Space Science and Engineering Center University of Wisconsin-Madison

NOAA Listening Session

Plan to improve forecasting includes CIMSS

NOAA official hosting public listening session in Madison

November 26, 2018

New SSEC director Brad Pierce shares his vision

Terry Kelly, visionary of computerized weather, elected Fellow of the American Meteorological Society

Last year, the American Meteorological Society (AMS) honored Kelly with its highest distinction - Fellow of the AMS - for his leading role in charting a new course for real-time television weather broadcasting.

SSEC welcomes UW alum, Brad Pierce, to director position

Pierce received his Ph.D. and Master of Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in meteorology and is a physical scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) within the Advanced Satellite Products Branch on the UW-Madison campus.

Flash drought

Coming to consensus on a definition

Margaret Mooney recognized for public service and outreach

Margaret Mooney, who directs the Office of Education and Public Outreach at the UW-Madison's Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS), was selected to receive the university's 2018 Robert and Carroll Heideman Award for Excellence in Public Service and Outreach.

Snowfall patterns, cloud types may provide clues to Greenland Ice Sheet

To better understand and anticipate changes in sea level rise, researchers have sought to quantify how much snow falls on the ice sheet, and where, in any given year, since it is the primary source of the ice sheet's mass. This has proven to be a challenging problem.

Shared data, shared discovery with JPSS-1

For decades, the world meteorological satellite community has operated under a policy of freely shared data - no restrictions and unencrypted - available at no cost. It is a philosophy and model of cooperation, first promoted by the United States and adopted by global satellite agencies, that endures regardless of political or national persuasion.

Reflections on a 50-year career, draftsman Tony Wendricks looks back

Tony Wendricks recently retired from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) after a career that spanned a half-century. During his time at SSEC, from draftsman to project coordinator, he crossed paths with almost every instrument and research program and the scientists and engineers who managed them. Recently, he sat down to share some of the highlights.