{"id":4935,"date":"2001-02-05T12:52:59","date_gmt":"2001-02-05T18:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/?p=4935"},"modified":"2013-09-18T09:40:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T14:40:29","slug":"ssec-2000-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/articles\/4935","title":{"rendered":"SSEC 2000 Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"CENTER\">by Terri Gregory and many others<\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/media\/Highlights2000\/highlights2000.html#Acronyms\">Acronyms<\/a>\u00a0are listed at the end.<\/p>\n<h2>Momentous Occasions<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_4936\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/08\/dawnltl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4936\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4936\" alt=\"(R.Kohrs)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/08\/dawnltl.jpg\" width=\"227\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4936\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(R.Kohrs)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dawn of the Millennium image for January 1 combines GOES-East and West images to celebrate the new year over North and South America, is made available on the Web.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SSEC celebrates as MODIS\u2019 earth view door opens February 24, and images are viewed in McIDAS within 24 hours via NASA\/GSFC\u2019s ADDE server.<\/p>\n<p>Campus Open House brings about 300 people to our building in August, involving all building organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Interim Director Hank Revercomb gives second annual State of SSEC speech; Dean Hinshaw presides.<\/p>\n<p>We celebrate CIMSS\u2019 20th anniversary and our new MODIS antenna\u2014talks and presentations, Governor\u2019s proclamation, plaque, reception. Bill Smith, Paul Menzel, Dean Hinshaw all stress worldwide impact.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4937\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/08\/bldg-w-dome.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4937\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4937\" alt=\"On August 5, SSEC\u2019s building gained a new dome-covered antenna and a new data type\u2014MODIS.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/08\/bldg-w-dome.jpg\" width=\"414\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/08\/bldg-w-dome.jpg 414w, https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/08\/bldg-w-dome-247x300.jpg 247w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On August 5, SSEC\u2019s building gained a new dome-covered antenna and a new data type\u2014MODIS.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The SSEC X-band direct broadcast antenna completes a successful 30-day acceptance test in December through teamwork between SSEC and SeaSpace Corp., capturing over 100 MODIS passes automatically.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Research and Technology Advances<\/h2>\n<p>GIFTS, NASA New Millennium Program, gets underway as major new advance in geostationary observing.<\/p>\n<p>Data Center supports reception of MODIS data through SSEC\u2019s new X-band Direct Downlink Antenna.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4932\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/1999\/01\/adr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4932\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4932\" alt=\"The Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator is shown with its hundreds of gold wires.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/1999\/01\/adr.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4932\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Adiabatic Demagnetization<br \/>Refrigerator is shown with its hundreds of gold wires.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator is selected for University of Chicago\u2019s camera, HAWC, and is invited to be part of Joule, proposed replacement for the lost XRS, to cool detectors to almost absolute zero.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Cloud InfraRed Radiometer for UnESS is one of four innovative concept studies funded in NASA\u2019s University Earth System Science Project.<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma City tornado studies demonstrate the power of AERI-plus-GOES soundings for severe storm Nowcasting applications.\u00a0<i>(Wayne Feltz and Ralph Peterson)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Neptune dark spot study is one of 212 accepted for 9th Hubble Space Telescope observing cycle.