{"id":4401,"date":"1998-10-29T08:30:48","date_gmt":"1998-10-29T14:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/?p=4401"},"modified":"2013-08-02T11:09:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T16:09:14","slug":"monthly-news-summary-october-1998","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/articles\/4401","title":{"rendered":"Monthly News Summary &#8211; October 1998"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><em>A Swirl of Hurricanes<\/em><\/h1>\n<h5><em>by Terri Gregory, SSEC Public Information Coordinator<\/em><\/h5>\n<h6><em>A report on current SSEC news and other events. This column covers news events from mid-August through mid- September 1998.<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><em>October 1998<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>Researchers from throughout the United States participated in the Convection And Moisture EXperiment-3 this August and September to study hurricanes. The researchers were based in Florida, primarily at Patrick AFB, and on the Bahamas\u2019 Andros Island. The weather cooperated, giving them Hurricanes Bonnie, Danielle, Earl, and Frances. The field phase of CAMEX-3 ended on September 23, but was extended to take advantage of Hurricane Georges, which may prove to be the most damaging of the season\u2019s storms, if not the most productive for researchers.<\/p>\n<p>SSEC and CIMSS participated with the Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI) on the ground in the Bahamas. As the hurricane season heated up, the media descended on SSEC participants in the field, and also covered research of CIMSS\u2019 Tropical Cyclones team back at UW-Madison. Ron Seely started the local media barrage with a CAMEX-3 summary in his Thursday column on August 13 in the\u00a0<em>Wisconsin State Journal.<\/em>\u00a0He said, \u201cresults from the experiment may increase warning time and help forecasters decrease the size of evacuation areas.\u201d Seely later interviewed Wayne Feltz for an August 27 article, after Wayne hitched a ride on NASA\u2019s DC-8 as it flew through Hurricane Bonnie. Wayne, a researcher on SSEC\u2019s AERI team, took spectacular pictures of the hurricane\u2019s eye wall and other clouds, and gave a personal angle to the experiment\u2019s story.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Capital Times<\/em>\u00a0used the Associated Press version of Ron\u2019s piece on Friday, August 28. The<em>Isthmus,\u00a0<\/em>Madison, Wisconsin\u2019s weekly newspaper, also featured CAMEX-3, Wayne\u2019s hurricane adventure, and Chris Velden\u2019s comments on his own hurricane experience in a piece by David Medaris on September 4. Wisconsin researchers were interviewed for a Discovery Channel program, which aired first on August 28. WOLX Radio interviewed Wayne Feltz, capitalizing on his hurricane flight. The\u00a0<em>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/em>\u00a0included information on SSEC involvement in a longer article on the whole experiment. Bob Knuteson, who led the efforts of the AERI researchers, stated that he hopes for satellite versions of some of the instruments used in CAMEX-3, \u201cto improve prediction of when hurricanes reach land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information, follow the links below.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www1.msfc.nasa.gov\/NEWSROOM\/hotnews.html\">Hurricane Researchers Wrap up Study<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/science.msfc.nasa.gov\/newhome\/headlines\/essd21sep98_1.htm\">The Last Hurricane<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ghrc.msfc.nasa.gov\/camex3\/events.html\">CAMEX-3 News &amp; Events<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SSEC was responsible for its AERI instrument (on the ground in the Bahamas) and for the Scanning-HIS (a new version of the High-resolution Interferometer Sounder, which flew on NASA\u2019s DC-8 in its first mission from September 13 through the experiment\u2019s end). SSEC\u2019s AERI crew also set up a special group of instruments to measure surface and other conditions, including a Global Positioning System to measure water vapor. The data from this unique grouping will be used not only to verify measurements from the AERI but to verify other experiment data.<\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/oct.fred2_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4403\" alt=\"oct.fred2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/oct.fred2_.jpg\" width=\"469\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/oct.fred2_.jpg 469w, https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/oct.fred2_-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/oct.fred2_-449x300.jpg 449w, https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/oct.fred2_-325x217.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>\n<h5><a name=\"fred2\"><\/a>AERI program manager Fred Best adjusts the instrument before sending it into the field.