{"id":4234,"date":"2000-12-24T10:15:28","date_gmt":"2000-12-24T16:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/?p=4234"},"modified":"2013-07-25T14:59:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T19:59:27","slug":"monthly-news-summary-december-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/articles\/4234","title":{"rendered":"Monthly News Summary &#8211; December 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><em>Satellite Imagery Experts in Demand<\/em><\/h1>\n<h5><em>by Terri Gregory, SSEC Public Information Coordinator<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><em>December 2000<\/em><\/h5>\n<p><em>This column includes news received in November.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><em>Weather Research<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>To demonstrate the need for satellite data of high spectral resolution, scientists have simulated data from a proposed Advanced Baseline Sounder (ABS). Tim Schmit (NOAA\u2019s Advanced Satellite Products Team, stationed at SSEC\u2019s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies) and Mat Gunshor (SSEC\/CIMSS) animated high-resolution infrared spectra using data from the National Polar Orbiter Environmental Satellite System Atmospheric Sounder Testbed-Interferometer (NAST-I) being developed at NASA\u2019s Langley Research Center. Image sequences in the infrared were created to complement one generated in the visible portion of the spectrum by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory\u2019s Airborne Visible InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer that flies on NASA\u2019s high-altitude aircraft, the ER-2. The animations include examples from longwave, midwave and shortwave portions of the infrared spectra. The animations also compare selected bands from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) sounder to what an advanced sounder like the ABS would produce.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/HES\/simulation.html#Band_3_7_11_14\">ABS Animations<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elaine Prins (NOAA) and Chris Schmidt (SSEC\/CIMSS) are providing fire images for the entire Western Hemisphere. Using a technique called the Wildfire Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm (Wildfire ABBA), the imagery is provided continuously for the past 24 hours in a 3-year effort funded by NASA and in collaboration with the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in San Diego and the Naval Research Laboratory in Monterey. The study aims to determine the distribution and evolution of biomass burning emissions using satellite retrievals and a real-time transport model. On the Web, users can select from animations showing overviews of fire activity in North and South America during the past 24 hours. The user can also select from 35 regional animations.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/burn\/wfabba.html\">Wildfire ABBA<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The National Zoo in Washington, D.C. plans to display in their Amazon exhibit GOES fire products produced with the Wildfire ABBA. The National Zoo has excellent Internet connections and can link directly to the CIMSS biomass burning Web site to access the wildfire animations in real time. The National Zoo may also feature the wildfire product in a Geographic Information System Web-based tool that is being developed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/natzoo.si.edu\/\">Zoo<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elaine and SSEC\u2019s Rick Kohrs gave the University of Kansas Medical Center ten days of GOES imagery and fire products for the spring of 1999 and 2000 for a study funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. During the spring months Medical Center staff see a spike in regional particulate concentrations that they believe is associated with agricultural burning. The GOES satellite imagery and derived fire products will be used with conventional meteorological data, hospital admissions data, and air quality data to study the relationship between increased burning activity and health.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Choularton, an Early Warning and Contingency Planning Officer in the United Nations World Food Programme, is using a movie provided by the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones group in a presentation. Richard says the movie, depicting Cyclone Eline that rampaged throughout the Indian Ocean, \u201clooks simply wicked on a projector!\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfp.org\/index.htm\">WFP<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/tropic\/\">Tropical Cyclones<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"broadcast\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><em>Broadcast<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><strong>For More Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seagrant.wisc.edu\/Earthwatch\/\">Earthwatch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/nwp\/nwp.html\">Models<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bob Aune (NOAA) spoke with Earthwatch Radio reporter John Karl for a program on weather prediction. Bob manages the daily CIMSS Regional Assimilation System (CRAS) forecasts. The CRAS model is one of very few numerical weather forecasting models that include satellite data. Earthwatch wanted to know \u201cwhy weather forecasts aren\u2019t always accurate.\u201d Bob stressed that accurate and plentiful measurements of the current state of the atmosphere are required before a forecast can be generated. Limitations of the current observing system include spatial and temporal coverage and observation errors. Earthwatch Radio is produced by staff and students at the Sea Grant Institute and UW\u2013Madison\u2019s Institute for Environmental Studies. They cover a wide range of subjects that concern science and the environment and distribute their segments to more than 100 radio stations and other broadcast outlets, primarily in the Great Lakes region.<\/p>\n<p>Weather Guys Steve Ackerman (CIMSS Director) and Jonathan Martin (Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences) appeared on the Larry Meiller call-in show on WHA Radio on Monday, November 27. This, their 20th appearance on the show, featured the usual mix of intelligent questions from the Wisconsin public radio audience.