{"id":4296,"date":"1999-02-24T11:48:17","date_gmt":"1999-02-24T17:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/?p=4296"},"modified":"2013-07-25T15:17:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T20:17:23","slug":"monthly-news-summary-february-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/articles\/4296","title":{"rendered":"Monthly News Summary &#8211; February 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><em>Hurricane Images and Data Used Widely<\/em><\/h1>\n<h5><em>by Terri Gregory, SSEC Public Information Specialist<\/em><\/h5>\n<h5><em>February 1999<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>Gary Wade provided a satellite image for National Geographic\u2019s\u00a0<em>Satellite Atlas of the World,<\/em>\u00a0released before the holidays. Gary\u2019s picture, one of nine colored whole-earth images on the book jacket and in the middle of the bottom row, shows the earth in infrared, as imaged by GOES-8. The nine small satellite images are not available in the deluxe version, which is covered in leather, and has no book jacket.<\/p>\n<p><em>WeatherWise<\/em>\u00a0for February 1999 published Gary Wade\u2019s Hurricane Georges montage with an article on hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>Work of CIMSS\u2019 Tropical Cyclones group is featured on the cover of the American Meteorological Society\u2019s 1999 Hurricane Conference abstract volume. The cover features an AMSU (microwave) image with a vertical cross section of Hurricane Bonnie.<\/p>\n<p>In an article on the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, the National Weather Association\u2019s Newsletter for November 1998 mentions CIMSS\u2019 Tropical Cyclone products with those of the Naval Research Laboratory and the Air Force Weather Agency. The center expects that the innovative products will allow it to \u201clead the weather community of tropical cyclone forecasting into the next millennium.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>National Geographic<\/em>\u00a0magazine, March 1999, features a GOES image of Hurricane Linda to introduce an article on El Ni\u00f1o. SSEC provided the data; Goddard Space Flight Center\u2019s Laboratory for Atmospheres\u2019 Visualization and Analysis Lab enhanced the multispectral image.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s Bureau of Meteorology in Darwin uses products from the Tropical Cyclones page to analyze weather conditions in the northwestern Pacific where typhoons form and in the southern Indian Ocean where there is little data besides satellite.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information, follow the links below.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/\">CIMSS (Georges montage)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/tropic\/tropic.html\">Tropical Cyclones<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/index.html\">National Geographic<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>In Print<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>For More Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/wxwise\/class\/aos100.html\">AOS 100<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An article on the use of computer technology in UW\u2019s curriculum features Steve Ackerman\u2019s introductory weather and climate course. Appearing in a special\u00a0<em>Wisconsin State Journal<\/em>\u00a0section on the University of Wisconsin\u2019s Sesquicentennial (January 31), the article by Phil Brinkman features several professors who use current computer technology in their classes, making them more vibrant and interactive. Steve, who is both a professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and an SSEC scientist, uses three-dimensional graphics (Vis5D) and McIDAS to display and enhance understanding of complex weather patterns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/media\/suomi.html\">Verner E. Suom<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/media\/suomi.html\">i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the same UW sesquicentennial section, Verner E. Suomi, founding director of SSEC, is mentioned as the father of weather satellites.<em>\u00a0Journal<\/em>science reporter Ron Seely named many visionary UW\u2013Madison researchers whose work has enriched the people of the state and the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/~billh\/vis5d.html\">Vis5D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SSEC\u2019s scientific visualization project was chronicled in the Fall 1998 issue of\u00a0<em>National Forum<\/em>\u00a0(The Phi Kappa Phi Journal). The theme of that issue was \u201cAnimation and Computer Graphics.