<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/nast\/camex3\/980823\/camex3_980823_quick.html\">NAST-I Quicklook Summary<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/nast\/\">NAST<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SSEC also provided support for NASA\u2019s Langley Research Center\u2019s NAST-I instrument, including Web pages for quicklook data and the Tropical Cyclone group\u2019s wind images. NAST-I stands for NPOESS Aircraft Sounder Testbed-Interferometer, with NPOESS meaning Next Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite System. SSEC\u2019s NAST involvement was featured on the Discovery Channel in a program on CAMEX-3.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/origin.ssec.wisc.edu\/~tomw\/camex\/\">CAMEX Data Viewer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arm1.ssec.wisc.edu\/~waynef\/camexiii\/camexiii.html\">Wisconsin CAMEX-3 Home Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wayne Feltz and Tom Whittaker both prepared Web pages for the official CAMEX Home Page. Tom\u2019s features a nifty new Java applet enabling instant viewing of a combined choice of data, instruments and times.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Mattmiller, University of Wisconsin-Madison News and Public Affairs science writer, drew attention to ongoing hurricane research here in SSEC. Thanks to his release, Madison\u2019s WISC TV3 and WKOW interviewed Chris Velden, who told television viewers about the CIMSS Tropical Cyclone group\u2019s current research on August 27 and 28.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/tropic\/tropic.html\">Tropical Cyclones<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NBC-TV used SSEC\u2019s enhanced images of Hurricane Bonnie, showing it bearing down on the U.S. east coast. USA Today used an enhanced image on the front page of its newspaper on Monday, August 24, and posted it on its Web page on Sunday, August 23. Chris Velden, leader of the CIMSS team, said that increased network use of our imagery may be because the Tropical Prediction Center (formerly National Hurricane Center) mirrors our site when hurrincanes threaten the U.S. because of increased Web traffic. Mirroring TPC\u2019s Web site undoubtedly caused the Tropical Cyclones Web site hits to increase stratospherically, and to account for 85% of CIMSS Web traffic in the week ending August 21. Individual visits to the Tropical Cylcone page during August topped 1.9 million! (The ASCII text file of statistics was 200 MB big.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news1.news.wisc.edu\/coolimages\/\">Why? Files<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Why? Files, published by University News and Public Affairs (UW-Madison), used a color enhanced image of Hurricane Bonnie in its Cool Images page for the week of August 27. The GOES-8 image shows Bonnie dramatically threatening the U.S. southeastern coast, aiming at the Carolinas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/tropic\/real-time\/atlantic\/storm\/storm1.html\">Tropical Prediction Center Forecast Positions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/tropic\/real-time\/westpac\/storm\/storm1.html\">Joint Typhoon Warning Center Forecast Positions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During this hurricane season, a variety of uses are being made of the Tropical Cyclones group\u2019s research. Houston\u2019s Emergency Managers Weather Information Network regularly inserts the colored infrared images into their data stream. Ed Matthews, meteorologist at WFMY-TV 2 (CBS) in Greensboro, North Carolina uses the images in his forecasts. Chris Velden helped direct sonde drops during an aircraft mission into Tropical Storm Bonnie; the measurements in key areas of thin cirrus and low clouds were used to validate wind vector height assignments. Regular, and arguably most important, users are the U.S. Navy\u2019s Joint Typhoon Warning Center and the National Weather Service\u2019s Tropical Prediction Center. Wind measurements are sent in real time, even before the images are posted on the Web. Forecasters find the winds to be particularly useful in a case like that of Hurricane Bonnie, where the steering pattern was not straightforward. Depending on data used, Bonnie could have either bypassed the U.S. coast altogether or come ashore. The CIMSS \u201cwater vapor winds\u201d enabled a correct forecast\u2014the hurricane did hit the coast after stalling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/~daves\/Georges4x.gif\">Hurricane Georges&#8211;Landfall<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch the November 1 issue of In the News for more hurricane coverage.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"outreach\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><em>Outreach<\/em><\/h2>\n<h3><em>Planetary Scientists in Conjunction<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><strong>For More Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/dps98\/dps98exh.htm\">DPS Exhibits &amp; Lectures<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.wisc.edu\/wire\/i092398\/planet.html\">Planetary Scientists<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than 600 scientists from around the world are expected to attend October\u2019s Division of Planetary Science meeting to be held October 11\u201316 at Madison\u2019s Monona Terrace Convention Center. Terry Devitt\u2019s release to the media appears concurrently in online and print versions of the campus newspaper,\u00a0<em>Wisconsin Week,<\/em>\u00a0and has gone out to the world. According to Sanjay Limaye, SSEC planetary scientist who is coordinating the meeting, the event was last held in the Midwest 20 years ago, in St. Louis.