Auspicious Beginnings
| GIFTS-IOMI,
with SSEC playing a key role, successfully conducted its Preliminary
Design Review and negotiated Navy and NOAA partnerships that have
brought it to the imminent start of the Implementation Phase with
launch scheduled for 2005! |
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IceCube,
proposed square kilometer neutron observatory, was funded for $15
million startup funds.
Leadership was established
for SSEC’s Antarctic Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Institute
(A3RI)—Astronomy’s
Jay Gallagher as director and Bob Paulos the executive director.
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Original
newsletter item
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MACO,
or Mars Atmospheric Constellation Observatory (JPL collaboration),
proposing a network of microsatellites around Mars to “characterize
the 3-D structure of the Martian atmosphere,” was chosen as a concept
study.
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MODIS
direct broadcast data is served as McIDAS area files to
all McIDAS users.
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MODIS
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NASA approved the
Astro-E2
mission on which the SSEC-built Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator,
the “coldest known object in space,” will cool the XRS instrument.
(More in February In the News)
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The
ADR salt pill after assembly of the can, just prior to salt growth.
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Momentous Occasions
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Automatic
Weather Stations and GPS equipment were placed on B-15,
the monster iceberg SSEC monitored since its birth in March 2000.
In image at right, Jonathan Thom (SSEC) works with Douglas MacAyeal
(University of Chicago) to put a weather station on iceberg B-15.
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Chris
Velden and SSEC (including CIMSS) staff organized AMS 11th Conference
on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography at the Monona Terrace Community
and Convention Center.
- New format allowed
more than a half hour for each overview speaker.
- Leading satellite,
meteorology and oceanography experts gave wide-ranging presentations
to nearly 300 researchers.
- Scott Gudes, acting
head of NOAA, used several slides created by the ASPT in his keynote
address.
- CIMSS and ASPT
scientists presented more than 40 posters.
- Fritz Hasler gave
the Electronic Theater to 2000 students and 200 more adults at
Monona Terrace.
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Conference
release
Electronic
Theater release
Buses
drove through the Monona
Terrace to deliver 2000 students.
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ICDS captured 100-year-old
air for NOAA’s Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory, was
featured in Ripley’s Believe It or Not.
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Click
to view the larger image with caption. |
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Proteus aircraft visited
in July to fetch the NASA/Langley NAST-I instrument tested here
before the CLAMS field campaign.
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Dan
DeSlover and instruments
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| SDI
(SSEC Desktop Ingestor) card number 100 was built in September,
in the fourth year making this satellite ingest system. |
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| SSEC
was first to ingest the first GOES-12 image and display it
on the Web. |
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| WIYN
Observatory celebrates fifth year of operations in October,
with SSEC designed and built control system. |
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Technological
Advances
| 6
year comparison of the GOES-8
ABBA fire product with Brazil’s product that uses NOAA AVHRR
data highlighted the need for a combined sensor fire detection method. |
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| 18 AERIs
now operate around the world for research and forecasting. |
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AERI Instrument |
| Ability
to ingest, serve and display NOAAPORT’s NEXRAD data was added to McIDAS. |
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SSEC's
NOAAPort System |
| Added
lots of enhancements to VISITView—overlays,
audio/annotation recording, etc. |
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VISITView
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AERI
continued to show its usefulness in severe weather forecasting.
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| Agricultural
model, PALMS, was developed to track and forecast soil moisture. |
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Grain
moisture modeled in a field. |
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AMANDA
detected a neutrino, proving that the technology works. (Nature,
22 March).
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| Arctic
High Spectral Resolution Lidar is produced for Alaska’s North
Slope. |
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Lidar
optical engineer Igor Razenkov with new lidar.
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AVHRR
Polar Pathfinder cloud detection algorithm was revised and
delivered to U.Colorado.
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Surface
temperatures |
| Data
Center added NEXRAD radar data and data from China’s polar-orbiting
and geostationary satellites (FY2B and FY1C), the US polar-orbiting
satellite NOAA-16, and GOES-12. |
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For VisAD
- added Python interfaces
- created two tutorials, Python and Data Model
- added the ability to read text files
- added HersheyFonts, giving the ability to overlay drawing on
images in “2D” mode and faster font rendering, and all the WMO
weather symbols
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McIDAS-Lite
[sic] was produced for browsing satellite data, both local
and remote.
