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ITEMS FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR:
ITEMS FOR THE ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR:
ITEMS FOR THE OFFICE DIRECTOR, ORA:
Successful NASA Proposals: Eight proposals submitted by Office of Research and Applications, Cooperative Insitute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS), Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC), and NASA (at CIMSS) scientists to the NASA program on "Earth System Science Using Data from Terra, Aqua, and ACRIM Satellites" have been selected for funding. The projects and principal investigators are MODIS cloud properties (P. Menzel), polar winds (J. Key), MODIS cloud mask development (S. Ackerman, CIMSS), multi-layered clouds and cloud phase (B. Baum, NASA), land surface characterization with AIRS and MODIS (R. Knuteson, SSEC), AIRS validation (H. Revercomb, SSEC), retrieval, radiance, and forward model validation (D. Tobin, SSEC), and MODIS direct broadcast (L. Gumley, CIMSS). (J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605)
CIMSS Tropical Cyclone Intensity Estimation
Technique at the Tropical Prediction Center: A technique developed
at the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
(CIMSS) to estimate tropical cyclone intensity using Advanced Microwave
Sounding Unit (AMSU) radiances has been evaluated by the NOAA Tropical
Prediction Center (TPC). This technique was developed under a recently
concluded USWRP Joint Hurricane Testbed (JHT) project. The testing and
evaluation activities conducted by TPC during the Atlantic tropical
cyclone season in 2003 produced very encouraging results. As a result,
TPC Director Max Mayfield has decided that TPC will operationally
implement the technique. The JHT staff will continue working with the
TPC staff and the CIMSS researchers on the actual implementation
process during the coming months. (C. Velden, CIMSS,
608-262-9168, D. Herndon, CIMSS)
ITEMS FOR THE DIVISION CHIEF, ARAD
Abstracts submitted for the National Highway Visibility Conference: Two abstracts were submitted for the National Highway Visibility Conference which will be held May 17-19, 2004, in Madison, WI. The conference is sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. The titles are "Challenges in fog detection from current satellite data and numerical model output" and "Future Geostationary Observations for the Improved Detection and Short Range Prediction of Fog". (T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291, R. Aune, E/RA2, 608-262-1071)
Arctic Climate Change Workshop: An international workshop on Arctic climate change was held at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, NY, January 7-9, 2003. J. Key was an invited participant and spoke on surface, cloud, and radiative properties of the Arctic as observed by satellite. The workshop, titled "Central Arctic: Battleground of Natural and Man-Made Climate Forcing", covered topics from current Arctic climate characteristics to the relationship between recent Arctic warming and that experienced in the 1930s and 1940s. (J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605)
Ice Surface Temperature Paper Accepted for Publication: A paper titled "Sea ice surface temperature product from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)" was accepted for publication in the journal IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. The authors are D. Hall (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)), J. Key, K.A. Casey (GSFC), G.A. Riggs (GSFC), and D.J. Cavalieri (GSFC). The paper introduces the MODIS sea ice temperature product, the retrieval methodology, and validation over the Arctic and Antarctic. (J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605)
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