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ITEMS FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR:
ITEMS FOR THE ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR:
ITEMS FOR THE OFFICE DIRECTOR, ORA:
CIMSS Follows Isabel: The Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) Tropical Cyclone Research Group was busy following hurricane Isabel this past week. Real-time satellite products were sent to the National Hurricane Center (NHC) and the Satellite Analysis Branch in real time to help track the storm. The products included estimates of environmental wind shear, current storm intensity from the latest CIMSS microwave (Advanced Microwave Sounder Unit) and infrared (Advanced Objective Dvorak Technique) algorithms, and vortex wind structure from high-resolution Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) winds adjusted to surface values. The products were acknowledged as critical information by NHC, especially prior to the hurricane hunter aircraft reaching the storm. (C. Velden, CIMSS, 608-262-9168)
ITEMS FOR THE DIVISION CHIEF, ARAD:
ASPT Visits NWS Forecast Office: Three members of the Advanced Satellite Products Team (ASPT) and two of the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) visited the National Weather Service (NWS) forecast office at Sullivan (KMKX), Wisconsin. NWS personnel provided a demo of the Interactive Forecast Preparation System (IFPS). The Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) and several Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Sounder examples was discussed. Discussions were also held on training and integration of satellite information into the IFPS. (G.S. Wade, E/RA2, 608-263-4743, T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291, R. Aune, E/RA2, 608-262-1071)
Biomass Burning
Aerosol Modeling Abstract Submitted to Fall AGU Meeting:
An abstract titled "Modeling and Mechanisms of Intercontinental
Transport of Biomass-Burning Plumes" was submitted to the fall American
Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting to be held in San Francisco December
8-12, 2003. The paper provides an overview of recent research
activities associated with the joint Navy, NASA (National Aeronautics
and Space Administration), and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration) sponsored Fire Locating and Modeling of Burning
Emissions (FLAMBE, http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/flambe/index.html)
project which provides 5-day forecasts of large biomass burning plumes
with applications in air quality, visibility, and regional radiative
balance studies. The presentation will discuss and compare the
mechanisms of intercontinental transport from the three most important
sources in the world prone to long range advection: Africa,
South/Central America, and Siberia. The first author is J. Reid
(Naval Research Laboratory-Monterey) with E. Prins serving as a
co-author. (E. Prins,
E/RA2, 530-271-2256)
Conference Presentation on HES Data Compression: A talk entitled "Data Compression Studies for NOAA Hyperspectral Environmental Suite (HES) using 3D Integer Wavelet Transforms with 3D Set Partitioning in Hierarchical Trees" was given by Bormin Huang (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies) in Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)'s 2003 International Symposium on Remote Sensing, September 8-12, in Barcelona, Spain. The co-authors of this SPIE paper include Hung-Lung Huang, Hao Chen, Alok Ahuja, Kevin Baggett, Timothy J. Schmit, and Roger W. Heymann. (B. Huang, CIMSS, 608-265-2231, T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291)
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