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| McIDAS
was upgraded to version 7.8 in May. |
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PIFTS
measurements showed good agreement with those from AERI.
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| Scanning
HIS, our high spectral resolution aircraft instrument, is
playing a key role in the validation of satellite data from NASA Terra
and GOES; a busy future is expected in keeping up with forthcoming
U.S. weather and earth science satellites. |
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| The
Scanning-HIS helped confirm that methane levels were back
to normal over Hutchinson, KS, demonstrating a new capability.
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Partial
methane map
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Viewing the Earth
| GOES-9
was removed from storage. Only SSEC received data, made images. |
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Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel used SSEC’s vast data archives to illustrate
historical events with images from space. |
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| MODIS
images showed the ash plume of the Cleveland Volcano on Chuginadak
Island in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, utilizing the infrared to more
clearly delineate smoke from cloud. |
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Cleveland
Volcano, via MODIS |
| New
Web page serves images from SSEC’s Terra MODIS direct broadcast
antenna. |
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MODIS Great Lakes image, 9 January 2002
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| New
geostationary satellite browser provides imagery for five
geostationary satellites with animation and zoom capability. |
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We provided special
global imagery and other products to Japan’s new National
Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation for display in
real time on their 6 meter globe suspended from the ceiling and
covered with millions of LEDs.
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Research Progress
| 12-year
climatology
shows that cloud cover has fallen slightly in the cold spots of Asia
and North America in the last four years. While this change in cloud
cover cast doubt on the theory that aircraft contrails increase cloud
cover, the decrease appears to have been accompanied by warmer temperatures
in the last four winters. |
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January
1990-1995
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| 2001
fire season statistics showed increased, but below average,
burning in South America. |
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| ABBA
fire products are being used to study land-use and land-cover
change and carbon dynamics in Western Amazonia. |
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| AFWEX
observations of upper tropospheric water vapor show an unexpected
level of agreement, but significant effort will be required to reduce
uncertainty to the goal of better than 10% of the uppermost 0.1 mm. |
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| AMSU
data better resolved the thermal signature of Hurricane Floyd’s core
than did a numerical model analysis from the National Centers for
Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Eta model. |
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Arctic
and Antarctic satellite-derived winds were produced for the
European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF), NASA’s
Data Assimilation Office, and the U.S. Navy.
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ATOVS
data from the NOAA-16 polar orbiting satellite were simultaneously
processed by software produced by CIMSS and by Meteo France, to
validate both systems.
Image at right
shows ATOVS data processed by CIMSS IAPP software. Humidity fields
for morning orbits on November 30, 2001. Click for a comparison—The
IAPP (CIMSS) field appears on the left and ICI (Meteo France) field
is on the right.
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| Automatic
Weather Station measurements are used in real-time at SSEC. |
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| Beta
version of radiative transfer model Streamer
was released, for satellite radiance simulations and calculation of
radiative fluxes and heating rates. |
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| Both
ABBA and Wildfire ABBA observations were used to intercompare with
MOPITT carbon monoxide measurements. |
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CIMSS
and NOAA’s ASPT participated in GOES-12 prelaunch activities and performed
the GOES-12 science test.
- They investigated
the quality of GOES-12 data,
- produced products
from the GOES-12 data stream,
- compared products
to those from other satellites,
- investigated the
impact of new bands and lost ones on both current and new Imager
products,
- posted hourly displays
of all 19 Sounder channels,
- produced many other
important test results.
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Science
Test Report
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CIMSS
researchers found that combining radiometric and geometric
information yields improved tropospheric temperature and moisture
profiles when compared to those inferred from either system alone.
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Cloud structure
was deduced for Jupiter, consistent with observations by Galileo
probe and HST methane-band.
Click on the small
image for a pair of images. The left image of the pair was taken
in a wavelength allowing only the top of the atmosphere to be seen.
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Jupiter in a wavelength enabling clouds deep in the atmosphere to
be seen |
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Cloud
Top Pressure product was found to improve forecasts when
used in the Eta model.
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Cloudtop
pressure product |
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Computer code,
originally written to derive wind measurements from geostationary
weather satellite data, has been modified for MODIS data mapped
to a polar stereographic projection.