<\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/oct1998planets.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4404\" alt=\"oct1998planets\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/oct1998planets.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/oct1998planets.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/oct1998planets-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>\n<h5><a name=\"planets\"><\/a>This artist\u2019s conception shows all nine planets, roughly to scale and in their correct order from the sun. In reality, they never align like this; their orbits vary too much. Can you name all nine? You\u2019ll find the answer at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seds.org\/nineplanets\/nineplanets\/\">Nine Planets<\/a>.<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/dps98\/dps98exh.htm\">DPS Exhibit &amp; Lectures<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.wisc.edu\/wire\/i092398\/planet.html\">Planetary Scientists<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Madison\u2019s\u00a0<em>Capital Times<\/em>\u00a0reporter Gwen Carleton noted September 28, that \u201cas part of NASA\u2019s growing emphasis on sharing its work with the public, the meeting \u2026will include numerous events designed especially for visitors.\u201d An exhibition celebrating decades of solar system exploration will include spacecraft models, a Mars meteorite fragment, and exhibits from NASA, NOAA, the Adler Planetarium, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and others. The exhibit will be open to the public from 4 to 8 p.m. on October 11; from 5 to 8 p.m. October 12, 13 and 15; from 3:30 to 6 p.m. October 14; and from 9 a.m. to noon October 16. A stargazing party will be held in the Monona Terrace rooftop Evjue Garden Thursday evening at 7.<\/p>\n<h3><em>Festive Weather Forecast<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arts.state.wi.us\/festival.htm\">Wisconsin Folklife Festival<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scott Bachmeier, CIMSS researcher, forecast the weather for the Wisconsin Folklife Festival August 20\u201323 held in downtown Madison. Organizer Ann Pryor of the Wisconsin Arts Board said that volunteers appreciated his services. Ann said, \u201che said it would only rain lightly and it did!\u201d Scott correctly forecast Thursday\u2019s gentle two-hour rain that barely disrupted festivities. Volunteers were ready at a half hour\u2019s notice to close up shop if necessary. Scott and the Festival were lucky. Most of the rain Scott forecast either was gentle or fell towards the end of the day or in the very early morning.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"print\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><em>Outreach<\/em><\/h2>\n<h3><em>Precise Sea Surface Temperatures<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><strong>For More Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsmas.miami.edu\/ir\/\">Rosenstiel Workshops<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arm1.ssec.wisc.edu\/~bobk\/miami_ir\/miami_ir.htm\">UW Participates in Miami Workshop<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov\/eos_observ\/5_6_98\/may_jun98.html\">The Earth Observer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Accurate measurements of sea surface temperature (SST) are extremely important in the study of global change. The Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), scheduled to fly on satellites in the Earth Observing System, will measure the SST very accurately. SSEC\u2019s M-AERI (Marine-Atmosphere Emitted Radiance Interferometer) and other radiometers are being used for validation studies being made before satellites launch. Bob Knuteson, scientist on SSEC\u2019s M-AERI team, likens it to a \u201cconsistency check on our calibration procedures.\u201d While prohibitively expensive for widespread use, the M-AERI is very accurate, the most accurate of the radiometers presented at workshops held at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science March 2-6, 1998 in Miami. The Rosenstiel School and UW-Madison lead the effort to use sea surface temperature measurements from ship-based radiometers to validate those expected from satellites.<em>The Earth Observer,<\/em>\u00a0May\/June, reviewed the workshops.<\/p>\n<h3><em>Smoke over Stratus<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/misc\/\">GOES Gallery<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To illustrate an article on May weather, the September\/October issue of\u00a0<em>Weatherwise\u00a0<\/em>features Scott Bachmeier\u2019s picture of smoke over stratus clouds. In the GOES Gallery, Scott said, \u201cSeveral large fires were burning out of control across the Canadian province of Alberta during the first week of May 1998. Thick smoke drifted southward across the U.S.