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ASPB AND CIMSS WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING JULY 14, 2006

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First GOES-13 Sounder Infrared Data: The first infrared data from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-13 Sounder were investigated.  As expected, they are much less noisy than GOES-11 sounder data, which itself was less noisy than GOES-10 sounder data. A Powerpoint presentation on the first GOES-13 Sounder infrared images is available at: http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/projects/goes_n/. The data were acquired by the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) Data Center. (T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291, tim.j.schmit@noaa.gov)

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Figure caption: GOES-13 and GOES-11 Sounder radiance images from July 12th, 2006 (animation).

MODIS Direct Broadcast Data at NWS Milwaukee/Sullivan:  Several MODIS 1km images and 4km products from the University of Wisconsin, Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) Direct Broadcast facility are now being delivered to the National Weather Service (NWS), Milwaukee/Sullivan (MKX) field office for use in the Advanced Weather Information Processing System (AWIPS).  The images are created at SSEC and delivered to the NWS Central Region Headquarters via the Unidata Local Data Manager (LDM).  See http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/~jordang/awips-modis/inday/captures.html for pictures of workstations displaying MODIS data at MKX. The NWS station at Riverton, WY, has also begun using the SSEC direct broadcast MODIS products in their AWIPS environment. (J. Gerth, CIMSS, K. Licitar, NWS MKX, S. Wanzong, CIMSS, 608-263-1950, K. Strabala, CIMSS, J. Robaidek, SSEC, R. Dengel, SSEC)

ITEMS FOR THE DIVISION CHIEF, CoRP

MODIS/AVHRR Cloud Product Consistency Presented at AMS Radiation Conference:  Andrew Heidinger presented results on his recent research to make physically consistent cloud products from NOAA's Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) and NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). The work involved adopting many of the recent MODIS collection 5 improvements into the NOAA operational AVHRR cloud processing.  The goal is to improve our operational AVHRR products and to make long-term time-series from AVHRR that are similar to MODIS.  The results show a significant improvement in agreement in retrievals of ice cloud optical depth and ice cloud particle radius. (A. Heidinger, E/RA2, 608-263-6757, andrew.heidinger@noaa.gov, M. Pavolonis, E/RA2, 608-263-9597, mpav@ssec.wisc.edu)

Abstracts on GOES-R HES Study Submitted to 3rd Symposium on NPOESS/GOES-R: Two abstracts, entitled "GOES IR sounders - the future perspective from the current applications" and "The tradeoff study for the Hyperspectral Environmental Suite (HES) on GOES-R", have been submitted to the "Third Symposium on Future National Operational Environmental Satellite Systems—Strengthening Our Understanding of Weather and Climate” to be held in San Antonio, TX, January 14-18, 2007. Coauthors are Jun Li, Jinlong Li (CIMSS), Timothy J. Schmit, W. Paul Menzel (STAR/NESDIS), and James J. Gurka (OSD/NESDIS. (Jun Li, CIMSS, 608-262-3755, Jun.Li@ssec.wisc.edu)

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