\u201d Bill Hibbard\u2019s article, \u201cInteractive Computer Graphics for Understanding Science\u201d describes the development of Vis5D and VisAD as visualization tools. On the back cover a Vis5D image shows thunderstorms formed over Florida by colliding sea breezes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aas.org\/~dps\/dps.html\">DPS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>D.K. Yeomans, Chair of the Division for Planetary Sciences, thanked all the planners of the October meeting. In the\u00a0<em>AAS Newsletter<\/em>\u00a0(December 1998), he gave credit to Sanjay Limaye, Chair of the Local Organizing Committee, and Larry Sromovksy, Chair of the Program Committee, for the meeting\u2019s success. He noted that \u201cextraordinary efforts were made \u2026 to involve the public in outreach activities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oposite.stsci.edu\/pubinfo\/pr\/1998\/34\/index.html\">Neptune 1998<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In that same\u00a0<em>AAS Newsletter,<\/em>\u00a0Larry Sromovsky\u2019s Neptune research was mentioned as a meeting \u201chot topic.\u201d Observations taken with Hubble Space Telescope and Infrared Telescope Facility recorded 900 mph winds at Neptune\u2019s equator, \u201cwinds that make Earth-based hurricanes seem like little more than breezes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A browse of Madison\u2019s Borders Book Shop\u2019s magazine section netted current science magazines that published the Neptune images observed by Larry Sromovsky and processed by Pat Fry. They appeared most recently in\u00a0<em>Sky News<\/em>\u00a0(Jan.\/Feb. 1999),\u00a0<em>Sky and Telescope<\/em>\u00a0(Feb. 1999) and<em>Astronomy Now<\/em>\u00a0(January 1999).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.wisc.edu\/thisweek\/Research\/PS\/Y98\/nasaeos.html\">News@UW-Madison<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soils.wisc.edu\/nasacan.html\">Model Products<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The NASA-funded Midwest Center for Natural Resource Management was covered in\u00a0<em>Wisconsin Week<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Wisconsin Week Wire<\/em>\u00a0for January 13. Led by George Diak, the consortium of university, government and corporate groups brings \u201cspace-age forecasts to farm, forest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eos.nasa.gov\/eosdis\">EOSDIS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At this year\u2019s AMS Conference, SSEC work appeared in promotional pieces of other organizations. SSEC provided the cloud layer in a colorful poster for NASA\u2019s Earth Observing System\u2019s Data and Information System. Many other organizations\u2014NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center, SeaWIFS, and the European Space Agency\u2014provided images for the complex graphical representation of the earth.<\/p>\n<p>SSEC\u2019s global montage appeared on postcards by ITT Defense and Electronics. The postcard also notes that some data used in the image comes from sensors designed and built by ITT.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Wendricks\u2019 drawings appear in\u00a0<em>Sky and Telescope<\/em>\u00a0magazine, January 1999. Tony made the drawings for Wilt Sanders (SSEC and Space Physics), who provided them for the article.<\/p>\n<p><em>On the Air<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Weather Guys Steve Ackerman (SSEC and AOS) and Jonathan Martin (AOS) appeared on WHA Radio on Larry Meiller\u2019s call-in show on January 5. They fielded questions on weather and climate from listeners all over Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>Also in January, Tom Achtor spoke about long-range weather forecasting with Angela Krenz of the Wisconsin Radio Network. The syndicate sends short news features to stations throughout the state.<\/p>\n<p><em>From the Web<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>For More Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/weather\/resources\/coldscience\/aweath0.htm\">Antarctic Weather<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack Williams, USA Today\u2019s meteorologist, visited Antarctica in January and put together a Web page on his travels. He links to AOS and SSEC\u2019s Antarctic Meteorology Research Center and some of Rob Holmes\u2019 Web pages. Rob is \u201con the ice\u201d repairing automatic weather stations with Professor Chuck Stearns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"ftp:\/\/ftp.seds.org\/pub\/images\/planets\/earth\/earthmap.gif\">Earthmap<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seds.org\/\">SEDS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.estec.esa.int\/spaceflight\/iniss.htm\">Automated Transfer Vehicle<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Origin Nederland B.V. in Nieuwegein will use an image by Rick Kohrs and David Sanderson (formerly of SSEC) in rendezvous and docking simulations of the Automated Transfer Vehicle to the International Space Station. The software company will map the rectangular earth image onto a sphere and use it in a world based on the Virtual Reality Modeling Language. The image was created with data taken by GMS, GOES-7, METEOSAT-3, METEOSAT-4, NOAA-11, and NOAA-12 satellites on August 26, 1993.