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Positive Impact of Polar Winds on Forecasts: The European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF) demonstrated a positive impact of the MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) polar winds on short-range forecasts. N. Bormann of the ECMWF reported that there is a fairly large forecast improvement for the northern hemisphere, particularly over the North Pole. The southern hemisphere (Antarctica) is neutral to slightly negative in this case study, which may be due to errors in the model first guess used in the retrieval. For both poles there is a strong impact on the mean wind analysis. (J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605, C. Velden, CIMSS, 608-262-9168, D. Santek, CIMSS, 608-263-7410)
Figure caption: Root mean square error in the 500 hPa geopotential
height for model forecasts with (red) and without (blue) the MODerate-resolution
Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) polar winds data compared to the verifying
analysis. Results are for the North Pole region and demonstrate a
positive impact (improvement) in the forecasts. This model impact
study was performed by the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting
(ECMWF).
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NASA GISS Seminar: J. Key gave an invited seminar on the polar winds project at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City on Friday, March 8. Much of the day was spent discussing cloud detection and cloud property retrieval with W. Rossow, who leads the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP). (J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605)
Proposal Submitted to NASA LBA-ECO: A joint proposal was submitted to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) research announcement for ecological research in phase 2 of the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA-ECO). The title of the proposal is "Land-cover land-use changes in the tri-frontier area of Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru: implications for sustainable land use in southwestern Amazonia;" it is a joint collaboration with I. F. Brown (Woods Hole Research Center) serving as the principal investigator and five co-investigators from the U.S., Brazil, and Peru. The proposal includes the generation of an 8-year half-hourly Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Wildfire Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm (WF_ABBA) fire product data set for South America which will be made available to the research community for multiple land-use application studies. In addition the proposal contains a multi-sensor validation/calibration component where WF_ABBA fire results will be compared with Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) fire products and ground truth in South America to get a better handle on multi-sensor fire product applications and data fusion. (E. Prins, E/RA2, 608-263-6607)
Review of MODIS Fire Manuscript: E. Prins reviewed a manuscript submitted to the Remote Sensing of the Environment special issue on land surface monitoring with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). The title of the manuscript is "The MODIS Fire Products." It contains a concise but thorough overview of the MODIS fire products to date, current status, and future plans. Highlights include an annual composite of the global MODIS fire product and a summary of validation efforts. (E. Prins, E/RA2, 608-263-6607)
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Invited COMET Presentation: S. Bachmeier gave an invited presentation entitled "An Introduction to Water Vapor Satellite Imagery" at the joint Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC) / Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education and Training (COMET) Winter Weather Forecasting Course in Boulder, Colorado on March 1, 2002. Examples from Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) and Terra MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) platforms were used to demonstrate a variety of water vapor image applications. (S. Bachmeier , CIMSS, 608-263-3958)
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