Effective use of Himawari-8 data - General Comments

General comments about using 10 minute MTSAT-1R (HIWC Experiment) data from Australian and Indonesian Forecasters

Everyone Ihave talked to that has used the data has found it very useful for short lead time forecasting and weather watching (NSW RFC).
It will prepare the Forecasters for the effective future use of high resolution NWP by familiarising them with mesoscale meteorology.
The ability to reconcile the 10 minute satellite data with the 6 minute radar scans in real time (NSW RFC).
The 10 minute rapid scan satellite data was found useful in verifying the high resolution ACCESS-C(VT) model data.
The visible images during the day allow for more accurate briefing to pilots of actual conditions (VIC RFC).
Television reporters are also very interested in the 10 minute imagery (BMKG).

We want the highest spatial resolution and the fastest temporal resolution
We want the smallest lag time in receiving the data.
Bandwidth is always a problem. If you can't ship the whole image, send a high resolution clip.
We prefer that the native resolution is preserved.
In general, the raw products are preferred over derived products, one exception is the fog product, which is still at rather high resolution.
Preference for items that have quantitative properties, rather than "yes/no" (ie. Cloud Top Cooling Rate versus Convection Initiation Likely)
Forecaster Blog entries are very popular with the Forecasters and easier to use for the developers.
Synthetic Forecast GOES-R imagery - useful if the fog product could be simulated into the future
Synthetic Forecast GOES-R imagery - simulated water vapour imagery serves as a proxy for identifying and tracking the evolution of upper level jets without having to rely solely on model data.

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