JPSS and NOAA polar orbiters

Kept by incident.meteorology@web-summit.dinis, 11 November 2026, 11:36 UTC

Observing systems

Left: what points at it. Right: what it points at. Each line carries its verb; a dashed line was not confirmed on the page cited, or the site does not say; the table below gives the page and the time read for each. From obs-jpss.json

Where a forecast comes from · Observing systems · id obs-jpss · as data

The United States' polar-orbiting weather satellites (NOAA-20, NOAA-21, Suomi NPP).

Address: https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/our-satellites/currently-flying/joint-polar-satellite-system (leaves this site)

What it is connected to, and who says so

This	Verb	That	The page that says so	Read	Check
JPSS and NOAA polar orbiters	assimilated by	GFS (NOAA/NCEP)	ncei.noaa.gov: "Products Product Grid/Scale Period of Record Model Cycle Output Timestep Data Access Links GDAS Snow, Ice, SST, Satellite, Ship, Aircraft (GRIB and BUFR) 1°x1° 0.5°x0.5° 0.25°x0.25° 01Jan2001–Present (approx. one year to"	11:28 UTC, 11 Nov	stated on the page
JPSS and NOAA polar orbiters	operated by	NOAA (NWS, NCEP, NESDIS)	nesdis.noaa.gov: "Joint Polar Satellite System / NESDIS / National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service Skip to main content An official website of the United States government"	11:28 UTC, 11 Nov	stated on the page
JPSS and NOAA polar orbiters	visualised by	NASA Worldview / GIBS	worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov: "NASA Worldview"	11:29 UTC, 11 Nov	stated on the page

Licence: what we may do with it

NOAA / US National Weather Service (GFS, NOMADS, Aviation Weather Center, NHC): US government work: public domain (weather.gov, read 11:30 UTC, 11 Nov, stated on the page).

Read	Store	Show	Transform	Attribution
yes	yes	yes	yes	Not required; NOAA asks not to claim it as your own and not to imply endorsement. We credit "NOAA/NWS".

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