\/Canada border during 05 May and 06 May, and was eventually entrained into the circulation of a cyclone which was migrating southward across North Dakota on 07 May. Air mass trajectories from the NOAA Air Resources Lab suggest that the flow arriving at three points along the smoke filament \u2026 originated over or near Alberta 2\u20133 days earlier.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><em>UCAR Highlights VisAD<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/~billh\/vis.html\">Visualization Project<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/home.ucar.edu\/\">UCAR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>VisAD, a system created by SSEC\u2019s Visualization Project, is featured in Highlights, a report for 1998\/1999 from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. According to the report, Java VisAD \u201cestablishes the foundation for manipulating and viewing many types of numerical data.\u201d SSEC\u2019s Bill Hibbard, project leader, is quoted on system benefits: \u201cPeople all over the Internet can pop up the same interface and work together as if they were on the same workstation.\u201d The University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison is a member of UCAR.<\/p>\n<h3><em>Suomi Scholars Cited<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><em>Wisconsin Week,<\/em>\u00a0August 26, listed the first CIMSS Suomi scholars, including Jason Brunner, who graduated from Monona Grove High School this spring. Jason has worked as a student hourly employee this summer for CIMSS building Web pages and learning McIDAS; he is beginning full-time study as a freshman in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. The other scholars are Ryan Torn, Menominee Falls North; Moire Prescott, Madison Memorial; and Lance Wamsley, Cassville, all in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<h3><em>Radiometer Work Noted<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/~sanjayl\/planets\/galileo\/nfr.htm\">Net Flux Radiometer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The University of Wisconsin Foundation\u2019s annual report for 1997 notes honors given to university achievers. Top among them is Larry Sromovsky\u2019s award from NASA, honoring his leadership of the Galileo Probe\u2019s Net Flux Radiometer team. Larry, a senior scientist at SSEC, received the Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vraptor.jpl.nasa.gov\/voyager\/voyager.html\">Voyager<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has issued its 100th\u00a0<em>Voyager Bulletin,<\/em>\u00a0summarizing mission accomplishments. Professor Verner Suomi, SSEC\u2019s founding director, served on the Voyager Imaging Science Team and SSEC scientists analyzed imagery from all four planetary encounters on SSEC\u2019s Man computer Interactive Data Access System. Through SSEC research, the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison became one of very few universities where Voyager data is studied to learn more about planetary atmospheres. From the launch of Voyager 1 in 1977, the Voyagers investigated the four giant planets\u2014Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune\u2014for twelve years. As they travel to the farthest reaches of our solar system, the Voyagers continue to return data on the solar wind.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"sesqui\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><em>Sesquicentennial Events<\/em><\/h2>\n<h3><em>SSEC Noted in 150 Years\u2019 Celebration<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><strong>For More Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uw150.wisc.edu\/\">150 Years<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The University of Wisconsin-Madison is celebrating its 150th birthday this year, and SSEC is among the participants. At the Proclamation Ceremony on Bascom Hill opening the year\u2019s festivities on September 10, Governor Thompson listed many university notables, including Noble Laureate Howard Temin. To top off his list, he said, \u201cand the Space Science and Engineering Center extends the boundaries of the University [into space].\u201d The governor followed three university leaders.<\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/oct.198gov1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4402\" alt=\"oct.198gov1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/oct.198gov1.jpg\" width=\"493\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/oct.198gov1.jpg 493w, https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/oct.198gov1-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/07\/oct.198gov1-396x300.jpg 396w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>\n<h5><a name=\"gov\"><\/a>Governor Tommy Thompson delivers at the Sesquicentennial Proclamation Ceremony.<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Chancellor David Ward spoke on the university\u2019s tradition of excellence. System President Katharine Lyall noted that 1848, the year the university was founded, was a year of political revolt and economic turmoil around the world and in the United States. The university founders, she said, \u201cdid not wait till things settled down,\u201d but pushed forward with their plans. Regents President San Orr spoke of this century becoming one of biotechnological discoveries, with the university at the cutting edge. SSEC can be pleased to be included in those who keep the university there.