Topic: NDE System Upgrade

Date/Time Issued: March 13, 2023 2108Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted: All NDE products

Date/Time of Initial Impact: April 13, 2023 TBD

Date/Time of Expected End: April 13, 2023 TBD

Length of Outage: TBD

Details/Specifics of Change:

The April 13, 2023 installation of NDE release 2.0.36 is planned to occur while JPSS satellites are in back orbits. NDE will not be ingesting, processing or distributing data during installation. No data loss is expected, but there will be a possible backlog of processing when installation is complete.

New/Updated products included in this release are:

Operational Update of Blended Hydro Products on NDE to Version 2.0:

Impact on users: Yes

File names have changed to:

PDA Shortname	Old Filename	New Filename
BHP_TPW	BHP-TPW_v01r1_blend_s*	BHP-TPW_v02r0_blend_s*

BHP_PCT	BHP-PCT_v01r1_blend_s*	BHP-PCT_v02r0_blend_s*

BHP_RR	BHP-RR_v01r1_blend_s*	BHP-RR_v02r0_blend_s*

List of Scientific Changes:

1) Blended hydro code has been changed to process Metop-C MIRS data.

2) Blended hydro code has been updated to fix missing blended TPW over snow and ice surfaces.

3) The file global attribute ‘Metadata_Link” will be changed to “metadata_link”.

Operational Update of BUFR reformat toolkit version 5.5 on NDE:

Impact on users: Yes

No product file name changes, but this upgrade will impact the following BUFR products

	PDA Shortname	Product Filename
ACSPO BUFR	ACSPO_VIIRS_LeftWithLand_BUFR ACSPO_VIIRS_Clear_BUFR ACSPO_VIIRS_ProbClear_BUFR	VIIRS-ACSPO-SST-LeftWithLand_v2r80_<sat>_s<yyyymmddhhmmsss>_e<yyyymmddhhmmsss>_c<yyyymmddhhmmsss>.bufr VIIRS-ACSPO-SST-Clear_v2r80_<sat>_s<yyyymmddhhmmsss>_e<yyyymmddhhmmsss>_c<yyyymmddhhmmsss>.bufr VIIRS-ACSPO-SST-ProbClear_v2r80_<sat>_s<yyyymmddhhmmsss>_e<yyyymmddhhmmsss>_c<yyyymmddhhmmsss>.bufr
OMPS V8Pro BUFR	OMPS_NP_V8_BUFR	OMPS-NP_v4r2_<sat>_s<yyyymmddhhmmsss>_e<yyyymmddhhmmsss>_c<yyyymmddhhmmsss>.bufr
VIIRS I5 BUFR	VIIRS_I5_BUFR	VIIRSI5_v2r0_<sat>_s<yyyymmddhhmmsss>_e<yyyymmddhhmmsss>_c<yyyymmddhhmmsss>.bufr
VIIRS M4 BUFR	VIIRS_M4_BUFR	VIIRSM4_v2r0_<sat>_s<yyyymmddhhmmsss>_e<yyyymmddhhmmsss>_c<yyyymmddhhmmsss>.bufr

List of Scientific Changes:

1) Add the brightness temperature (BT) in the ACSPO BUFR

2) Removed the filled value in the OMPS V8Pro BUFR

3) Replace the none-terrain-corrected geolocation data with the terrain-corrected geolocation data for VIIRS M4 and I5 BUFR

Operational Update of JPSS Risk Reduction Framework Recompile:

Impact on users: No

No product file name changes.

List of Scientific Changes: None.

Recompile the framework under RH 7 OS.

Please note: This upgrade will not be performed during Critical Weather Day (CWD).

Also, the contents of this release are subject to change based on user readiness, customer feedback, and management approval.

Additional ESPC notifications will provide further details and updates concerning this release. User feedback and questions should be directed to Shuang Qiu shuang.qiu@noaa.gov or Changyi Tan (acting) changyi.tan@noaa.gov

Contact Information: For information on the status of this work, please contact Shuang Qiu shuang.qiu@noaa.gov or ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov or 301-817-3880

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