<\/p>\n<p>CIMSS\u2019 Tropical Cyclones group\u2019s satellite data analyses improve \u201cinitial position\u201d errors in numerical models, leading to \u201ca steady decrease in track forecast errors for Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lidar group receives support from DOD\u2019s University Research Instrumentation Program that funds state-of-the-art equipment to enable faster scans with the Volume Imaging Lidar.<\/p>\n<h2>Infrastructure<\/h2>\n<p>Executive director Bob Fox retires and three execs replace him\u2014John Roberts, Executive Director for Administration; Tom Achtor for Science; Fred Best for Technology.<\/p>\n<p>Technical Computing and Data Center organize to effectively meet and survive the Y2K transition.<\/p>\n<p>Schwerdtfeger Library wins funds for preservation of and access to substantial collection of Wilson Bentley&#8217;s photomicrographs of ice crystals taken by.<\/p>\n<p>Email accounting notification modified to hold reports till a user requests them.<\/p>\n<p>Technical Computing put extra Web serving capacity online to support hurricane season.<\/p>\n<p>Phone and project lists are made available to Palm Pilot users.<\/p>\n<p>The SSEC color poster printer works overtime to print jumbo-sized MODIS images in the first few weeks of MODIS operations. One or two non-MODIS researchers also print posters during the year&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Knights of Technical Computing vanquish by the numbers:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"SQUARE\">\n<li>Resolve 1,973 formal requests<\/li>\n<li>Solve about 2000 informally reported problems (walk-ins, phone calls)<\/li>\n<li>Purchase, set up, deliver 30 PCs, more than a dozen laptops, and about 20 Unix machines.<\/li>\n<li>Retire more than 150 pieces of old equipment.<\/li>\n<li>Back up approximately 41 terabytes of data and perform 95 recoveries.<\/li>\n<li>Respond successfully to two dozen security incidents\u2014SPAM relaying, anonymous FTP site abuse, system compromises.<\/li>\n<li>Store online more than 6 terabytes of information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Innovative Collaborations<\/h2>\n<p>SSEC brings third major winter cloud experiment to Madison\u2019s Truax Field\u2014the Wisconsin Snow and Cloud\u2013Terra 2000 experiment uses NASA\u2019s ER-2 instrument measurements to validate NASA\u2019s new satellite science products.<\/p>\n<p>SSEC\u2019s new Ice Coring and Drilling Service serves all National Science Foundation projects at high latitudes and high altitudes, from Greenland to Antarctica.<\/p>\n<p>The biomass burning group continues to make data and expertise available to scientists in Canada and South America as well as in the U.S. during a year of serious wild fires.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers SAFARI in southern Africa to validate Terra measurements with Scanning-HIS, to help solve continental climate puzzle.<\/p>\n<p>The science of water vapor measurement is advanced by a 2-phased field program, led by SSEC personnel working with DOE ARM.<\/p>\n<p>The International MODIS\/AIRS Processing package is distributed by SSEC to process MODIS direct broadcast data in the USA, UK, Norway, Japan, Russia, Australia, China.<\/p>\n<p>CIMSS scientists are a major force in GOES-11 science test.<\/p>\n<p>SSEC scientists are noted users of Internet2 which provides high-speed access for collaborative research and interactive training and teaching.<\/p>\n<p>More than half the images on NESDIS\u2019 GOES derived-products poster are provided by CIMSS scientists.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Lindstrom works with John Young (AOS) to record rain all during Dane County\u2019s soggiest, rainiest, record-breaking summer.<\/p>\n<p>Sun\u2019s Java Web site features VisAD in its lead story for February 10, with Unidata and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.<\/p>\n<p>CIMSS scientists make GOES-derived products available to the Unidata community for feedback on their utility from a wider segment of the weather science community.<\/p>\n<p>Rose Pertzborn chosen to exchange outreach expertise with NASA Headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>SSEC collaborates with Raytheon, Goddard Space Flight Center, Swales Aerospace, Los Alamos and other esteemed organizations in the proposed Observing Platform for Ultraviolet Solar System Science, with an excellent chance of future funding.<\/p>\n<h2>Data and Information<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_4938\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/08\/g11-ltl.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4938\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4938\" alt=\"First GOES-11 image, 11 May 2000.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/08\/g11-ltl.gif\" width=\"103\" height=\"103\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4938\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First GOES-11 image, 11 May 2000.