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ASP TEAM WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 7, 2002

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ITEMS FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR:

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Input Provided for NESDIS 2002 Annual Report:  Figures were provided to N. Nickell for an article in NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) annual report regarding the operational Hazard Mapping System (HMS).  Input was coordinated with D. McNamara of the Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution (OSDPD) Satellite Services Division (SSD).  One of the requested figures was a time series comparison showing the improvement of version 6.0 of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Wildfire Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm (WF_ABBA) over the previous version (version 5.9) during the past wildfire season in North America. (E. Prins, E/RA2, 608-263-6607, C. Schmidt, CIMSS, 608-262-7973, J. Feltz, CIMSS, 608-263-3434) 

WF_ABBA
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This figure shows the reduction of false alarms with version 6.0 of the GOES WF_ABBA during one week at the peak of the 2002 fire season (June 16-22, 2002) in North America.  The increased fires identified with the older version of the Wildfire ABBA are often false alarms. The false alarms in version 5.9 were typically due to reflection off clouds at sunrise and sunset, sun glint from bodies of water, and surface heating during the day.

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Proposal Submitted to NASA's EOS InterDisciplinary Science Program:  A proposal titled "Analysis of Real Time Biomass-Burning Transport Model Data with Remote Sensing Products" was submitted to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's  Earth Observing System Interdisciplinary Science (EOS/IDS) Earth Science Enterprise's Modeling and Data Analysis Research program.  The Principal Investigator is J. Reid of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL-Monterey) with D. Westphal (NRL-Monterey) and E. Prins serving as Co-PI's.  This proposal is an extension of a 3-year study focused on assimilating real-time fire products into the Naval Aerosol Analysis and Prediction System (NAAPS) to diagnose and predict aerosol loading and transport in real time.  Part of this proposal includes the development and implementation of a global geostationary fire detection system and integration with current and future NASA EOS and international satellite-derived aerosol and trace gas products (e.g. ozone, carbon monoxide, methane, aerosols).  (E. Prins, E/RA2, 608-263-6607, C. Schmidt, CIMSS, 608-262-7973, J. Feltz, CIMSS, 608-263-3434)

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NEXT WEEK:

Satellite Direct Readout for the Americas Conference: Next week T. Schmit will attend the Satellite Direct Readout Users Conference for the Americas conference and speak on the following topics: data changes on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-12+ Imagers, the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI), and the Hyperspectral Environmental Suite (HES). The presentations are available upon request. T. Acthor and A. Huang will be presenting software packages for international users and high spectral resolution data compression. (T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291)

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CIMSS WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 7, 2002

IN THE PRESS:

ITEMS FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR:

ITEMS FOR THE ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR:

ITEMS FOR THE OFFICE DIRECTOR, ORA:

ITEMS FOR THE DIVISION CHIEF, ARAD:

CIMSS Board Meeting: The Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) Board of Directors met on Wednesday, December 4.  Board members consist of personnel from the University of Wisconsin (UW) Graduate School, NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), UW's Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences department, UW's Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC), and CIMSS.  Marie Colton (Office of Research and Applications/Center for Satellite Applications and Research) and Jeff Key (Advanced Satellite Products Team) were in attendance. (S. Ackerman, CIMSS, 608-263-3647, T. Achtor, CIMSS, 608-263-4206)

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