\u00a0<\/i><\/b>Auspicious Beginnings<\/strong><\/p>\n IceCube,<\/b>\u00a0proposed square kilometer neutron observatory, was funded for $15 million startup funds. \u00a0Leadership was established for SSEC\u2019s Antarctic Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Institute (A<\/b>3<\/sup><\/b>RI<\/b>)\u2014Astronomy\u2019s Jay Gallagher as director and Bob Paulos the executive director.<\/p>\n MACO,<\/a><\/b>\u00a0or Mars Atmospheric Constellation Observatory (JPL collaboration), proposing a network of microsatellites around Mars to \u201ccharacterize the 3-D structure of the Martian atmosphere,\u201d was chosen as a concept study.<\/p>\n MODIS direct broadcast<\/b><\/a>\u00a0data is served as McIDAS area files to all McIDAS users.<\/p>\n The ADR salt pill after assembly of the can, just prior to salt growth.<\/p><\/div>\n NASA approved the\u00a0Astro-E2<\/b>\u00a0mission on which the SSEC-built Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator, the \u201ccoldest known object in space,\u201d will cool the XRS instrument.\u00a0(More in February In the News)<\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Momentous Occasions<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jonathan Thom (SSEC) works with Douglas MacAyeal (University of Chicago) to put a weather station on iceberg B-15.<\/p><\/div>\n Automatic Weather Stations<\/b><\/a>\u00a0and GPS equipment were placed on B-15, the monster iceberg SSEC monitored since its birth in March 2000.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Buses drove through the Monona Chris Velden and SSEC (including CIMSS) staff organized AMS 11th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Left: Jim Butler, NOAA\/CDML ICDS captured 100-year-old air for NOAA\u2019s Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory, was featured in\u00a0Ripley\u2019s Believe It or Not.<\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Proteus aircraft visited in July to fetch the NASA\/Langley NAST-I instrument tested here before the CLAMS field campaign.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dan De Slover testing NASA’s NAST-I with SSEC’s AERI, on the front lawn of SSEC.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n SDI\u00a0<\/b><\/a>(SSEC Desktop Ingestor) card number 100 was built in September, in the fourth year making this satellite ingest system.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n SSEC was first to ingest the\u00a0first GOES-12\u00a0<\/b>image and display it on the Web.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n WIYN Observatory<\/b>\u00a0celebrates fifth year of operations in October, with SSEC designed and built control system.<\/p>\n Technological Advances<\/strong><\/p>\n 6 year comparison of the\u00a0GOES-8 ABBA<\/b><\/a>\u00a0fire product with Brazil\u2019s product that uses NOAA AVHRR data highlighted the need for a combined sensor fire detection method.<\/p>\n Ability to ingest, serve and display NOAAPORT\u2019s NEXRAD data was added to\u00a0McIDAS<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n Added lots of enhancements to\u00a0VISIT<\/a>View<\/b>\u2014overlays, audio\/annotation recording, etc.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Grain moisture in a field.<\/p><\/div>\n Agricultural model,<\/b>\u00a0PALMS, was developed to track and forecast soil moisture.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n AMANDA<\/b>\u00a0detected a neutrino, proving that the technology works. (Nature<\/i>,<\/a>\u00a022 March).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lidar optical engineer Igor Razenkov with new lidar.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n Arctic High Spectral Resolution Lidar<\/b><\/a>\u00a0is produced for Alaska\u2019s North Slope.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Surface temperatures<\/p><\/div>\n AVHRR Polar Pathfinder<\/b><\/a>\u00a0cloud detection algorithm was revised and delivered to U.Colorado.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Data Center\u00a0<\/b><\/a>added NEXRAD radar data and data from China\u2019s polar-orbiting and geostationary satellites (FY2B and FY1C), the US polar-orbiting satellite NOAA-16, and GOES-12.<\/p>\n For\u00a0VisAD<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n McIDAS-Lite<\/b>\u00a0[sic]<\/i>\u00a0was produced for browsing satellite data, both local and remote.<\/p>\n McIDAS<\/b><\/a>\u00a0was upgraded to version 7.8 in May.