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Wind
measurements from MODIS data over the Arctic
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| Correlations
between aerosol optical thickness measurements derived from the Aeronet
sun photometer network and those derived from GOES-8 varied from 0.82
to 0.93 for values below 1.5, in South America. (More in February
In the News) |
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Coupled with a 65
kt ship observation, the Tropical Cyclones group’s AMSU
data provided the catalyst for NHC to begin issuing hurricane
advisories on newly formed Hurricane Noel.
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| Cumulative
fire composite generation is increased from every 3 hours to every
half hour, using WF
ABBA. |
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| Experimental
retrievals including the effects of surface emissivity were compared
to retrievals using the routine GOES algorithm, resulting in slight
improvement and showing that it is important to account for surface
attributes. (More in next month’s In the News) |
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Longwave measurements. Click for comparison.
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| For the
post-launch validation of AIRS advanced temperature and water vapor
sounding capabilities, SSEC is now prepared to derive a “best estimate”
atmospheric state over the ARM
site in Oklahoma. |
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Full
disk image of cloud-top pressure was produced from new GOES-12
Imager data.
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| Global
precipitable water product will give continuous measurements over
the series of NASA earth science satellites, starting with the MODIS
instrument on Terra. (More in February In the News.)
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Total
precipitable water derived from MODIS data.
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| GOES
3.9 micron channel was used to derive nighttime low-level
wind fields, improved coverage by about 50% with similar accuracy.
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Winds
at night around Tropical Storm Florence |
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| GOES
WINDs EXperiment produced wind measurements from GOES-10 "rapid-scan"
imagery. (Note: the link is to the current, second GWINDEX.) |
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Upper
Tropospheric wind measurements, 2002 GWINDEX.
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| HSP
data was used to deduce existence of a black hole. |
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1992
HSP data produces black hole evidence.
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| ICDS
performed strongly in Critical Design Review of hot water drill that
needs to drill down about a mile. |
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Intercalibration
code was written and tested for NOAA’s High Resolution Infrared
Radiation Sounder (HIRS) for potential operational use.
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| MODIS
is shown to be better than GOES at viewing fog and stratus.
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| New
circulation features on Neptune discovered and clouds characterized. |
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Click for more Neptune images. |
NHC
acknowledged experimental wind measurements made during Tropical
Storm Barry as an impressive aid for wind analyses and advisories.
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Winds derived from TS Barry, 4 August. |
| NOAA
now routinely uses the CIMSS algorithm that retrieves sea
surface temperature information from weather satellite data.
Information is generated hourly over an area from 60º N to 45º
S and from 180º to 30º, or most of Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans. |
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On short notice,
the GOES-8/10 Imager Clear-Sky (average) brightness temperature
experimental product was developed for global numerical modelers
(NCEP and ECMWF).
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Brightness temperature information from cloud data
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| Recharacterized
shortwave optical properties of various ice particle “habits”
for use in a radiative transfer model. |
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Summary
graphics outlined the impact of the VIIRS high resolution
11 micron channel on sub-pixel fire characterization.
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Newsletter
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| Tropical
Cyclones group makes quality controlled global wind data sets
from all geostationary satellites available every 3 hours via ADDE.
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Example of latest wind image
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Used
GOES brightness temperature (surface radiation) measurements
in novel data comparisons.
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| Used
GOES Sounder data to identify snow during the day.
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Comparison for snow |
| Using
a modified technique for identifying low clouds from GOES Sounder
data, a scheme for correctly identifying low level maritime clouds
along the eastern Pacific was developed; the technique was incorporated
into operational NESDIS processing. |
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Version
3.2 of the Cloud and Surface Parameter Retrieval (CASPR)
system is released to analyze polar AVHRR data.
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| VisAD
is being used to produce 3-dimensional visualizations of satellite
winds, in both static displays and animations. |
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Hurricane Keith in 3-D |
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We’re simulating data
from and giving input for 12 GOES instruments (current or planned)
including
- ABS
simulations show that retrievals would be significantly better
than GOES-8’s.
- Both
ABS and GIFTS will meet National Weather Service requirements.
- With
NASA, CIMSS and NOAA/ASPT are using MODIS data to simulate
imagery from the future Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) and from
the GOES-I/M imager to show improved capabilities in detecting
combined ice, snow and clouds and other phenomena.
