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Service Description: <div style='text-align:Left;'><p><span style='font-weight:bold;'>Dates of Images:</span></p><p><span style='font-weight:bold;'>Summary:</span></p><p style='margin:0 0 0 0;'><span>Storms that produce heavy rain, damaging winds, hail, and tornadoes often exhibit distinct cloud-top patterns in satellite imagery. Two of these patterns, overshooting tops (OTs) and above-anvil cirrus plumes (AACPs), are frequently observed over intense storms. Using deep learning techniques, researchers at NASA Langley Research Center developed software to automatically detect these severe storm signatures in 500m GOES satellite data collected every 5 minutes.</span></p><p style='margin:0 0 0 0;'><span></span></p><p style='margin:0 0 0 0;'><span>Emergency managers can use this raster data to quickly identify locations where severe storms likely occurred, complementing ground-based reports in regions with limited observations. Severe weather on the ground is more likely when OTs and AACPs are both detected and in areas where detections are clustered or observed repeatedly. Long, nearly straight lines of OT and AACP time-aggregated detections can indicate severe storm tracks.</span></p><p><span style='font-weight:bold;'>Suggested Use:</span></p><p><span><span>Near real-time situational awareness about locations where severe storm impacts may have occurred. Example Uses: Target additional information collection. Prioritize field activities (e.g. assessments, resource allocation).</span></span></p><p><span style='font-weight:bold;'>Satellite/Sensor/Resolution:</span></p><p><span><span>GOES-R satellite channels 13 and 15 at approximately 2 km resolution and 5-10 mins. There were some issues with some of the cases GOES files so there are times in which they were skipped. GFS tropopause temperature was also used. Data are all interpolated to 0.5 km resolution. </span></span></p><p><span style='font-weight:bold;'>Credits:</span></p><p><span><span>If you use this software in your project, please contact our team prior to publication and cite our contribution. When using this software, credit the technical background and validation for this software as described here: Cooney, J. W., Bedka, K. M., Liles, C. A., and Homeyer, C. R. (in review). Automated Detection of Overshooting Tops and Above Anvil Cirrus Plumes Within Geostationary Imagery Using Deep Learning. Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems. Code is available at https://github.com/nasa/svrstormsig.</span></span></p><p><span><span><b>Esri REST Endpoint:</b></span></span></p><p><span><span>See URL to the right.</span></span></p><p><span><span><b>WMS Endpoint:</b></span></span></p><p><a href='https://gis.earthdata.nasa.gov/gis05/services/DISASTERS_EX2603_202205_FLOOD_MN/ex2603_severestorm/MapServer/WMSServer' target='_blank'>https://gis.earthdata.nasa.gov/gis05/services/DISASTERS_EX2603_202205_FLOOD_MN/ex2603_severestorm/MapServer/WMSServer</a></p></div>
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Description: Dates of Images:Summary:Storms that produce heavy rain, damaging winds, hail, and tornadoes often exhibit distinct cloud-top patterns in satellite imagery. Two of these patterns, overshooting tops (OTs) and above-anvil cirrus plumes (AACPs), are frequently observed over intense storms. Using deep learning techniques, researchers at NASA Langley Research Center developed software to automatically detect these severe storm signatures in 500m GOES satellite data collected every 5 minutes.Emergency managers can use this raster data to quickly identify locations where severe storms likely occurred, complementing ground-based reports in regions with limited observations. Severe weather on the ground is more likely when OTs and AACPs are both detected and in areas where detections are clustered or observed repeatedly. Long, nearly straight lines of OT and AACP time-aggregated detections can indicate severe storm tracks.Suggested Use:Near real-time situational awareness about locations where severe storm impacts may have occurred. Example Uses: Target additional information collection. Prioritize field activities (e.g. assessments, resource allocation).Satellite/Sensor/Resolution:GOES-R satellite channels 13 and 15 at approximately 2 km resolution and 5-10 mins. There were some issues with some of the cases GOES files so there are times in which they were skipped. GFS tropopause temperature was also used. Data are all interpolated to 0.5 km resolution. Credits:If you use this software in your project, please contact our team prior to publication and cite our contribution. When using this software, credit the technical background and validation for this software as described here: Cooney, J. W., Bedka, K. M., Liles, C. A., and Homeyer, C. R. (in review). Automated Detection of Overshooting Tops and Above Anvil Cirrus Plumes Within Geostationary Imagery Using Deep Learning. Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems. Code is available at https://github.com/nasa/svrstormsig.Esri REST Endpoint:See URL to the right.WMS Endpoint:https://gis.earthdata.nasa.gov/gis05/services/DISASTERS_EX2603_202205_FLOOD_MN/ex2603_severestorm/MapServer/WMSServer
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Copyright Text: Cooney, J. W., Bedka, K. M., Liles, C. A., and Homeyer, C. R. Code is available at https://github.com/nasa/svrstormsig.
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Comments: Dates of Images:Summary:Storms that produce heavy rain, damaging winds, hail, and tornadoes often exhibit distinct cloud-top patterns in satellite imagery. Two of these patterns, overshooting tops (OTs) and above-anvil cirrus plumes (AACPs), are frequently observed over intense storms. Using deep learning techniques, researchers at NASA Langley Research Center developed software to automatically detect these severe storm signatures in 500m GOES satellite data collected every 5 minutes.Emergency managers can use this raster data to quickly identify locations where severe storms likely occurred, complementing ground-based reports in regions with limited observations. Severe weather on the ground is more likely when OTs and AACPs are both detected and in areas where detections are clustered or observed repeatedly. Long, nearly straight lines of OT and AACP time-aggregated detections can indicate severe storm tracks.Suggested Use:Near real-time situational awareness about locations where severe storm impacts may have occurred. Example Uses: Target additional information collection. Prioritize field activities (e.g. assessments, resource allocation).Satellite/Sensor/Resolution:GOES-R satellite channels 13 and 15 at approximately 2 km resolution and 5-10 mins. There were some issues with some of the cases GOES files so there are times in which they were skipped. GFS tropopause temperature was also used. Data are all interpolated to 0.5 km resolution. Credits:If you use this software in your project, please contact our team prior to publication and cite our contribution. When using this software, credit the technical background and validation for this software as described here: Cooney, J. W., Bedka, K. M., Liles, C. A., and Homeyer, C. R. (in review). Automated Detection of Overshooting Tops and Above Anvil Cirrus Plumes Within Geostationary Imagery Using Deep Learning. Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems. Code is available at https://github.com/nasa/svrstormsig.
Subject: (EXERCISE - DaNCE March 2026) Satellite-borne Severe Weather Detection Product for the Red River Flooding April 2022
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Keywords: Severe Weather,troposphere,NASA,NASA Disasters Program,updraft,storm,GOES
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