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"net\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><em>On the Net<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><strong>For More Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seaspace.com\/imagery\/index.htm\">SeaScape<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/~gumley\/IMAPP\/IMAPP.html\">IMAPP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SeaScape Corporation, maker of the antenna that brings data into SSEC from the MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA\u2019s Terra satellite, displays MODIS imagery on its Web page. Software developed by SSEC\u2019s Liam Gumley enables ground stations to process the data into usable imagery. The International MODIS\/AIRS Processing Package (IMAPP) is derived from software developed at NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center, and is modified to be compatible with direct broadcast data.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Newsroom\/NewImages\/images.php3?img_id=4383\">Shenandoah<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A high-resolution MODIS image received through SSEC\u2019s antenna and processed with IMAPP is used on NASA\u2019s Earth Observatory Web site. The New Images page features wildfires burning in Virginia\u2019s Shenandoah National Forest. The true-color image was received November 1.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vendeeglobe.org\/\">Le Vend\u00e9e Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(the 2004 site)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/perso.club-internet.fr\/micarpen\/Joe_Seeten\/monde.htm#Antarctique\">Weather<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00c8cole d\u2019Etrun in France is following solo sailor Jo\u00e9 Seeten on his way around the world in Le Vend\u00e9e Globe 2000. Michel Carpentier and his students are using SSEC\u2019s global montage and Antarctic composite of satellite imagery to show what weather accompanies the sailor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.internets.com\/\">Internets<\/a>\u00a0<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>*the image discussed in this piece is no longer available*<\/p>\n<p>Internets, a Web site billing itself as \u201cYour global link to 1000s of Databases,\u201d starts off with SSEC\u2019s global montage. The montage colorfully presents the world\u2019s weather for their site visitors. Check out their numerous weather databases and pass your mouse over the tiny montage on that page. Unfortunately many of their links are outdated or misspelled.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/wxwise\/fitz.html\">E.Fitzgerald<\/a><\/p>\n<p>J.D. Reinke of Lennox, SD was delighted with Steve Ackerman and John Knox\u2019s Web page about the sinking of the ore ship, Edmund Fitzgerald, which sank 20 years ago on Lake Superior in a vicious Great Lakes storm. J.D. said that \u201ca debate at work raised a lot of unanswered questions,\u201d so he searched the Web and found Steve and John\u2019s Web piece. To sum up, he says, \u201cThank You, for putting worthwhile material on a very interesting and informative site.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"print\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><em>In Print<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><strong>For More Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uwamrc.ssec.wisc.edu\/amrc\/iceberg.html\">Icebergs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/od\/lpa\/news\/media\/2000\/ma0019.htm\">Icebergs Closeup<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Australian Geographic<\/em>\u00a0magazine ran a story featuring iceberg B-15 in its October\u2013December 2000 issue. They based their graphic on an image from the Antarctic Meteorological Research Center\u2019s Web site showing a very early stage of B-15\u2019s progress. The AMRC Web site provides satellite imagery of icebergs as it is available. The AMRC provided images of B-15 and the other Ross Sea icebergs to several more publications, including\u00a0<em>Focus,<\/em>\u00a0an Italian magazine, and\u00a0<em>National Geographic World.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The first official on-site photos of the huge pieces that were once the even more mammoth B-15 were taken by\u00a0<em>Antarctic Sun<\/em>\u00a0editor Josh Landis. Josh took the photos from a ski-equipped LC-130 aircraft flown by the New York Air National Guard, who provide logistical support to the U.S. Antarctic Program. Two of those photos as well as information from the AMRC Web site were used in a\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0pictorial on November 28 in \u201cScience Times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/misc\/\">Gallery<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<em>Weatherwise<\/em>\u00a0for November\/December 2000, Lee Grenci\u2019s \u201cHighlight\u201d column uses a GOES Gallery image of thunderstorm activity that spawned the Pine Lake tornado in July. Lee discusses the deceptive practice of combining satellite and radar data in a single image. He dislikes the practice because the two data forms differ in resolutions and area coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Wilt Sanders\u2019 thoughts were included in a\u00a0<em>Wisconsin Week<\/em>\u00a0column of comments (November 29) about UW\u2013Madison\u2019s newly appointed chancellor, John Wiley. Professor Wiley was named chancellor, the university\u2019s highest position, this month. According to Wilt, who chairs the Academic Staff Executive Committee and is an academic staff scientist in the Department of Physics and SSEC, John Wiley, besides being \u201can extremely capable administrator, \u2026 is also a very fair person.\u201d Wilt also stated that he is encouraged by Chancellor-elect Wiley\u2019s \u201cawareness of the need for more professional development opportunities for faculty and staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SSEC provided cloud information to\u00a0<em>National Geographic<\/em>\u00a0magazine for an image comprised of different sorts of satellite data. The colorful image appeared in \u201cNew Eyes on the Ocean\u201d in October. The same image appears on the cover of the current brochure for NASA\u2019s High Performance Computing and Communications Program and is used in a prelaunch promotional poster for Terra. According to the HPCC brochure, the image was produced \u201cto demonstrate the capability to produce such images from a single satellite,\u201d although the data comes from a variety of satellite instruments.<\/p>\n<p>Sanjay Limaye took the solar system to Wadewitz School in Racine, WI on November 14 and was caught in the act.\u00a0<em>Racine Journal Times<\/em>\u00a0reporter Phyllis Sides photographed Sanjay during one of the talks he gave throughout the day as part of UW\u2013Madison\u2019s On-the-Road show. Via the Associated Press, the picture appeared in the\u00a0<em>Wisconsin State Journal<\/em>\u00a0on November 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the News &#8211; December 2000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-summary"],"acf":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4374,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234\/revisions\/4374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}