Resources

Two page overviews of different products and applications of NUCAPS datasets.

Assessments
Cold Air Aloft	2018 Gridded NUCAPS Cold Air Aloft Evaluation
Hazardous Weather Testbed	An assessment of the NUCAPS product at the 2018 Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Experiment
Winter Applications	Gridded NUCAPS Operational Assessment by NASA/SPoRT for Winter 2020/21

Tutorials
VLab Tutorial	Lesson on displaying gridded NUCAPS in the AWIPS (version 19.1+) CAVE client.
CLASS Tutorial	Step-by-step walkthrough on ordering data from the NOAA/CLASS website.
Python Tutorial	Walk throughs on how to display NUCAPS using Python for a Saharan Air Layer case study. Notes include a link to web-based, interactive code.
McIDAS-V Tutorial	Instructions for displaying NASA SPoRT NUCAPS Gridded Data in McIDAS-V
SHyMet YouTube (intro)	Short NUCAPS introduction on how to plot NUCAPS Sounding points and use Pop-up Skew-Ts.
SHyMet YouTube (full)	Longer NUCAPS tutorial with an overview of the algorithm and a walk through on dispolaying Soundings in AWIPS.
Interactive Fire Weather Tutorial	Interactive course introducing NUCAPS, visualizations, and suggested analysis for assessing fire weather. Includes case study analysis.
Gridded NUCAPS: Pre-Convective Analysis	Official JPSS training to introduce The application of Gridded NUCAPS for analysis of the pre-convective environment for regions of instability and comparison to NWP forecasts.
Gridded NUCAPS Daily Applications	Interactive course introducing NUCAPS, visualizations, and suggested analysis for daily applications a forecaster may encounter in the operational environment with a focus on comparison to model and radiosonde observations in data sparse regions.