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ITEMS FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR:
ITEMS FOR THE ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR:
ITEMS FOR THE OFFICE DIRECTOR, STAR:
Patent Application Filed for a New Compression Algorithm for Hyper-spectral Sounder Data: On
Monday July 9, 2007, a patent (Application S/N 11/774,704) was filed at
the U.S. patent office for a new compression algorithm for grating
spectrometer hyper-spectral sounder data that came out of the Center
for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR) and Office of Systems
Development (OSD) joint research. The new compression algorithm lead
for this patent at (CUNY) City University of New York was Dr. Irina
Gladkova. (T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291, tim.j.schmit@noaa.gov)
Contribution to the BAMS State of the Climate 2006 Issue: Andrew
Heidinger and Amato Evan authored a section in the "State of the
Climate 2006" Issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological
Society (BAMS). The section described the anomalies in the global
cloudiness distribution for 2006 relative to the 1981 to 2005 mean and
also discusses their probable causes. The data set used for this
analysis was the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR)
Pathfinder Atmospheres Extended (PATMOS-x) climatology. PATMOS-x is a
project developed by the NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and
Research.
(A. Heidinger, E/RA2, 608-263-6757, andrew.heidinger@noaa.gov)
CIMSS Launches New Tropical Cyclones Web Site: It
has been 13 years since the original Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) Tropical Cyclones (TC) page
was made available to the public as part of satellite data/product and
hurricanes outreach. For the past six months, the CIMSS TC group
has been working on a major site upgrade, which was released to the TC
community this past week for feedback. New to the CIMSS web page is an
interactive TC window referred to as "TCTrak", that allows data and
product overlays, animation manipulation, and current satellite-based TC
intensity estimates and diagnostics. The site is still a work in
progress, but initial reaction from the community has been very
favorable. We hope to add hi-resolution MODIS, scatterometer winds (Quikscat
and Ascat), and other functionality in the very near future. The new
site is http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic2. (C. Velden, CIMSS, 608-262-9168; T. Olander, CIMSS, 608-265-8005)
ITEMS FOR THE DIVISION CHIEF, CoRP:
Seminar on AWIPS: Jordan Gerth, an undergraduate student working at the Space Science and Engineering Center/Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (SSEC/CIMSS), gave a CIMSS seminar describing his work on adding model and satellite products to the Advanced Weather Information Processing System (AWIPS). AWIPS is the primary tool used by National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters to display model output, satellite data, radar imagery, redbook graphics, and surface and upper-air observations, as well as issue text warnings and statements. However, until recently, AWIPS could not be run outside of NWS offices. After considerable effort, a fully functional version of AWIPS is running at CIMSS. Over the past year, Mr. Gerth has added satellite imagery and products to AWIPS. These real-time data are available to NWS forecasters via a Unidata Local Data Manager (LDM) feed from SSEC through the NWS regional headquarters. Forecasters have expressed positive feedback viewing MODIS products and model forecast satellite imagery from the CIMSS Regional Assimilation System (CRAS). AWIPS is a key tool in transitioning cutting-edge research into NWS operations. (M. Vasys, CIMSS, 608-263-7435)
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