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Example of GIFTS data cube.
Click for more. |
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Wildfire
ABBA imagery is produced routinely for entire western hemisphere.
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| WF
ABBA was used to track volcano eruptions, the Viejas wildfire
near San Diego, Washington State wildfires. |
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Wisconsin
provided more than 90% of figures in the GOES-11 Post-Launch Test
(NOAA Technical) report. Sounder data and products were shown to
be improved over those from GOES-8.
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| With
WF ABBA, half-hourly fire-mask GOES images are served in near
real time to NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory and the Storm
Prediction Center via anonymous FTP, in McIDAS format for fire-weather
emergency management. |
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With more rigorous
surface emissivity measurements, Eta-model forecasts improved
when GOES sounder data are used.
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Infrastructure
|
Bill Bellon was named
first full-time (almost) SSEC Webmaster; he and committee redesigned
top Web pages, public in January.
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| New high-speed
network for SSEC’s more than 400 computers—rewired, rerouted, redone,
all by SSEC staff. |
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| TC made
leadership transition smoothly, added “new” employee (graduated student
hourly). |
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| TC resolved
4,153 help requests (tracked) and at least as many walk-ins and phone
calls (not tracked). |
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Sharing Information
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195 SSEC publications-books,
reports, journal articles, conference papers, chapters in books. ...
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CIMSS
Publications
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Almost 60 GB of GOES
data provided to .edu domains, almost 5000 images.
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Data
Center
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Background
given
- on icebergs to the
New York Times, the National Geographic, and the Discovery Channel.
- on weather forecasting
constraints, for the Capital Times and a Rockford, Illinois paper
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SSEC
News Page
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| CIMSS
newsmagazine revived, revamped, and republished—Vol.2 out in December! |
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CIMSS
News Magazine
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Data
Center’s paying customers included
- daily real-time
products for Express Technologies, Tokyo’s Science museum (remove
if elsewhere), Japan’s Digital Weather Corp
- real-time satellite
data for Lockheed Martin and World Effects, for a 6m globe
- a year of all
GOES sounder data for Eumetsat research
- data for The History
Channel’s This Week in History, Philipps-University of
Marburg Germany, Sony
- special fire products
for the University of Kansas
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Data
Center
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Hurricane images and
data provided for Jim Carrier’s book, The Ship and the Storm,
and for a UCAR brochure on natural hazards.
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Tropical
Cyclones
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| International
Journal of Solar System Studies (Feb.2001) published three papers
on the imaging of Neptune and its moon Triton, culmination of five
years of observing Neptune atmospheric conditions with ground-based
telescopes and the Hubble Space Telescope. |
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| NOAA
scientist Susan Solomon used data from the Automatic Weather Stations
in her book, The Coldest March, to compare current and past
Antarctic weather conditions. |
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Coldest
March
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Paper published by
National Weather Association introduced the GOES-12 imager.
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GOES
Science Test
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Practical IDL Programming,
by SSEC programmer and MODIS imaging team member Liam Gumley, published
by Morgan Kaufmann’s High Performance Computing division.
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More
about the book
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| Satellite
retrievals of cloud properties were provided to Canada’s Meteorological
Service to compare with aircraft measurements during Canada’s Alliance
Icing Research Study (1999-2000). |
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| Several
SSEC MODIS broadcast images on NASA’s Earth Observatory Web site |
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Earth
Observatory Images
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| VISITview
was presented at the NOAA Tech 2002 conference. |
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VISITview
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Weather Flight Commander
at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois used experimental GOES Sounder
Cloud Top Pressure product to determine if a tanker mission will
have clouds at flight level in the aerial refueling track.
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GOES
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We
worked with the National Zoo’s Amazon division to integrate GOES Biomass
Burning Monitoring information into an online Geographic Information
System.
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ABBA
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Innovative Collaborations
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Annual McIDAS Users’
Group Meeting followed AMS satellite meteorology conference for
visitors flying in from afar.
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MUG
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| CIRRUS
Phase A study brought numerous UW–Madison departments and other collaborators
together in effort designed to include students in all phases of research
project. |
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Collaboration
with Quebec’s Environment Canada Meteorological Services showed the
valuable application of geostationary satellite data in initial detection
and ongoing monitoring of wildfires in remote locations.
