SSEC and CIMSS Shine in the Big Easy
New Orleans welcomed the 92nd Annual American Meteorological (AMS) Conference on 23 - 27 January 2012 with open arms and mostly cloudy skies. The sun peeked through a few times, but for the most part, there was plenty of weather for the visiting meteorologists.
Crowds eagerly awaited the opening of the Exhibit Hall.
The Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) and the NESDIS/STAR Advanced Satellite Products Branch (ASPB) had 58 presentations and posters at the annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) held in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The 35 oral presentations and 23 posters covered algorithm development, data assimilation, modeling and impacts, visualization, meteorological studies, climate datasets and analyses, instruments, validation, and training.
From ASPB, Tim Schmit spoke on the status of the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) and the work done on simulating it before launch; Michael Pavolonis gave talks on algorithms and applications of fog and volcanic ash retrievals; Andy Heidinger presented the new cloud climate data from Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) data and its ability to improve the long-term Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite (POES) records.
Tim Schmit also served as a co-chair of the Eighth Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems. Michael Pavolonis was interviewed as part of the NOAA 'Big Picture' event.
SSEC maintained an exhibit booth during the meeting demonstrating some of the Center’s latest research, providing close-up looks at the 3-D globe, and allowing visitors to sample the full release version of McIDAS-V’s visualization tools.
John Mace Grunsfeld making the announcement of the Suomi NPP satellite renaming
at the NASA Earth Science Town Hall meeting on 24 January 2012.
Andrew Heidinger, Dave Santek, and Tom Whittaker presenting at the AMS Convention.
It wasn’t all jazz and jambalaya in New Orleans: SSEC scientists and researchers made a strong case for advanced instrumentation in satellite studies, participated in poster sessions, gave informative seminars, and demonstrated new uses of software and hardware.
