Patrick Duran (ST11), SPoRT tropical meteorology team lead and Deputy Program Applications Lead for NASA’s TROPICS mission, gave an invited presentation at NOAA’s Satellite Book Club (SBC) seminar series on 5/11/23. The SBC is a weekly virtual seminar with a target audience of operational forecasters across the country, focused on application of satellite data to weather forecasting. Duran gave an overview of the TROPICS mission, including information on orbit and sensor characteristics relevant to weather analysis and forecasting. He also presented some early examples of TROPICS data, such as brightness temperature imagery from the new 205-GHz channel, which has demonstrated an ability to characterize hurricane inner-core structure. This presentation included many attendees from NOAA’s National Hurricane Center, so it also highlighted low-latency data from the TROPICS Pathfinder satellite, which will improve forecasters’ ability to characterize hurricane structure and intensity as they develop forecast packages this hurricane season.
