{"id":4293,"date":"1999-03-24T11:45:41","date_gmt":"1999-03-24T17:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/?p=4293"},"modified":"2013-07-25T15:15:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T20:15:47","slug":"monthly-news-summary-march-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/articles\/4293","title":{"rendered":"Monthly News Summary &#8211; March 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><em>McIDAS in BAMS<\/em><\/h1>\n<h5><em>by Terri Gregory, SSEC Public Information Specialist<\/em><\/h5>\n<h5><em>March 1999<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society<\/em>\u00a0(February 1999) has published the paper, \u201cMcIDAS: The Man computer Interactive Data Access System: 25 Years of Interactive Processing.\u201d The landmark paper, the first to recount McIDAS technical history, appeared just four months after October 1998, McIDAS\u2019 25th birthday. Matthew Lazzara, lead author, treated McIDAS team members and fellow SSEC authors to donuts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information, follow the links below.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/software\/mcidas.html\">McIDAS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ams.allenpress.com\/amsonline\/?request=index-html\">AMS Journals Online<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>In Print<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>For More Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/media\/suomi.html\">Verner Suomi Retrospective<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/wsj\/\"><em>Wisconsin State Journal<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Wisconsin State Journal<\/em>\u00a0featured University of Wisconsin milestones on January 31. In the milestones list, Professor Verner Suomi\u2019s 1959 weather experiment on the Explorer VII satellite was mentioned. Professor Suomi, SSEC founding director, was shown in a natty polka-dot bow tie and posing with a satellite model. That issue also included a Sesquicentennial pullout section devoted entirely to UW-\u2013Madison\u2019s history. Other SSEC contributions were noted in the February 1999 In the News.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/tropic\/archive\/1998\/storms\/georges\/mgeorg2.gif\">Hurricane Georges montage<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/~daves\/bonnie.gif\">Hurricane Bonnie<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The E.W. Blanch Co. used CIMSS and SSEC hurricane images in a recent Catastrophe Perspectives report. \u201cFrequency, 1998 in Review\u201d printed Gary Wade\u2019s montage of several images along Hurricane Georges\u2019 storm track. The report also used Dave Santek\u2019s three-color composite of Hurricane Bonnie. The report listed all 1998 Atlantic hurricanes with storm tracks and drew attention to the most destructive of the storms. The report noted that the catastrophic losses of 1998 were the highest in 15 years. E.W. Blanch specializes in risk and financial analysis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/aeri\/\">AERI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardinal.wisc.edu\/\"><em>The Digital Cardinal<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SSEC\u2019s Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI) was featured in the\u00a0<em>Daily Cardinal,<\/em>\u00a0on February 17. AERI functions, use, and history were described and manager Fred Best noted that \u201ca major benefit of AERI is that it runs 24 hours a day, producing temperature and moisture profiles every 10 minutes, unlike a weather balloon \u2026 which is usually only sent up twice a day.\u201d Editor Jessica Laszewski hopes to run more science stories in the\u00a0<em>Cardinal,<\/em>\u00a0the oldest of UW-Madison\u2019s two student-run newspapers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.wisc.edu\/wire\/i022499\/whywow.html\">Whys and Wows<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpm.edu\/\">Milwaukee Public Museum<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/burn\/abba.html\">GOES Biomass Burning Monitoring<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whys and Wows, the first of several UW\u2013Madison Sesquicentennial road shows, was featured in\u00a0<em>Wisconsin Week<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Wisconsin Week Wire<\/em>\u00a0for February 24. About two dozen UW\u2013Madison researchers demonstrated their projects at the Milwaukee Public Museum on February 16. Elaine Prins and Joleen Feltz presented the GOES biomass burning monitoring program, using an engaging QuickTime movie and posters with satellite images. An event organizer, Brian Mattmiller of University News and Public Affairs, said that 1,694 school children from around Wisconsin visited the museum on that single day. Elaine said, \u201cI think they were amazed at how many fires there are in South America, and the extent of the smoke.\u201d Ron Seely \u2019s February 11 science column in the\u00a0<em>Wisconsin State Journal<\/em>\u00a0also featured the program. The next Sesquicentennial road show will be held in Menasha on March 9.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northland.edu\/\">Northland College<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ghrc.msfc.nasa.gov\/camex3\/\">CAMEX-3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Highway<\/em>\u00a0(January 1999), a Northland College publication, features the college meteorology program and some of its graduates. Among them is CIMSS researcher Wayne Feltz, who received his undergraduate Northland degree in 1991. Wayne said, \u201cMy classes and internships \u2026 gave me a good understanding of what it would take to make it into the National Weather Service and other meteorological organizations.\u201d The article also mentions Wayne\u2019s flight through the eye of Hurricane Bonnie during 1998\u2019s Convection And Moisture EXperiment. Northland College is in Ashland, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.larc.nasa.gov\/\">Langley Research Center<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/k12unix.larc.nasa.gov\/index2.html\">LaRC Fact Sheet\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nick Nalli, a CIMSS graduate student stationed at NASA\u2019s Langley Research Center, is participating in \u201cOur Changing Earth,\u201d a middle school program organized by LaRC with the American Association for the Advencement of Science, the Franklin Institute and Unisys. As noted in the\u00a0<em>LaRC News Researcher<\/em>\u00a0(January 15), students from Virginia&#8217;s Crittenden Middle School \u201care investigating satellite images of the earth \u2026 to determine what changes have taken place over the past ten to twenty years,\u201d and the role of humans in contributing to change. Nick is one of a team of LaRC researchers working with students.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/tropic\/archive\/1998\/storms\/mitch\/mitch.html\">Tropical Cyclones<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weatherwise.org\/\"><em>Weatherwise<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doyle Rice, managing editor of\u00a0<em>Weatherwise<\/em>\u00a0magazine notes that he will use an infrared image of Hurricane Mitch from the CIMSS Web site in the March\/April issue. Watch for it.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"on air\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><em>On the Air<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.15wmtv.com\/\">WMTV-Madison<\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Mecikalski, CIMSS research meteorologist, appeared on Madison\u2019s WMTV in a piece on a freak thunderstorm that hit Dane County on February 11. Reporter Mike Ogden\u2019s piece ran Friday, February 12, in both 6 and 10 p.m. news programs with John\u2019s explanation beginning the segment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/\">CIMSS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tom Achtor appeared on Jonathan Overby\u2019s Higher Ground radio variety show on Saturday night, February 27. Tom shared the twenty-minute segment on weather with Tim Marshall,\u00a0<em>Storm Track<\/em>\u00a0magazine editor. They spoke about distinguishing features of weather in the midwest including Wisconsin. Tom emphasized the beauty of its variability\u2014watching the seasons change\u2014and encouraged citizens to be concerned about human contributions to climate change. Higher Ground runs every Saturday night on WHA, Wisconsin Public Radio. Tom Achtor manages science programs for SSEC\u2019s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the News &#8211; March 1999<\/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-4293","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\/4293","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=4293"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4391,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4293\/revisions\/4391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}