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ASPB AND CIMSS WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING JUNE 20, 2009

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GOES-R Proving Ground Convective Initiation News Release: The University of Wisconsin-Madison published a news release about the demonstration of a new Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) imager convective initiation detection methodology and its evaluation at the Storm Prediction Center Hazardous Weather Testbed (SPC HWT) in May 2009. The methodology was developed under GIMPAP funding and demonstrated with GOES-R Proving Ground resources. SPC forecasters have found the product to be a useful satellite CI signal prior to reflectivity detection on radar by up to 45 minutes. The press release can be found at http://www.news.wisc.edu/releases/15351. UW-CIMSS has been contacted by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Puerto Rico weather radio program for interviews. (W. Feltz, CIMSS, 608-265-6282)

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AVHRR Cloud Climate Project Accepted by WMO Panel: The executive panel of the World Meteorological Organization's Sustained Coordinated Processing of Environmental Satellite Data for Climate Monitoring (SCOPE-CM) initiative has accepted an Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) cloud climatology project coordinated by Andrew Heidinger. A total of five initial projects were accepted into the SCOPE-CM initiative. The AVHRR cloud project also involves several European scientists. (A. Heidinger, E/RA2, 608-263-6757)

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CI Directors Meeting: Steve Ackerman, Tom Achtor and Wenhua Wu attended the NESDIS Cooperative Institute (CI) Director’s and Administrators meeting at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) in Fort Collins, CO. The meeting took place on June 16 and 17. Discussion topics included Collaborative Training Efforts, activities at the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, the CI re-competition experience of CIRA and CICS, the GOES-R Satellite Proving Ground and the proposed Satellite Algorithm Test Bed. (S. Ackerman, CIMSS, 608-263-3647)

McIDAS-V Training: T. Schmit and G. Wade, Advanced Satellite Products Branch (ASPB), attended the Man computer Interactive Data Access System (McIDAS)-V hands-on training sessions in Madison, WI on June 16-18. McIDAS-V is the latest development in the evolution of McIDAS, focusing on interactive, flexible, and powerful visualization of meteorological data and emphasizing satellite data of varied spectral, temporal, and spatial dimension. Many topics were presented, including the reading of data of many different types, and their subsequent manipulation and analysis. In addition, the use of formulas and scripting was also covered. More information can be found at: http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/mcidas/software/v/ . (T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291, tim.j.schmit@noaa.gov; G. S. Wade, E/RA2, 608-263-4743, gary.s.wade@noaa.gov)

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