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ITEMS FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR:
ITEMS FOR THE ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR:
ITEMS FOR THE OFFICE DIRECTOR, ORA:
CIMSS Board of Directors Meeting: The Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) held its annual Board of Directors meeting on December 12, 2003. The Board consists of representatives from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Langley Research Center, the NESDIS Office of Research and Applications, the University of Wisconsin Graduate School, the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC), and CIMSS. CIMSS scientists prepared project summaries for the Board, made available on CD. (J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605)
Analysis of GOES-10 WF_ABBA Fire Products Provided to USFS: In response to a request from T. Bobbe and B. Quayle of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service (USFS) Remote Sensing Applications Center, an analysis of GOES-10 Wildfire Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm (WF_ABBA) fire products was performed for the Cedar fire, near San Diego California, for use in an ongoing investigation of this human-induced fire. The GOES-10 imagery showed an elevated brightness temperature in the 3.9 micron band at 0130 UTC on October 26 with the first GOES-10 WF_ABBA detect at 0215 UTC. Over the next 5 days, the GOES-10 WF_ABBA product monitored the progression of the fire as it changed directions in association with the Santa Anna winds. A 5-day animation was provided for further analysis. (C. Schmidt, CIMSS, 608-262-7973, E. Prins, E/RA2, 530-271-2256)
ITEMS FOR THE DIVISION CHIEF, ARAD:
COMET Guest Instructor: S. Bachmeier of the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) was a guest instructor at the Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC) Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorological Education and Training (COMET) Winter Weather Forecasting Course in Boulder, Colorado on December 11, 2003, giving two presentations ("Using Water Vapor Imagery" and "A Satellite Perspective of the Great Western Storm of March 2003"). He also led a Virtual Institute for Satellite Integration Training (VISIT) lesson on "Water Vapor Channel Satellite Imagery" while on travel at the COMET facilities (with four National Weather Service forecast offices remotely attending the tele-training), providing yet another demonstration of the powerful flexibility of the VISITview software. (S. Bachmeier, CIMSS, 608-263-3958)
OPTRAN in McIDAS: A FORTRAN-90 version of the Optical Path TRANsmittance (OPTRAN) radiative transfer model from P. van Delst was implemented in the Man computer Interactive Data Access System (McIDAS) system. Initial radiance to brightness temperature conversions are similar to those from the Pressure layer Fast Algorithm for Atmospheric Transmittances (PFAAST) model. For example, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Imager infrared window channel calculations are within 0.5 mW/m2-sr-cm-1. The next step is to compare more channels with each other and to observations. (T. Olander, CIMSS, 608-265-8005, T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291, J. Nelson, CIMSS, 608-263-6013)
GOES-R Telecons: Four telecons were held dealing with various Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-R issues. The topics were the program committee of the third GOES(-R) Users' Conference, data compression of high-spectral resolution data, restarting the GOES-R ReBroadcast (GRB) working group, and the various roles of the Hyperspectral Environmental Suite-Disk Sounding (HES-DS) tasks. (T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291)
Biomass Burning Aerosol Modeling Paper Presented at AGU Fall Meeting: An oral presentation titled "Modeling and Mechanisms of Intercontinental Transport of Biomass-Burning Plumes" was given by J. Reid (Naval Research Laboratory-Monterey) at the fall American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting held in San Francisco December 8-12, 2003. The paper provided 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. The presentation focused on intercontinental transport from three major biomass burning source regions: Africa, South/Central America, and Siberia. E. Prins served as a co-author. (E. Prins, E/RA2, 530-271-2256, C. Schmidt, CIMSS, 608-262-7973, J. Feltz, CIMSS, 608-263-3434)
Paper on MODIS and AIRS Presented at AGU Fall
Meeting: Jun Li gave a presentation entitled "Synergistic use of
MODIS and AIRS data for retrieval of cloud properties" at the American
Geophysical Union's (AGU) Fall meeting held in San Francisco December
8-12, 2003. The coauthors are Jun Li, F. Sun , T. J. Schmit and
W. P. Menzel.
(J. Li, CIMSS, 608-262-3755)
Manuscript Reviewed: A. Heidinger reviewed a manuscript submitted to the Journal of Atmospheric Sciences. The paper dealt with the retrieval of the aerosol extinction profile using highly resolved oxygen A-band spectra from a space borne sensor. (A. Heidinger, E/RA2, 608-263-6757)
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