{"id":4283,"date":"1999-06-24T11:37:22","date_gmt":"1999-06-24T16:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/?p=4283"},"modified":"2013-07-25T15:14:08","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T20:14:08","slug":"monthly-news-summary-june-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/articles\/4283","title":{"rendered":"Monthly News Summary – June 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"

Environmental Policy Journal Features SSEC<\/em><\/h1>\n
by Terri Gregory, SSEC Public Information Specialist<\/em><\/h5>\n
June 1999<\/em><\/h5>\n

FAILSAFE<\/em>\u2122, June 1999, links to SSEC\u2019s global montage in its new masthead.\u00a0FAILSAFE<\/em>\u2122 is the online journal for the Forum for Environmental Law, Science, Engineering and Finance, or F.E.L.S.E.F., an \u201ceducational tool dedicated to the exchange of ideas through the development of a network of leading environmental professionals and policy makers of all backgrounds.\u201d The online journal publishes transcripts of monthly lunch time discussions held by the Forum in downtown Washington, D.C. and other speeches by policy makers on environmental issues. Its June issue ushers in a new HTML version of the journal with the global montage in its masthead, a long article on SSEC (from our Web site) and columns by Dan Quayle, David Malmquist and Rick Murnane of Bermuda\u2019s Risk Prediction Initiative, and President Bill Clinton. The last is the text of a press release on new initiatives to reduce automobile emissions.<\/p>\n

According to editor Michael Frodl, \u201cNot only will the technology behind the SSEC website be more closely explored during our 1999-2000 year-long series on \u2018Environment & Information,\u2019 thereby making it a harbinger of the new intellectual tack F.E.L.S.E.F. will take beginning in the fall, the dynamic nature of the imagery the website provides will be a reminder to all our readers on how dynamic and complex a system or system of systems the Earth and its environment really are. The Special Report on SSEC in this issue begins to throw some light on the magical workings of the SSEC composite digital imagery and introduces the SSEC to our readers.\u201d To subscribe to the journal, e-mail the editor your name, job title, organization, work street address, work phone, work fax and e-mail address at\u00a0mgfrodl@tidalwave.net<\/a>. Editor Michael Frodl promises to keep the information confidential.<\/p>\n

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In the Wings<\/em><\/h2>\n

For More Information<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tropical Cyclones<\/a><\/p>\n

Discovery Channel<\/a><\/p>\n

CIMSS\u2019 Tropical Cyclones group has provided hurricane imagery to a Discovery Channel production company. Termite Art Productions is still preparing the program,\u00a0Hurricane X,<\/em>\u00a0expected to air on July 12.<\/p>\n

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In Print<\/em><\/h2>\n

For More Information<\/strong><\/p>\n

GOES Products<\/a><\/p>\n

Air Apparent<\/em>Review<\/a><\/p>\n

A CIMSS image showing total precipitable moisture over the Great Lakes states is used in a new book on the history of weather maps. Geographer Mark Monmonier also mentions CIMSS and SSEC Web sites as Internet destinations for good examples of \u201chighly specialized maps.\u201d Published this year,\u00a0Air Apparent: How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather,<\/em>\u00a0tracks the development of weather maps from their invention in 1816 through maps and images used on television and on the Web.\u00a0Air Apparent<\/em>\u00a0is published by University of Chicago Press.<\/p>\n

Earth Observer<\/a><\/p>\n

EOS Science Office<\/a><\/p>\n

NASA\u2019s Jim Dodge presented plans for direct broadcast of Earth Observing System data to receiving stations at a meeting in Canberra in December 1998. The first EOS satellite, Terra, to be launched this summer, will broadcast only data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer. The meeting, summarized in the\u00a0Earth Observer,<\/em>January\/February 1999, lists the four U.S. receiving sites as Hawaii, UW-Madison (at SSEC), the University of South Florida, and the Goddard Space Flight Center. SSEC\u2019s CIMSS, along with GSFC, is developing software to analyze the first data broadcast. Full text of the meeting summary, including plans by Australia and other countries to receive and use the data, is available on the Web.<\/p>\n

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Over the Air<\/em><\/h2>\n

For More Information<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jon Martin page<\/a><\/p>\n

Steve Ackerman page<\/a><\/p>\n

WHA Radio hosted the Weather Guys on May 27, but AOS professor Jon Martin answered callers\u2019 questions alone. Steve Ackerman appeared in spirit. Host Jim Packard noted that Steve was giving a chancellor\u2019s presentation, a requirement for UW faculty who receive a distinguished teaching award, as Steve did this spring. Both Jon and Steve use the Internet to dramatize their class material, but as Jon noted, they both also believe that the Internet can \u201cenhance, not replace, classroom teaching.\u201d<\/p>\n

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On the Web<\/em><\/h2>\n

For More Information<\/strong><\/p>\n

Discovery Online<\/a><\/p>\n

John Mecikalski explained the weather processes that caused violent early May tornadoes in Oklahoma and other Great Plains states. In a News Brief for May 5, Discovery Online\u2019s Jennifer Viegas quoted John saying, \u201ca vertical wind sheer favorable to tornadoes developed over Oklahoma.\u201d John also said, \u201cusually there are 25 to 50 big storms each spring [in the Great Plains].\u201d He noted that such large storms hitting highly populated areas does not happen very often. For folks at UW\u2013Madison, this article is posted on the third floor bulletin board in the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences Building. Discovery Online maintains only a two-week archive of News Briefs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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