So there’ll be updating the calibration, the instruments are performing well and we expect to be fully validated in a few months. After launch, the instruments have to go through a checkout phase, because going from the Earth to the satellite orbit, there can be changes in them. So you’ve probably heard of the UV index that tells you about the sun exposure. The ozone estimates that were shown in the map, one thing they can be used for is to make estimates of the ultraviolet index. It has three instruments a total ozone mapper, a Nadir ozone profiler and a limb profiler. Larry Flynn, Research Scientist, NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System: So the images are from our newest ozone and mapping and profiler suite, which we call ‘OMPS’. Meteorologist Nick Bannin: NOAA’s 21 Satellite recently released its first images of global ozone concentration recently, what were you able to determine from those new images? Credit: NASA/NOAA/JPSSīelow is a transcript of Bannin and Flynn’s conversation. Credit: NASA/NOAA/JPSSTotal ozone measured by the OMPS NM on February 17, 2023. Total ozone measured by the OMPS NM on February 17, 2023. Meteorologist Nick Bannin spoke with Larry Flynn, a research scientist with NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) about NOAA’s brand new ‘NOAA-21 Satellite’ that’s continuing to build on earth observation of satellites prior, but with even more detail. (KXAN) - As technology improves, our ability to observe the world improves with each new satellite that blasts off to orbit.

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