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ASPB AND CIMSS WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING MAY 7, 2011

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GOES-R AVIATION/NOWCASTING APPLICATIONS SEMINAR at ENVIRONMENT CANADA: A seminar titled "GOES-R Overview of Aviation and Nowcasting Applications: Current Status and a Look into Future" was given by Wayne Feltz (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies) April 28-29 at Environment Canada's headquarters in Toronto (hosted by Ismail Gultepe) and at the Canadian Meteorological Centre in Montreal (hosted by Louis Garand). The presentation covered new research developments regarding the use of infrared radiances to provide information on detection of turbulence, convective initiation, convective overshooting, volcanic ash, and low cloud/fog. The seminars were very well attended and provided additional justification for Canada to continue pursuing the new Polar Communication and Weather (PCW) satellite mission, a highly elliptical orbit that would provide "pseudo-geostationary" coverage of the Arctic. (W. Feltz, CIMSS, 608-265-6283)

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Figure caption:The highly elliptical orbit that will be used by the PCW mission.

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Chicago SOS Conference: Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) Data Interpretation Specialist, Patrick Rowley, presented at the NOAA Science on a Sphere (SOS) conference in Chicago this week, highlighting progress on a CIMSS project to produce real-time weather and climate data and SOS docent support via a blog. Rowley was later joined by Margaret Mooney from CIMSS and Dan Pisut from NOAA in a break-out session collecting users feedback to advise the project moving forward. (M. Mooney, CIMSS, 608-265-2123, P. Rowley, CIMSS, 608-263-1336)

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MODIS images showing flooding at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers: Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) visible, near-IR, and true color images were posted on the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) Satellite Blog (http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/archives/7987) which showed the areal coverage of flooding across the region surrounding the confluence of the Mississippi River and the Ohio River on May 4, 2011. In addition, a comparison of MODIS true color images from May 4, 2010 and May 4, 2011 revealed dramatic changes in the Mississippi River north of Memphis, Tennessee. (S. Bachmeier, CIMSS, 608-263-3958, S. Lindstrom, CIMSS, 608-263-4425)

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Figure caption: A comparison of AWIPS images of the 1-km resolution MODIS 0.65 µm visible channel (first shown with a map overlay and location of METAR sites) and the corresponding 1-km resolution MODIS 2.1 µm near-IR “snow/ice channel” shows the areal coverage of flood waters across the region of the confluence of the Mississippi River and the Ohio River on may 4, 2011. Water appears very dark on the MODIS near-IR "snow/ice" image.

Material for the Updated COMET GOES Channel Selection Module: T. Schmit, S. Bachmeier, and M. Gunshor provided material that was incorporated into the recently updated Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education and Training (COMET) module on "Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) Channel Selection". P. Dills (COMET) was the project lead. This module covers the spectral (and other) changes on the GOES-13, -14 and -15 Imagers, along with examples of the many uses of each GOES channel. