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The HWT provides a forum for collaboration to improve products ahead of widespread operational deployment. We found that the utilization of the NOAA-Unique Combined Atmospheric Processing System (NUCAPS) soundings was improved when the product developer and forecaster directly communicated to overcome misunderstandings and to refine user requirements. Here we share our adaptive strategy for (1) assessing when and where NUCAPS soundings improved operational forecasts by using real, convective case studies and (2) working to increase NUCAPS utilization by improving existing products through direct, face-to-face interaction. Our goal is to discuss the lessons we learned and to share both our successes and challenges working with the weather forecasting community in designing, refining, and promoting novel products. We foresee that our experience in the NUCAPS product development life cycle may be relevant to other communities who can then build on these strategies to transition their products from research to operations (and operations back to research) within the satellite meteorological community.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs12050886","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,3,10]],"date-time":"2020-03-10T11:59:36Z","timestamp":1583841576000},"page":"886","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":23,"title":["Adapting Satellite Soundings for Operational Forecasting within the Hazardous Weather Testbed"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3575-8597","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rebekah B.","family":"Esmaili","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Science and Technology Corporation, Columbia, MD 21046, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1952-2776","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nadia","family":"Smith","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Science and Technology Corporation, Columbia, MD 21046, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Emily B.","family":"Berndt","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL 35808, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"John F.","family":"Dostalek","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Brian H.","family":"Kahn","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kristopher","family":"White","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL 35808, USA"},{"name":"National Weather Service, Huntsville, AL 35805, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3234-023X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Christopher D.","family":"Barnet","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Science and Technology Corporation, Columbia, MD 21046, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"William","family":"Sjoberg","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Global Science &amp; Technology, Greenbelt, MD 20770, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mitchell","family":"Goldberg","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"NOAA Joint Polar Satellite System Program, Lanham, MD 20706, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,3,10]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1187","DOI":"10.1175\/BAMS-D-12-00080.1","article-title":"The Emergence of Weather-Related Test Beds Linking Research and Forecasting Operations","volume":"94","author":"Ralph","year":"2013","journal-title":"Bull. 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