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Scanning HIS<\/b><\/a>, our high spectral resolution aircraft instrument, is playing a key role in the validation of satellite data from NASA Terra and GOES; a busy future is expected in keeping up with forthcoming U.S. weather and earth science satellites.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Partial methane map<\/p><\/div>\n The Scanning-HIS<\/b><\/a>\u00a0helped confirm that methane levels were back to normal over Hutchinson, KS, demonstrating a new capability.<\/p>\n Viewing the Earth<\/strong><\/p>\n GOES-9<\/b><\/a>\u00a0was removed from storage. Only SSEC received data, made images.<\/p>\n Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/i>\u00a0used SSEC\u2019s vast data archives to illustrate historical events with images from space.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cleveland Volcano, via MODIS<\/p><\/div>\n MODIS<\/b><\/a>\u00a0images showed the ash plume of the Cleveland Volcano on Chuginadak Island in Alaska\u2019s Aleutian Islands, utilizing the infrared to more clearly delineate smoke from cloud.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n MODIS Great Lakes image, 9 January 2002<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n New Web page<\/b><\/a>\u00a0serves images from SSEC\u2019s Terra MODIS direct broadcast antenna.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n New geostationary satellite browser<\/b>\u00a0provides imagery for five geostationary satellites with animation and zoom capability.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Research Progress<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n January 1990-1995<\/p><\/div>\n 12-year\u00a0climatology<\/a><\/b>\u00a0shows that cloud cover has fallen slightly in the cold spots of Asia and North America in the last four years. While this change in cloud cover cast doubt on the theory that aircraft contrails increase cloud cover, the decrease appears to have been accompanied by warmer temperatures in the last four winters.<\/p>\n ABBA fire products<\/b><\/a>\u00a0are being used to study land-use and land-cover change and carbon dynamics in Western Amazonia.<\/p>\n AFWEX<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>observations of upper tropospheric water vapor show an unexpected level of agreement, but significant effort will be required to reduce uncertainty to the goal of better than 10% of the uppermost 0.1 mm.<\/p>\n AMSU<\/b><\/a>\u00a0data better resolved the thermal signature of Hurricane Floyd\u2019s core than did a numerical model analysis from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Eta model.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n ATOVS data processed by CIMSS IAPP software. Humidity fields for morning orbits on November 30, 2001. Click for a comparison\u2014The IAPP (CIMSS) field appears on the left and ICI (Meteo France) field is on the right.<\/p><\/div>\n ATOVS data<\/b>\u00a0from the NOAA-16 polar orbiting satellite were simultaneously processed by software produced by CIMSS and by Meteo France, to validate both systems.<\/p>\n Automatic Weather Station<\/b><\/a>\u00a0measurements are used in real-time at SSEC.<\/p>\n Beta version of radiative transfer model\u00a0Streamer<\/a><\/b>\u00a0was released, for satellite radiance simulations and calculation of radiative fluxes and heating rates.<\/p>\n Both ABBA and Wildfire ABBA observations were used to intercompare with MOPITT carbon monoxide measurements.<\/p>\n CIMSS\u00a0<\/b><\/a>researchers found that combining radiometric and geometric information yields improved tropospheric temperature and moisture profiles when compared to those inferred from either system alone.<\/p>\n Jupiter in a wavelength enabling clouds deep in the atmosphere to be seen<\/p><\/div>\n Cloud structure<\/strong>\u00a0was deduced for Jupiter, consistent with observations by Galileo probe and HST methane-band.\u00a0Click on the small image for a pair of images. The left image of the pair was taken in a wavelength allowing only the top of the atmosphere to be seen.<\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cloudtop pressure product<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n Cloud Top Pressure<\/b><\/a>\u00a0product was found to improve forecasts when used in the Eta model.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wind measurements from MODIS data over the Arctic<\/p><\/div>\n Computer code,<\/strong>\u00a0originally written to derive wind measurements from geostationary weather satellite data, has been modified for MODIS data mapped to a polar stereographic projection.