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Service Change Notice 24-37
National Weather Service Headquarters Silver Spring MD
1150 AM EDT Wed Apr 3 2024

To:  Subscribers:
  -NOAA Weather Wire Service
  -Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
  -NOAAPort
   Other NWS Partners and NWS Employees

From:   William H. Burnett, PhD
   Acting Director, NWS Office of Observations

Subject:   Station Changes in GOES-R ASOS Satellite Cloud Products,
   Effective June 2, 2024

Beginning June 2, 2024, 149 station locations and identifiers will no
longer appear in the GOES-R Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS)
Satellite Cloud Products (ASOS SCPs).

The ASOS SCPs supplement surface weather observations with hourly
cloud-
cover estimates inferred from observations by the GOES-East or
GOES-West
Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI). Additional details on ASOS SCPs
(including
the 149 stations to be removed on June 2, 2024) may be found at
https://vlab.noaa.gov/web/towr-s/asos-scp.

This change will remove obsolete station identifiers and stations
that are
no longer in service. After the change, ASOS SCPs will report cloud
cover
estimates for 3,118 station locations (instead of 3,267).

These changes build on prior efforts to harmonize ASOS SCPs with the
AWIPS
National Datasets Maintenance (NDM) list of Meteorological Aerodrome
Report (METAR) stations. (SCN23-92)

Members of the NOAA community may request changes to the list of
stations
used for ASOS SCPs via the AWIPS NDM repository at
https://vlab.noaa.gov/redmine/projects/awips-ndm/issues.

Henceforth, the station list used for ASOS SCPs will be refreshed
periodically from the AWIPS NDM repository, with no public notice.

Critical weather or other factors may affect the timing of
these changes.

For questions pertaining to these changes, please contact:

    NOAA/NWS Office of Observations
    Silver Spring, MD
    Email: NWS-OBS-Satellites@noaa.gov
  or

    AWIPS Network Control Facility (NCF) Help Desk
    NOAA/NWS Office of Central Processing
    Silver Spring, MD
    Phone: 888-808-8624

For questions regarding the content or distribution of the products
listed
here please contact:

    Joseph Fiore
    NOAA/NESDIS/OSPO Satellite User Services Coordinator
    College Park, Maryland
    Email: joseph.fiore@noaa.gov

National Service Change Notices are online at:

https://www.weather.gov/notification/