<\/p>\n<p>The work of SSEC Founding Director Verner E. Suomi is noted in a three-dimensional Sesquicentennial display. Professor Suomi is shown with an early weather satellite that bears his experiment. Many important university people and events are shown in the colorful traveling exhibit, currently touring the state.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.wisc.edu\/chancellor\/AR9798\/\">Annual Report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chancellor David Ward\u2019s\u00a0<em>1997-98 Annual Report<\/em>\u00a0for the University of Wisconsin-Madison honors the university\u2019s 150th year. Its \u201c150 Ways\u201d details ways that the \u201cUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison has touched the world.\u201d That may seem like many, but the section covers 150 years. SSEC is included twice, although we were established recently, in 1965. Professor Suomi\u2019s satellite work is covered. So are our spaceflight hardware and data collecting activities, with a picture of Neptune from Larry Sromovsky\u2019s Space Telescope observations.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"broadcast\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><em>On the Air<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><strong>For More Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/data\/composites.html\">Global Montage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NBC evening news used SSEC\u2019s global montage to show cloud cover over Afghanistan on the day U.S. bombed suspected terrorist camps. The bombing took place Friday morning, August 24; the story ran that evening.<\/p>\n<p>Watch for Earth\u2019s Fury, a Learning Channel program, which may run this fall. GOES data from SSEC is used to illustrate severe weather.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Aune, CIMSS researcher, appeared on Kathleen Dunn\u2019s Friday afternoon call-in show on Wisconsin Public Radio on August 7, answering questions about \u201cthe crazy weather we\u2019re having.\u201d In early August, some of Wisconsin was blistering under an unrelenting heat wave while some of the state was in danger of floating away in heavy rains.<\/p>\n<p>The Weather Guys, SSEC\u2019s Steve Ackerman and AOS\u2019 Jon Martin, appeared a second time on Larry Meiller\u2019s morning call-in show on Wisconsin Public Radio. Their second success, with even harder questions from Larry\u2019s listeners, occurred on August 26.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"internet\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><em>On the &#8216;Net<\/em><\/h2>\n<h3><em>Interesting Connections<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><strong>For More Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aldea.com\/guides\/ag\/attframes2.html\">Academic Guide to the Internet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The UniGuide Academic Guide to the Internet, formerly the InterNIC Academic Guide to the Internet, lists the CIMSS Web site in its list of Geosciences resources. The Guide lists many Web resources of possible interest to academic researchers in many fields of study.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/solospirit.wustl.edu\/index.html\">Solo Spirit Around the World<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a second time, SSEC provided McIDAS data for Steve Fossett\u2019s attempt to fly around the world in a hot air balloon. Steve ended his flight early in the South Pacific, but you can find flight information at Mission Control, provided by Washington University in St. Louis. Click on maps to see the data SSEC provided.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harborside.com\/cc\/capeblanco\/geo.html\">Cascadia Subduction Zone<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/data\/volcano.html\">Volcano Watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SSEC\u2019s volcano page is included in a Web site offering earthquake, tsunami and volcano information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettinthere.com\/serv04.htm\">Gettin\u2019 There<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catch pictures of the deployment of SSEC\u2019s heat-sensing ocean buoy on Gettin\u2019 There, Web site of Joe Fetro. Joe captains Gettin\u2019 There II, a charter boat mostly used for fishing, but available for occasional high-tech purposes. The pictures show the buoy being deployed off Florida\u2019s Atlantic coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the News &#8211; October 1998<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4401","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\/4401","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=4401"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4510,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401\/revisions\/4510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}