<\/b><\/p>\n Correlations<\/b>\u00a0between aerosol optical thickness measurements derived from the Aeronet sun photometer network and those derived from GOES-8 varied from 0.82 to 0.93 for values below 1.5, in South America.\u00a0(More in February In the News)<\/i><\/p>\n Coupled with a 65 kt ship observation, the Tropical Cyclones group\u2019s\u00a0AMSU data<\/a><\/b>\u00a0provided the catalyst for NHC to begin issuing hurricane advisories on newly formed Hurricane Noel.<\/p>\n Cumulative fire composite generation is increased from every 3 hours to every half hour, using\u00a0WF ABBA.<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Longwave measurements. Click for comparison.<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n Experimental retrievals<\/strong>\u00a0including the effects of surface emissivity were compared to retrievals using the routine GOES algorithm, resulting in slight improvement and showing that it is important to account for surface attributes.\u00a0(More in next month\u2019s In the News)<\/i><\/p>\n For the post-launch validation of AIRS advanced temperature and water vapor sounding capabilities, SSEC is now prepared to derive a \u201cbest estimate\u201d atmospheric state over the\u00a0ARM<\/a><\/b>\u00a0site in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Total precipitable water derived from MODIS data.<\/p><\/div>\n Global precipitable water<\/b>\u00a0product will give continuous measurements over the series of NASA earth science satellites, starting with the MODIS instrument on Terra.\u00a0(More in February In the News.)<\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Winds at night around Tropical Storm Florence<\/p><\/div>\n GOES 3.9 micron channel<\/b><\/a>\u00a0was used to derive nighttime low-level wind fields, improved coverage by about 50% with similar accuracy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Upper Tropospheric wind measurements, 2002 GWINDEX.<\/p><\/div>\n GOES WINDs EXperiment<\/b>\u00a0produced wind measurements from GOES-10 “rapid-scan” imagery.\u00a0(Note: the link is to the current, second GWINDEX.)<\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1992 HSP data produces black hole evidence.<\/p><\/div>\n HSP data<\/b><\/a>\u00a0was used to deduce existence of a black hole.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n ICDS<\/b>\u00a0performed strongly in Critical Design Review of hot water drill that needs to drill down about a mile.<\/p>\n Intercalibration code<\/b><\/a>\u00a0was written and tested for NOAA\u2019s High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS) for potential operational use.<\/p>\n MODIS<\/b><\/a>\u00a0is shown to be better than GOES at viewing fog and stratus.<\/p>\n Click<\/a> for more Neptune images.<\/p><\/div>\n New circulation features<\/strong>\u00a0on Neptune discovered and clouds characterized.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Winds derived from TS Barry, 4 August.<\/p><\/div>\n NHC acknowledged<\/b><\/a>\u00a0experimental wind measurements made during Tropical Storm Barry as an impressive aid for wind analyses and advisories.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n NOAA now routinely uses the CIMSS algorithm that retrieves\u00a0sea surface temperature<\/a><\/b>\u00a0information from weather satellite data. Information is generated hourly over an area from 60\u00ba N to 45\u00ba S and from 180\u00ba to 30\u00ba, or most of Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Brightness temperature information from cloud data<\/p><\/div>\n On short notice,<\/strong>\u00a0the GOES-8\/10 Imager Clear-Sky (average) brightness temperature experimental product was developed for global numerical modelers (NCEP and ECMWF).<\/p>\n Recharacterized\u00a0<\/b><\/a>shortwave optical properties of various ice particle \u201chabits\u201d for use in a radiative transfer model.<\/p>\n Summary graphics<\/b><\/a>\u00a0outlined the impact of the VIIRS high resolution 11 micron channel on sub-pixel fire characterization.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tropical Cyclones group<\/b>\u00a0makes quality controlled global wind data sets from all geostationary satellites available every 3 hours via ADDE.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Used GOES brightness<\/b><\/a>\u00a0temperature (surface radiation) measurements in novel data comparisons.