The Community Satellite Processing Package (CSPP) project is pleased to announce the release of the NOAA/NESDIS/STAR Microwave Integrated Retrieval System (MIRS) for retrieval of atmospheric profile and surface parameters from ATMS, AMSU-A, and MHS microwave sensor data. MIRS development is led by Sid-Ahmed Boukabara at the NOAA NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR). This release provides MIRS version 9.2 adapted and tested for operation in a real-time direct broadcast environment.
Supported satellites, sensors, and data include:
• Suomi NPP ATMS SDR (from CSPP or CLASS)
• NOAA 18 and 19 AMSU-A and MHS Level 1B (from AAPP)
• Metop-A and Metop-B AMSU-A and MHS Level 1B (from AAPP)
Official Validated Products created by MIRS include:
• Temperature profile over open water ocean
• Humidity profile over open water ocean
• Humidity Profile over non-coastal Land
• Total Precipitable Water (TPW) over open water ocean
• Total Precipitable Water over non-coastal land
• Land surface temperature
• Surface Emissivity over land and snow
• Surface Type Classification
• Snow Water Equivalent (SWE)
• Sea Ice Concentration (SIC)
• Snow Cover Extent (SCE)
• Vertically-Integrated Non-precipitating Cloud Liquid Water (CLW) over open water ocean
• Vertically-Integrated Graupel Water Path (IWP)
• Vertically-Integrated Rain Water Path (RWP)
• Rainfall Rate (RR) over open water ocean and non-coastal, non-snow-covered land surface types
Experimental Products (not fully validated) created by MIRS include:
• Cloud Liquid Water Profile (CLWP) over ocean
• Surface Temperature (skin) extended to snow-covered land surface type
• Surface Temperature (skin) extended to open ocean water
• Effective grain size of snow (over snow-covered land surface)
• Multi-Year (MY) Type Sea Ice Concentration
• First-Year (FY) Type Sea Ice Concentration
System requirements for the CSPP_MIRS v1.0 software are as follows:
• Intel or AMD CPU with 64-bit instruction support,
• 1 GB RAM
• CentOS-6 64-bit Linux (or other compatible 64-bit Linux distribution),
• 1 GB of disk space (plus space for your own DB data and CSPP_MIRS products).
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_MIRS v1.0 software package contains binary executable files, driver scripts, static ancillary data files, detailed documentation, and test data for verification of a successful installation. The CSPP_MIRS v1.0 software can be downloaded from:
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/cspp/
Regards,
Liam Gumley.
On behalf of the CSPP team at SSEC.