 2 GB RAM,
• CentOS-6 64-bit Linux (or other compatible 64-bit Linux distribution),
• 6 GB of disk space (plus space for your own DB data and CSPP NUCAPS products),
• lftp utility for fetching ancillary data (unless running in quarantine mode).
CSPP development is led by the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with funding support from the NOAA/NASA Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS). The CSPP NUCAPS software and documentation can be downloaded from:
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/cspp/