Operational Wind Products at NOAA/NESDIS
This paper summarizes the status of the operational wind products at NOAA/NESDIS. Recent improvement, new additions, processing changes and monitors, future plans of the operational Atmospheric Motion Vector (AMV) product suite will be discussed. The current satellite constellation for operational AMV winds processing includes GOES-16/18, VIIRS from S-NPP, NOAA-20 and NOAA-21, AVHRR from NOAA and MetOp series, and MODIS from Terra and Aqua. Besides the currently operational AMV products, some updates in NOAA/NESDIS AMV products and product generation have been and will be implemented. These updates include the transition from on-prem system to NESDIS Common Clouds Framework (NCCF), the implementation of Enterprise Clouds and Winds, data access policy, and other future plans like the retirement of MODIS and NOAA series AMV will be presented. In addition, an overview of the operational ASCAT and upcoming OceanSAT3 ocean surface wind products at NOAA/NESDIS is also presented.
