This website was developed and is maintained by Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) Sounding Team at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

This website is developed for operational GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Legacy Atmospheric profile (LAP) retrieval product validation, and is currently applied to GOES-16 (east), GOES-18 (west), GOES-19 (central, preliminary, non-operational) and LAP research products (clear only and all sky) are also generated with the GOES-R ABI LAP algorithm in CIMSS GEOstationary Cloud Algorithm Test-bed (GEOCAT) frame. The reference dataset include GPS-IPW NOAA network, conventional RAOB sites,and AMSR2 TPW measurement. The validation focuses on parameters such as TPW, atmospheric stability indices, temperature/water vapor profiles between the retrievals and the reference datasets.

For more information about GOES-16/17/18/19 LAP sounding product maturity, please see NOAASIS/NOAA.

Funding is provided by NOAA GOES-R algorithm working group (AWG) program through the cooperative agreement between NOAA and University of Wisconsin-Madison.

If you have any questions about this website, please contact Zhenglong Li.

Disclaimer: This validation tool is experimental and research based. Users should take their own responsibility for using this.