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ABBA
Newsletter
Item
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| Harvard
University used real-time satellite data to support a field experiment
in India. |
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| In
the DOE ARM Water Vapor IOPs, our 5-year effort to reduce the large
uncertainty in lower tropospheric water vapor measurements to <
2% showed promise for soon achieving the goal. |
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WV
IOP
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| MODIS
image of southeastern U.S. on SeaSpace Corporation’s 2001 calendar
was made with SeaSpace TeraScan software integrated with SSEC’s IMAPP
software. |
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IMAPP
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Scanning-HIS and AERI
accompanied the NAST-I to support the larger CLAMS objectives. We
also tested the NAST-I with our instruments here at SSEC.
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CLAMS
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| UC-Davis’
Department of Radiology used stereo GOES-8 and GOES-10 images (colorized
globes) to train radiologists viewing the brain on real-world stereo
images. |
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Vis5D
development continued outside SSEC,
- at NOAA Forecast
Systems Lab’s D3D
- in MIT and NCAR
project
- at Argonne’s Cave5D
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Vis5D
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| We
helped Central America acquire weather satellite data in Costa Rica. |
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| We
participated in the Texas MODIS Experiment 2001, March 14 to April
4 to improve MODIS calibration. |
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In the Limelight
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AMANDA was featured
in New York Times.
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News
Item
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| B-15,
IceCube and Amanda were featured in National Geographic (December
2001) |
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| Both
AWS program and IceCube featured in Wisconsin Week articles.
(Dec.2001) |
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Wisc.Wk.
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| Chris
“Professor” Velden on UW-Madison half time video. |
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| Earth
Observatory Web site featured Verner Suomi in the series “On the Shoulders
of Giants.” |
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Earth
Obs.
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| Holiday
lights once more adorned SSEC GOES antennas. |
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Antennas,
courtesy U.Communications
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| MODIS
imagery showed flooding
on CNN. |
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| Neptune
image was used in National Geographic’s book, Exploring the Solar
System. |
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| OSSE
poster featured Earth in many guises. |
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| SGI
Web site, July 10, used several Vis5D images in a lead story on weather
and climate research. |
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| The
Schwerdtfeger Library was featured in Libraries, a magazine
published by Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries, for the library's
collection of lantern slides of Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley’s original
photomicrographs. |
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| Weather
prediction was featured on Earthwatch Radio, January 25. |
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Education and
Outreach
| Amazing
new applets for Why Files, especially the really cool “how far away
is the thunderstorm” applet. |
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Thunderstorm
All
the Applets
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| CIRRUS
appeared on Why Files Web site with an interactive piece on snow and
clouds. |
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Why
Files
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| For
the sixth year, SSEC hosted student apprentices brought to UW–Madison
through NASA’s Summer High School Apprenticeship Research Program,
on Mars-related projects and on GOES applications. |
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Newsletter
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For
UW–Madison’s annual road show, Sanjay Limaye spoke at Chicago’s Adler
Planetarium and worked with local students.
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Wis.Wk.
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OSSE
participated for the second year in UW–Madison’s PEOPLE summer program.
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Teacher
and students
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| Sanjay
appeared with Jim Lattis (SAL) on WORT-FM science show. |
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OSSE
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| Six
Wisconsin high school seniors were named fourth set of Suomi scholars.
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News
item
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| Steve
Ackerman spoke about CIRRUS at a university roundtable luncheon. |
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Abstract
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| The
tenth Workshop on Atmospheric, Earth, and Space Science in midsummer
was held for five teachers and fourteen students. |
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Summer
Workshop
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Through
the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience, a student built, tested
and calibrated the GIFTS/GLOBE Sun Photometer for Water Vapor Special
Measurements.
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News
Item
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Trained
12 people in Australia to use VISITview, gave a 3.5 day workshop and
training session to 35+ people in Australia.
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Weather
Guys Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin (AOS) made 12 monthly appearances
on Wisconsin Public Radio's Ideas Network.