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Comparison<\/a> for snow<\/p><\/div>\n Used GOES Sounder<\/b><\/a>\u00a0data to identify snow during the day.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Using a modified technique<\/b>\u00a0for identifying low clouds from GOES Sounder data, a scheme for correctly identifying low level maritime clouds along the eastern Pacific was developed; the technique was incorporated into operational NESDIS processing.<\/p>\n Version 3.2<\/b><\/a>\u00a0of the Cloud and Surface Parameter Retrieval (CASPR) system is released to analyze polar AVHRR data.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hurricane Keith in 3-D<\/p><\/div>\n VisAD<\/b><\/a>\u00a0is being used to produce 3-dimensional visualizations of satellite winds, in both static displays and animations.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Example of GIFTS data cube. We\u2019re simulating data from and giving input for 12 GOES instruments (current or planned) including<\/p>\n Wildfire ABBA<\/b><\/a>\u00a0imagery is produced routinely for entire western hemisphere.<\/p>\n WF ABBA<\/b>\u00a0was used to track volcano eruptions, the Viejas wildfire near San Diego, Washington State wildfires.<\/p>\n Wisconsin<\/b><\/a>\u00a0provided more than 90% of figures in the GOES-11 Post-Launch Test (NOAA Technical) report. Sounder data and products were shown to be improved over those from GOES-8.<\/p>\n![\"gifts\"](\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/08\/gifts.gif\")
<\/a>GIFTS-IOMI,\u00a0<\/b>with SSEC playing a key role, successfully conducted its Preliminary Design Review and negotiated Navy and NOAA partnerships that have brought it to the imminent start of the Implementation Phase with launch scheduled for 2005!<\/p>\n![\"The](\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/08\/adrwrule.jpg\")
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Terrace to deliver 2000 students.<\/p><\/div>\n\n
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Right: Tony Wendricks, Univ. Wisconsin<\/p><\/div>\n![\"Prot-ltl\"](\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/08\/Prot-ltl.jpg\")
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<\/a>18\u00a0AERI<\/b>s now operate around the world for research and forecasting.<\/p>\n![\"ltlAERIsvrwx\"](\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/08\/ltlAERIsvrwx.jpg\")
<\/a>AERI<\/b>\u00a0continued to show its usefulness in severe weather forecasting.<\/p>\n![\"ltlPALMS\"](\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/08\/ltlPALMS.jpg\")
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<\/a>PIFTS<\/b>\u00a0measurements showed good agreement with those from AERI.<\/p>\n![\"Partial](\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/08\/ltlmethane.jpg\")
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<\/a>We provided special global imagery and other products to Japan\u2019s new\u00a0National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation<\/a><\/b>\u00a0for display in real time on their 6 meter globe suspended from the ceiling and covered with millions of LEDs.<\/p>\n![\"January](\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/08\/ltlcloudclim.gif\")
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<\/a>2001 fire season<\/b>\u00a0statistics showed increased, but below average, burning in South America.<\/p>\n![\"ltlarct-winds\"](\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/08\/ltlarct-winds.gif\")
<\/a>Arctic and Antarctic satellite-derived winds<\/b>\u00a0were produced for the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF), NASA\u2019s Data Assimilation Office, and the U.S. Navy.<\/p>\n![\"ATOVS](\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/08\/ltlIAPP.gif\")
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<\/a>CIMSS and NOAA\u2019s ASPT participated in GOES-12 prelaunch activities and performed the GOES-12 science test.<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>Full disk image<\/b>\u00a0of cloud-top pressure was produced from new GOES-12 Imager data.<\/p>\n![\"Total](\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/08\/ltlTPW.jpg\")
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Click <\/a>for more.<\/p><\/div>\n\n
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<\/a>With more rigorous surface emissivity measurements<\/strong>, Eta-model forecasts improved when GOES sounder data are used.<\/p>\n