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WMO SCOPE-CM Meeting: A. Heidinger attended a meeting of the Sustained, Co-Ordinated Processing of Environmental Satellite Data for Climate Monitoring (SCOPE-CM) Panel held at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, North Carolina. SCOPE-CM is run by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). A. Heidinger leads a joint NOAA/European pilot project on extracting cloud climate data records from the three decades of Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data. He presented the project's results over the past year and the team's suggested goals for the following year. (A. Heidinger, E/RA2, 608-263-6757, andrew.heidinger@noaa.gov)

AmericaView Fall Meeting Held in Madison: AmericaView, a consortium of university-led, state-based organizations that promotes and develops high-speed processing and rapid delivery of remotely sensed data to state and local users across the United States, held their annual fall technical meeting in Madison, WI, 11-13 October 2010, hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC). In the three primary topical areas (education/outreach, research, and technology), presentations and workshops were conducted; the keynote talk was by L. Gumley (SSEC) discussing MODIS (MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) now and VIIRS (Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite) for the future. In addition, there were SSEC building tours as well as a field trip day in south central Wisconsin that focused on conservation and geology. See http://www.wisconsinview.org/meetings/americaview2010/agenda.html for more information. (S. Batzli, SSEC, 608-263-3126, sabatzli@wisc.edu; G. S. Wade, E/RA2, 608-263-4743, gary.s.wade@noaa.gov; T. J. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291, tim.j.schmit@noaa.gov)

National Research Council Network Profiler Study Completed: A 8-month cost-benefit ground-based boundary layer temperature, moisture, and wind profiler study, mandated by National Research Council, was completed and submitted to the NOAA Office of Science and Technology. The report contains results from an Observation System Simulation Experiment (OSSE) of a single case study for a 06-08 January 2008 synoptic-scale extratropical cyclone using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model and the Data Assimilation Research Testbed (DART) assimilation system. Based upon this single OSSE and the costs of the various instrument systems, we feel that the results suggest that a distributed network of boundary layer profilers, where each station consists of an Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI), a microwave radiometer (MWR), and a doppler wind lidar (DWL), would be the most cost effective solution for numerical weather prediction given the bounding constraints of the report task, and would benefit other applications as well. Furthermore, these observations should prove even more valuable when performing additional tests in summertime conditions, since such mesoscale events are more sensitive to spatial variability in the low-level moisture field than the event studied in this OSSE. A National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) briefing is scheduled for 26 October 2010 and two peer reviewed papers containing results from the report have been submitted. (W. Feltz 608-265-6283, J. Otkin, R. Petersen, and D. Hartung)

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