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WPR
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Service and Honors
| Data
Center produced special satellite images for retiring Dean Virginia
Hinshaw, Bob Herblseb, Bob Oehlkers. |
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| Donald
Johnson, SSEC scientist and AOS emeritus professor, was named special
project scientist at National Centers for Environmental Prediction;
isentropic modeling techniques to be shared. |
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| Elaine
Prins, NOAA Employee of the Month for May, was nominated by coworkers
for team leadership and fire detection work. |
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| GOES
sounder products were used to correct astronomical measurements taken
at the Pine Bluff Observatory-their detector response increased with
precipitable water vapor measurements. |
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| In
first ten months of his tenure as field editor, Dave Martin and his
staff processed ten manuscripts for the Journal of Applied Meteorology. |
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| In
the 9-11 aftermath, we provided satellite images on the Web and later
explanations of the limits to satellite tracking capabilities. |
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| NOAA’s
Atmospheric Research and applications Division named Scott Bachmeier
and Tom Whittaker Trainers of the Year for VISITView. |
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| Paul
Menzel was awarded NOAA Bronze Medal for national and international
scientific leadership in space-based remote sensing. |
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| Through
OSSE WINNERSS project, Rose Pertzborn serves at NASA HQ. |
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WINNERSS
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| Tom
Whittaker joined the Thematic Realtime Earth Data Distributed Servers
(THREDDS) team at Unidata/UCAR. |
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THREDDS
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| Wilt
Sanders served as Academic Staff Executive Committee chair. |
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Acronyms List
A3RI—Antarctic Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Institute
ABBA—Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm
ADDE—Abstract Data Distribution Environment
AERI—Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer
AFWEX—ARM FIRE Water Vapor Experiment
AIRS—Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder
AMANDA—Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array
AMRC—Antarctic Meteorological Research Center
AMS—American Meteorological Society
AMSU—Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
ARM—Atmospheric Radiation Measurement
AOS—(Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
ASPT—Advanced Satellite Products Team (NOAA, stationed at SSEC)
ATOVS—Advanced TIROS-N Operational Vertical Sounder
AVHRR -Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
CIMSS—Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
CIRRUS—Cloud InfraRed Radiometer for University-class Earth System Science
CLAMS—Chesapeake Lighthouse and Aircraft Measurements for Satellites
DOD—Department Of Defense
DOE—Department of Energy
ECMWF—European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts
FIRE—First ISCCP Regional Field Experiment
GIFTS—Geostationary Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer
GLOBE -Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment
GOES—Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
GPS—Global Positioning System
HIS—High-resolution Interferometer Sounder
HSP—High Speed Photometer
HST—Hubble Space Telescope
IAPP—International ATOVS Processing Package
ICDS—Ice Coring and Drilling Services
ICI—Inversion Coupled with Imager (Meteo France)
IDL—Interactive Data Language
IMAPP—International MODIS/AIRS Processing Package
INPE—Instituto de Pesquisas Espaciais (Brazil)
IOMI—Indian Ocean METOC Imager
ISCCP—International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
kt—knots
LED—Light Emitting Diode
Lidar—LIght Detection And Ranging
McIDAS—Man computer Interactive Data Access System
MIT—Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MODIS—MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
MOPITT—Measurements of Pollution In The Troposphere
MUG—McIDAS Users’ Group
NASA—National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NAST-I—NPOES Atmospheric Sounder Testbed-Interferometer
NCAR—National Center for Atmospheric Research
NCEP—National Centers for Environmental Prediction
NESDIS—National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service
NEXRAD—NEXt generation RADar
NHC—National Hurricane Center
NOAA—National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NPOES—National Polar Orbiter Environmental Satellite
OSSE—Office of Space Science Education
PALMS—Precision Agricultural Landscape Modeling System
PEOPLE—Pre-college Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence
SGI—Silicon Graphics Incorporated
SSEC—Space Science and Engineering Center
TC—Technical Computing
TIROS—Television InfraRed Observation Satellite
UnESS—University class Earth System Science
VIIRS—Visible Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite
Vis5D—VISualization of Five-Dimensional data
VisAD—VISualization-Algorithm Development
VISIT—Virtual Institute for Satellite Integration and Training
WV IOP—Water Vapor Intensive Observing Period
WF-ABBA—WildFire ABBA
WINNERSS—Wisconsin Idea National Network-Education and Research in Space
Sciences
WIYN—Wisconsin-Indiana-Yale-NOAO consortium
WMO—World Meteorological Organization
XRS—X-Ray Spectrometer
11 January 2001 by SSEC's Public Information Officer.
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