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MODIS satellite imagery captures the four seasons over Wisconsin. Photo Credit: SSEC.<\/p><\/div>\n

Each year is ushered in with a renewed pursuit of opportunities and scientific discoveries. As 2014 comes to an end, the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) invites you to look back at what our scientists and engineers (and students, too!) have accomplished.<\/p>\n

While this year may nearly be over, we are already looking forward to the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. So stayed tuned\u2026 2015 promises to be another eventful year.<\/p>\n

Happy New Year!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
1<\/td>\n\"bv3\"<\/a><\/td>\nInvesting in the Future: The Role of Basic Science<\/a><\/p>\n

Fifty years ago, the Kennedy administration promoted national investment in basic scientific research as a way to spur meaningful technological growth.\u00a0Continued investment is critical to scientific and technological progress.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
2<\/td>\n\"drill\"<\/a><\/td>\nIDDO sends new ice coring drill to Greenland<\/a><\/p>\n

Having designed and built what will be the nation\u2019s next generation of ice coring drills, the Ice Drilling Design and Operations group (IDDO) at SSEC sent\u00a0its instrument packing for Greenland on March 26. The Intermediate Depth Drill,\u00a0IDD, is designed to recover ice cores from depths of 1,500 meters\u2014nearly 5,000 feet. Ice coring drills provide scientists with ice samples thousands of years old, from which they can learn about changes in climate and air quality over time.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
3<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nSSEC group helps fill in gaps on remote wind measurements<\/a><\/p>\n

Until recently, researchers grappled with incomplete and inconsistent imagery of winds near the poles. A team led by Matthew Lazzara at SSEC has turned a new page on generating high-quality wind imagery, with a technique that promises improvements for forecasting and numerical weather prediction.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
4<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nStudy Shows Poleward Shift in Tropical Cyclone Maximum Intensity<\/a><\/p>\n

The latitude at which tropical cyclones reach their maximum intensity is migrating away from the tropics, shifting in the direction of the poles at a rate of about one-half degree of latitude per decade in both hemispheres. A study published last spring in the journal Nature\u00a0documents this poleward migration by analyzing global historical tropical cyclone data for the past 30 years.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
5<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nGraduate researcher sees improved accuracy with new temperature validation method<\/a><\/p>\n

Researcher Michelle Feltz, as an undergraduate at UW-Madison, undertook the challenge to develop\u00a0a new temperature validation\u00a0method using GPS radio occultation data. The results of her research were recently published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, in a paper on which she was lead author.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
6<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nHow to create a crash course in satellite remote sensing: One part knowledge, two parts enthusiasm<\/a><\/p>\n

With support from the NOAA\/NASA GOES-R Program Office last year, scientists from SSEC and CIMSS\u00a0developed an intensive bootcamp in the fundamentals of satellite remote sensing and radiative transfer.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
7<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nWeather Ready Nation: An update from Louis Uccellini<\/a><\/p>\n

While in Madison to deliver a keynote address for the Satellites and Education Conference,<\/em>\u00a0Louis Uccellini, NWS\u00a0Director and UW-Madison alumnus, answered some questions\u00a0on some of the most important developments in the Weather Ready Nation initiative in the last year.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
8<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nThe world according to GATE (and GARP): Legacies of a 1974 field campaign<\/a><\/p>\n

By nearly any measure, it was the largest and most complex international field experiment ever conducted in meteorology up to the mid-1970s. Known as the GARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment (GATE) it was the first observing phase of the Global Atmospheric Research Programme (GARP) lasting 100 days during the summer of 1974.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
9<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nBenchmarking the Earth\u2019s Climate from Space: SSEC\u2019s IR Instrument Prototype Ready for Flight<\/a><\/p>\n

In September 2013, SSEC researchers reached an important milestone, bringing them one step (or, in this case, a giant leap) closer to seeing their newly developed satellite instrument technology in orbit: the Absolute Radiance Interferometer (ARI) instrument was declared ready for a spaceflight opportunity by NASA\u2019s Earth Science Technology Office.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
10<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nCloudy with a chance of football: SSEC delivers game-day forecast<\/a><\/p>\n

Not long ago, come rain or storm, outdoor athletic events went on \u2014 regardless of the weather and its potential hazards. But today, improvements in weather forecasting are making it possible to ensure public safety during large outdoor college sporting events.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
11<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nS-HIS instrument provides hurricane data from unmanned aircraft<\/a><\/p>\n

For the third year in a row, SSEC\u00a0was involved in a NASA-led field campaign designed to study hurricane formation and intensity in the Atlantic Ocean Basin. The Hurricane and Severe Storms Sentinel (HS3) campaign uses two Global Hawk unmanned aircraft equipped with scientific instruments, including SSEC’s Scanning HIS, to collect important data about the life cycles of hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
12<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nMilestone delivery: Cloud properties dataset to NCDC<\/a><\/p>\n

Earlier this year, a team of NOAA\u00a0and CIMSS scientists reached a major milestone by delivering an operational PATMOS-x (Pathfinder Atmospheres Extended) cloud properties Climate Data Record (CDR) to the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Each year is ushered in with a renewed pursuit of opportunities and scientific discoveries. As 2014 comes to an end, the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) invites you to look back at what our scientists, engineers, and students have accomplished. Happy New Year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-6855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-articles","tag-cimss"],"acf":{"short_title":"Highlights from 2014","ssec_home_page_carousel_image":false,"guest_author":[{"first_name":"","last_name":"","link":""}],"sub_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6855"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11808,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855\/revisions\/11808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}