20010401: GOES 12 replacing GOES 8-ADMIN NOTICE NOUS42 KWNO (fwd)

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• Subject: 20010401: GOES 12 replacing GOES 8-ADMIN NOTICE NOUS42 KWNO (fwd)
• From: Linda Miller <lmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 07:29:45 -0700

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NOUS42 KWNO 011320
ADMNFD


*****   NOTICE   *****

ON TUESDAY...APRIL 1...2003 AT APPROXIMATELY 1815Z
GOES-12...FORMERLY KNOWN AS GOES-M...REPLACES GOES-8 AS THE
OPERATIONAL GOES EAST SATELLITE.

ONCE ACTIVATED AS GOES EAST...GOES-12 WILL OPERATE ACCORDING
TO THE GOES EAST SCHEDULES AND SCANNING STRATEGIES.  ESSENTIALLY
GOES-12 WILL OPERATE AS GOES-8 PRESENTLY DOES.

THERE ARE SOME DIFFERENCES IN THE GOES-8 AND GOES-12 IMAGER
INSTRUMENTS.  THESE CAN BE FOUND ON THE WEB PAGE...ALL LOWER CASE.

http://www.oso.noaa.gov/goes/goes-calibration/change-channels.htm

ADDITIONALLY...A DESCRIPTION OF THE GOES EAST IMAGERY SECTORS AND
DATA FORMATS APPEARS IN THE...ICD FOR AWIPS-NESDIS...AVAILABLE FROM

http://205.156.54.206/noaaport/html/refs.shtml ...ALL LOWER CASE...

THIS ICD WAS UPDATED TO INCLUDE INFORMATION ON THE GOES-12 SECTORS.

ONE POINT...ALTHOUGH GOES-12 WILL INITIALLY HAVE RSO CAPABILITIES.
IT WILL // NOT // HAVE SRSO CAPABILITY UNTIL 04/26/03 ONCE
GOES-12 IS STOPPED AT 75W.

WHITMORE/SDM/NCO/NCEP
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