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>First official GOES-11 image is posted on SSEC\u2019s home page May 11, one week after launch, as the Data Center continues to handle GOES imagery best.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to close cooperation between CIMSS and the Data Center, CIMSS researchers use McIDAS daily to investigate radiometric performance and accuracy of MODIS products.<\/p>\n<p>Automatic Weather Stations make possible \u201cweather observations \u2026 across the 850 miles between McMurdo and the South Pole, \u2026 the continent\u2019s busiest air route.\u201d (Jack Williams,\u00a0<i>USA Today<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>The Data Center receives and archives all Level-0 (unprocessed) MODIS data for scientists.<\/p>\n<p>McIDAS version 7.7 is released.<\/p>\n<p>CIMSS researchers process global MODIS datasets in-house on a 16-CPU SGI Origin2000 with 1 Terabyte of disk space, allowing rapid debugging and improvement of operational algorithms which are then delivered to NASA GSFC.<\/p>\n<p>Data Center begins providing NOAA-16 data to McIDAS users.<\/p>\n<p>Within hours of MODIS \u201cfirst light,\u201d images are prepared at CIMSS using custom IDL software which demonstrates that all spectral bands are alive.<\/p>\n<p>Beautifully enhanced movie loops\u2014hundreds of images\u2014of hurricanes Georges and Bertha are provided to the Discovery Channel for a program on storms.<\/p>\n<p>GMS image, artistically color-enhanced, shows dawn breaking over New Zealand on January 1, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>We provide near real-time enhanced GOES imagery to the Grand Canyon Parks Service to aid them in their fight against forest fires.<\/p>\n<p>Data Center provides GSAS archive data to universities free of charge via online ordering.<\/p>\n<p>McIDAS adds Linux to its list of supported platforms.<\/p>\n<p>SSEC makes good on a promise to routinely process MODIS direct broadcast data to Level-1B by the end of 2000.<\/p>\n<p>IMAPP software for UNIX platforms distributed by SSEC under the GNU General Public License (GPL) is ported to Windows NT by ScanEx in Moscow, Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Sky Aces, a local hot air balloon company, uses McIDAS data for flight and course decisions.<\/p>\n<p>McIDAS Vsn. 7.7 is revised to handle MODIS data.<\/p>\n<p>New MUG sites in 2000<\/p>\n<ul type=\"SQUARE\">\n<li>Meteorological Office of the United Kingdom<\/li>\n<li>NWS Honolulu, HI<\/li>\n<li>The Information &amp; Computer Center &#8211; Mongolia<\/li>\n<li>Digital Cyclone, Inc.<\/li>\n<li>Meteorological Satellite Center &#8211; Japan<\/li>\n<li>Weathernews, Inc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Service\/Education<\/h2>\n<p>Wilt Sanders is new chair of the Academic Staff Executive Committee of the Academic Staff Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Jean Phillips is elected to a three-year term on the university&#8217;s Professional Development and Recognition Committee to help recognize academic staff.<\/p>\n<p>UW\u2014Madison\u2019s summer Pre-college Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence offers Space Exploration as a 3-week workshop for preteens.<\/p>\n<p>The Schwerdtfeger Library, with other campus libraries, hosts exhibits on \u201cSnowflake\u201d Bentley.<\/p>\n<p>Earth Science Component for Academic Professional Enhancement is one of 26 proposals funded out of 163 received by NASA\u2019s Earth Science Enterprise Education Program.<\/p>\n<p>SSEC\u2019s Office of Space Science Education supports local middle schools in winter EarthKAM mission. The program and Web site hosting student pictures taken from the Space Shuttle are lauded.<\/p>\n<h2>Research<\/h2>\n<p>AMRC monitors largest proven iceberg ever, the Ross Ice Shelf&#8217;s B-15. B-17 and other bergs follow, some discovered by AMRC, bringing more public attention than any single weather event to SSEC and University Communications.<\/p>\n<p>Completely redesigned CIMSS Web site sports search engine and links to most-sought pages.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Hibbard guest edits February issue of\u00a0<i>Computer Graphics,<\/i>\u00a0a SIGGRAPH publication, focusing on new visualization techniques.<\/p>\n<p>Weather research gets its own university promo\u2014soggy pair of rubber boots catches eyes of regional-magazine readers.<\/p>\n<p>UW\u2014Madison\u2019s physics department includes SSEC in new graduate brochure because \u201cSSEC is an important attraction for potential physics graduate students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dayne-o-Meter brings SSEC\u2019s building national television exposure, delights Dean and Director.<\/p>\n<p>Many SSEC and NOAA CIMSS people appear on radio and TV and in print and speak before audiences of all sizes and education levels\u2014explain our work, provide expertise, challenge assumptions, broaden horizons.<\/p>\n<h2>Honors<\/h2>\n<p>Professor Emeritus Donald R. Johnson and Professor Francis Bretherton are named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for their teaching, research and service.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Schmit receives Department of Commerce Silver Medal for developing products with data from the latest generation of geostationary satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Prestigious AMS Banner Miller Award for two significant papers on hurricane forecasting techniques. (Christopher Velden, Timothy Olander, and Steven Wanzong and CIRA colleague Raymond Zehr; published in\u00a0<i>Monthly Weather Review<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>Weather and Forecasting<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>NOAA employees in SSEC\u2019s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies receive Bronze Medals for work on COMET and VISIT programs and Brazilian fire-monitoring activities.<\/p>\n<p>SSEC\u2019s EarthKAM program is one of thirteen university outreach programs honored by UW\u2014Madison Chancellor David Ward in the fourth annual University &amp; Community Partnerships event.<\/p>\n<p>UW\u2014Madison lidar research poster is best student poster out of 40 at the 14th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence. (Shane Mayor, Greg Tripoli, Ed Eloranta)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurther Development of the International ATOVS Processing Package (IAPP)\u201d receives first prize in the International ATOVS Study Conference-XI\u2019s poster session. (Jun Li, Hal Woolf, Hong Zhang and Thomas Achtor)<\/p>\n<h2>Acronyms List<\/h2>\n<p>A<sup>3<\/sup>RI\u2014Antarctic Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Institute<br \/>\nABBA\u2014Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm<br \/>\nADDE\u2014Abstract Data Distribution Environment<br \/>\nAERI\u2014Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer<br \/>\nAIRS\u2014Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder<br \/>\nAMRC\u2014Antarctic Meteorological Research Center<br \/>\nAMS\u2014American Meteorological Society<br \/>\nAOS\u2014(Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences<br \/>\nATOVS\u2014Advanced TIROS-N Operational Vertical Sounder<br \/>\nCIMSS\u2014Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies<br \/>\nDOD\u2014Department Of Defense<br \/>\nEarthKAM\u2014Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle-schoolers<br \/>\nGIFTS\u2014Geostationary Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer<br \/>\nGMS\u2014Geostationary Meteorological Satellite<br \/>\nGOES\u2014Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite<br \/>\nGSAS\u2014Geostationary Satellite Archive System<br \/>\nGSFC\u2014Goddard Space Flight Center<br \/>\nHAWC\u2014High-resolution Airborne Wide-band Camera<br \/>\nIDL\u2014Interactive Data Language<br \/>\nIMAPP\u2014International MODIS\/AIRS Processing Package<br \/>\nLidar\u2014LIght Detection And Ranging<br \/>\nMcIDAS\u2014Man computer Interactive Data Access System<br \/>\nMODIS\u2014MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer<br \/>\nMUG\u2014McIDAS Users\u2019 Group<br \/>\nNASA\u2014National Aeronautics and Space Administration<br \/>\nNESDIS\u2014National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service<br \/>\nNOAA\u2014National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<br \/>\nNWS\u2014National Weather Service<br \/>\nOSSE\u2014Office of Space Science Education<br \/>\nSAFARI\u2014Southern African Regional Science Initiative<br \/>\nSGI\u2014Silicon Graphics Incorporated<br \/>\nSIGGRAPH\u2014Special Interest Group on computer GRAPHics<br \/>\nSSEC\u2014Space Science and Engineering Center<br \/>\nUnESS\u2014University class Earth System Science<br \/>\nVIL\u2014Volume Imaging Lidar<br \/>\nVis5D\u2014VISualization of Five-Dimensional data<br \/>\nVisAD\u2014VISualization-Algorithm Development<br \/>\nVISIT\u2014Virtual Institute for Satellite Integration and Training<br \/>\nWV IOP\u2014Water Vapor Intensive Observing Period<br \/>\nXRS\u2014X-Ray Spectrometer<br \/>\nY2K\u2014Year 2000<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SSEC Highlights 2000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-articles"],"acf":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4935"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5199,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935\/revisions\/5199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}