Employer: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Title: Chief Administrative Judge
Location: Maryland and Alabama
Research Areas: Lightning Patterns, Power, Short-Term Forecasts
Pathfinder Topic: Power Production and/or Radar Outages
- Dr. Goodman provides expertise to user communities that use lightning data. Applications include assessing the climate analysis portion of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite – R (GOES-R) Series economic assessment, helping Sandia National Labs create a global climate observing system, and improving NASA’s energy training models.
- Dr. Goodman is interested in helping NOAA create a threat map using GLM and other space-based and ground based global measurements of lightning to mitigate risk for the power industry, and in working with NOAA’s Severe Storms Laboratory to simulate convection forecasts to the benefit of the insurance industry.
- In a related project, he has been involved with DOE Sandia labs, working to reprocess decades of global space-based lightning observations that cover the Arctic, which, if successful, would be integrated into the ECV Lightning data set already planned.
- The first Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) launched into orbit aboard the first Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R-series (GOES-R), becoming GOES-16 after reaching geostationary orbit on 29 November 2016. The GLM on GOES-16 is the first of four instruments providing lightning mapping over most of the western hemisphere through 2036. The GLM performance meets or exceeds all program specifications, but the data quality will continue to improve. Simultaneous development and implementation efforts aim to improve the operational utility of the GLM data. New visualizations have been developed for the NWS Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) software.
Relevant Satellite Products, Data, and Tools
NOAA/NESDIS’s Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM)