Director's Note

Tom Achtor

Our new Assistant Director for Administration, Jenny Hackel and I are teaming up on this month’s director’s note.  We want to discuss some basic information about SSEC, and its policies and procedures so they are more easily accessible to you...more

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Department News

Human Resources

The Open Enrollment period ended on November 2, 2012 with many employees at SSEC making changes to the different insurance plans. By far the most popular change...more

Comings and Goings

Birthdays

 

	Suomi's Vision Continues to Illuminate NASA and NOAA released unprecedented new images – cloud-free images of planet Earth, at night, and yet alive with light...more
	AMRC Celebrates 20 Years The development of Antarctic satellite composite imagery in October 1992 led to the founding of the Antarctic Meteorological Research Center (AMRC) within SSEC...more
	The Making of Real-time Volcanic Cloud Alerts In April of 2010 millions of airline passengers across Europe were bumped from their flights because of the Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruption in Iceland. The ash cloud that spewed from the volcano reached jet cruising altitudes within busy North Atlantic and European air routes...more
	CSPP CrIS, AIRS and IASI Atmospheric Retrieval Software Package Release We are pleased to announce the release of the Community Satellite Processing Package (CSPP) University of Wisconsin (UW) hyperspectral retrieval software package for direct broadcast applications...more
	National Weather Association Meets in Madison The National Weather Association congregated for their 37th Annual Meeting, on 07-11 October 2012. The theme of this year’s gathering was: “Synthesizing Weather Information for Society: From Observations to Actions Across Our Communities.”...more