<\/p>\n<p><em>Outreach<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>For More Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On New Year\u2019s Eve, UW\u2013Madison for the first time participated in Firstar Eve events in Madison. Firstar Eve celebrates the New Year with family-oriented activities and entertainment. On December 31, several UW science groups exhibited in Space Place, operated by the Space Astronomy Laboratory at 1605 S. Park. Among them was Sanjay Limaye, SSEC outreach coordinator, who brought two Lego Red Rovers with a habitat of Europa, designed and built by Kromrey MS students. Firstar door handlers reported 437 visitors to Space Place; Sanjay thought that about half made it to the back room, where he exhibited. At 10 p.m., when Firstar Eve activities were ending, rapt children needed to be ejected from the exhibit, a sure sign of its success.<\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/media\/images\/Angie1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4298\" alt=\"FebAngie\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/1999\/02\/FebAngie.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>\n<h5><a name=\"Angie\"><\/a>Angie Manske poses with the Europa habitat and Red Rovers, operable remotely from the laptop computer.<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpm.edu\/welcome.html\">Milwaukee Public Museum<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beginning in February 1999, \u201cUW\u2013Madison On the Road\u201d will showcase UW\u2013Madison researchers and teachers in a series of events across Wisconsin to celebrate the university\u2019s sesquicentennial. The very first event will be held Tuesday, February 16, in Milwaukee, where a dozen UW\u2013Madison projects will be shown at the Milwaukee Public Museum. Among them is CIMSS\u2019 biomass burning monitoring program. Elaine Prins and Joleen Feltz will present results of the group\u2019s research, using an engaging QuickTime movie and posters with GOES satellite images. These meteorologists will join biotechnologists, primatologists, and other scholars explaining their work to museum visitors. The GOES monitoring exhibit expands upon a display provided to La Habra Children\u2019s Museum in California. Color prints and text were incorporated into an exhibit on the Amazon rainforest in their interactive learning center in the spring of 1998.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonproject.org\/\">The JASON Project<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rosalyn Pertzborn and Sanjay Limaye presented SSEC research in weather satellites, remote sensing, and biomass burning to teachers from Madison elementary and middle schools on January 13 at UW Space Place. The JASON Project, founded by explorer Robert Ballard, supported the presentation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/outreach\/home.htm\">WISE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.netphoria.com\/wort\/\">WORT 89.9 FM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rosalyn also appeared on Science News on WORT 89.9 FM on Thursday, January 21, to talk about science education. Science News covers a variety of scientific issues with a unique perspective every Thursday at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Fox, SSEC\u2019s executive director, has been appointed to the Governor\u2019s Blue Ribbon Panel on the Y2K problem. Bob serves on the Subcommittee on Public Media. The panel hopes to make use of Bob\u2019s and SSEC\u2019s satellite knowledge.<\/p>\n<p><em>Coming up<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>For More Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpr.org\/\">Wisconsin Public Radio<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov\/en\/kids\/\">The Space Place\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rosalyn Pertzborn appears on WHA Radio, February 16, to talk about science education. Kathleen Dunn, afternoon talk show host, would like to know how it\u2019s possible to get kids excited about science topics, like space exploration. Rose may focus on EarthKam and Red Rover actvities and include a Milwaukee teacher in the program which airs at 5 p.m., on Wisconsin Public Radio\u2019s Ideas Network (in and near Madison on FM\u201490.7 from Delafield, 91.3 Highland, or 90.9\u2014and on 960 AM).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uwamrc.ssec.wisc.edu\/\">Antarctic Meteorology Research Center<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CBS News sent crews from morning and evening programs to Antarctica and interviewed Chuck Stearns. Chuck (SSEC and AOS) is a polar pioneer who started both the automatic weather station program and the AMRC. CBS will feature the pieces with Chuck in the week of February 14.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/data\/\">Real-time Data<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>American Scientist<\/em>\u00a0magazine will use some images from SSEC\u2019s Web site in its May\/June issue. The images are composites from SSEC\u2019s real-time data page and will be used to illustrate an article on good things that can be found on the Web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the News &#8211; February 1999<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monthly-summary"],"acf":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296","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=4296"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4392,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296\/revisions\/4392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}