Topic: NCCF System Upgrade 1.12.2

Date/Time Issued: July 31, 2023 1253 UTC

Product(s) or Data Impacted:  SNPP/N20/ N21 eFire VIIRS I-Band, SNPP/N20/N21 OMPS V8TOz, and GBBEPx

Date/Time of Initial Impact: August 29, 2023, TBD UTC

Date/Time of Expected End: August 29, 2023,  TBD UTC

Length of Outage: N/A

Details/Specifics of Change:

The satellite derived SNPP/N20/ N21 Enterprise Fire (eFire) VIIRS I-Band, SNPP/N20/N21 OMPS V8TOz , BUFR, and DSS Products are being migrated from on-prem systems to the NESDIS Common Cloud Framework (NCCF). The SNPP, NOAA-20, and NOAA-21 products are planned to be declared operational in NCCF on August 29, 2023. The PDA short names and product file names for V8TOz will remain the same during this migration. The test products have been available on PDA I&T now. Users can start subscribing to these data products from PDA I&T. The test data product short names are appended with “_TEST”.

This NCCF upgrade 1.12.2 also includes the GBBEPx v4 upgrade.

Note: Both NDE VIIRS Active Fire (AF) I-Band & and and NCCF eFire VIIRS I-Band will be distributed via PDA from August 29, 2023 through November 30, 2023. NDE VIIRS Active Fire (AF) I-Band and and will be turned off on November 30, 2023. After November 30, 2023, only NCCF eFire VIIRS I-Band will be continuously operationally distributed through PDA.

Please make the required updates to your processing/operations as soon as possible. Let us know if you have any questions.

Updated products included in this release are:

Operational product generation of SNPP/NOAA-20 VIIRS Active Fire (AF) in NDE and SNPP/NOAA-20/NOAA-21 eFire VIIRS in NCCF:

Impact on users: YES

PDA short name changes

List of Scientific Changes: None

Operational product generation  V8TOZ Product Suite in NCCF:

Impact on users: Yes

No PDA short name changed

List of Scientific Changes: None

OPERATIONAL PRODUCT UPDATES: GBBEPx v4 in NCCF:

Changes in this update:

1. Solve the scaling related issues at different grid size

2. Change fill-values in the metadata attribute to make them consistent to GBBEPx v3

Impact on users: Yes. The primary users were informed and the EMC groups confirmed that their applications are okay and ready for the changes.

No PDA short name changed

No PDA file name changed

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 Hanjun Ding (hanjun.ding@noaa.gov), and Vaishali Kapoor (vaishali.kapoor@noaa.gov).

Contact Information: For information on the status of this work, please contact Hanjun Ding (hanjun.ding@noaa.gov), and Vaishali Kapoor (vaishali.kapoor@noaa.gov) or ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov or 301-817-3880

Web Site(s) for applicable information: N/A

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