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STAR / SMCD / OPDB - NOAA Products Validation System (NPROVS) - NPROVS

NPROVS User Interface

EDGE Overview - Graphic display tools for validating collocations

NPROVS routinely (daily) compiles co-located radiosondes and multiple satellite product suite collocations. These are processed into daily, weekly and monthly datasets for routine display and analysis using dedicated graphical evaluation tools. There are 3 tools that are accessible from this page:

ProfileDisplay (PDISP) display and analysis of single satellite-minus-radiosonde vertical profiles.
NPROVS ARChive Summary (NARCS) display and analysis of satellite-minus-radiosonde long term trends.
Orbital Display System (ODS) provides STAR scientists more detailed analysis of the respective product suite orbital datasets (from which collocations are compiled).

PDISP and NARCS user guide information can be found on the NPROVS Documentation page.