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GOES-R Downward and Reflected Shortwave Radiation

March 4, 2024

Name of product or service: 

GOES-R Downward and Reflected Shortwave Radiation

Type of change:

  • Termination of 25km CONUS Downward Shortwave Radiation product
  • Termination of the 5km Mesoscale Downward Shortwave Radiation product
  • Termination of the 25km CONUS Reflected Shortwave Radiation product

Description:

NESDIS plans to discontinue the production of the operational GOES-R Downward Shortwave Radiation (DSR) and Reflected Shortwave Radiation (RSR) products for the CONUS and Mesoscale Sectors only. At the same time, NESDIS will increase the Full Disk spatial resolution from 50 km (DSR) and 25 km (RSR) to 2 km for both and the increase the temporal resolution from 60 to 10 minutes. NESDIS is not aware of any users of the CONUS or Mesoscale DSR or RSR products.

Product retirement is planned for April 15, 2024

Point of contact:

Thomas Feroli: thomas.feroli@noaa.gov

Send comments to:

A 30-day comment period is now open for users to send objections or concerns about this product retirement.  Send comments to thomas.feroli@noaa.gov