SOUNDER

GOES Sounder

Satellites

GOES 8 to 15

Status

Operational – Utilised in the period: 1994 to ~ 2016

Mission

Temperature/humidity sounding

Instrument type

19-channel IR radiometer (including one VIS)

Coverage/cycle

Full disk in 8 h, 3000x3000 km2 in 42 min, 1000x1000 km2 in 5 min

Resolution (s.s.p.)

8.0 km

Resources

Mass: … kg - Power: … W - Data rate: 40 kbps

Wavelength

Wave number

Bandwidth

Radiometric accuracy (SNR or NEΔT)

14.71 µm

680 cm-1

13 cm-1

1.24 K @ 290 K

14.37 µm

696 cm-1

13 cm-1

0.79 K @ 290 K

14.06 µm

711 cm-1

13 cm-1

0.68 K @ 290 K

13.64 µm

733 cm-1

16 cm-1

0.55 K @ 290 K

13.37 µm

748 cm-1

16 cm-1

0.49 K @ 290 K

12.66 µm

790 cm-1

30 cm-1

0.23 K @ 290 K

12.02 µm

832 cm-1

50 cm-1

0.14 K @ 290 K

11.03 µm

907 cm-1

50 cm-1

0.10 K @ 290 K

9.71 µm

1030 cm-1

25 cm-1

0.12 K @ 290 K

7.43 µm

1345 cm-1

55 cm-1

0.06 K @ 290 K

7.02 µm

1425 cm-1

80 cm-1

0.06 K @ 290 K

6.51 µm

1535 cm-1

60 cm-1

0.15 K @ 290 K

4.57 µm

2188 cm-1

23 cm-1

0.20 K @ 290 K

4.52 µm

2210 cm-1

23 cm-1

0.17 K @ 290 K

4.45 µm

2248 cm-1

23 cm-1

0.20 K @ 290 K

4.13 µm

2420 cm-1

40 cm-1

0.14 K @ 290 K

3.98 µm

2513 cm-1

40 cm-1

0.22 K @ 290 K

3.74 µm

2671 cm-1

100 cm-1

0.14 K @ 290 K

0.70 µm

N/A

0.05 µm

0.10 % albedo