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Meeting with KMA on IDEA-I Asian Dust Forecasting Demonstration: Brad Pierce and Allen Huang (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, CIMSS) met with staff from the Korean Meteorological Administration (KMA) Korea Meteorological Satellite Center (KMSC) to provide background information on Infusing satellite Data into Environmental air quality Applications - International (IDEA-I). The concept of IDEA-I is to develop an open source, portable version a satellite based aerosol forecasting, visualization, and data synthesis tool for use by the international air quality forecasting community under the auspices of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO). The discussions focused on how STAR and CIMSS could work in partnership with KMSC to support use of IDEA-I for Asian Dust Forecasting at KMA as part of an early demonstration of IDEA-I under a full proposal to the GEO Secretariat (R.B. Pierce, E/RA2, 608-890-1892, brad.pierce@noaa.gov)GOES-14 Operational Acceptance Review: The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-14 Operational Acceptance Review (OAR) was held on December 14, 2009. T. Schmit participated as an invited panel member for the review with respect to the imager and sounder. This review was part of the GOES-14 hand-over to NOAA. (T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291, tim.j.schmit@noaa.gov)
WF_ABBA v65 Approved to Become Operational: Version 6.5 (v65) of the WildFire Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm (WF_ABBA) was approved as an operational product by the Satellite Product and Services Review Board (SPSRB) at its 16 December 2009 meeting. Developed at the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS), the WF_ABBA v65 provides several enhancements over the current WF_ABBA version 6.1 currently running in NESDIS operations, including support for a global geostationary constellation of fire detection capable satellites, specifically Meteosat-8/-9 (Met-8/-9), Multi-Functional Transport Satellite-1R (MTSAT-1R), and all Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) in operation and in storage. Support for GOES-14 is included. The new version also includes two user requested features, fire radiative power and a mask that represents, on a pixel by pixel basis, how the fire algorithm classified each pixel. The mask is an important tool for helping account for cloud coverage and other issues that may prevent fire detection, which is critical information for trend analysis and data assimilation. (C. Schmidt, CIMSS, 608-262-7973, R.B. Pierce, E/RA2, 608-890-1892, brad.pierce@noaa.gov, G. Vicente, NOAA, 301-763-8142x160, gilberto.vicente@noaa.gov, D. Xu, ESPC, 301-763-8430x190, deyong.xu@noaa.gov)
GOES-12 Sounder Filter Wheel Issue: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-12 sounder intermittent filter wheel speed variations are causing some (less than 15%) pixel dropouts. The problem is episodic and is being investigated by satellite engineers. Sounder Images and product examples can be seen at http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/archives/4133. (T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291, tim.j.schmit@noaa.gov; S. Bachmeier, CIMSS, 608-263-3958)VISITORS:
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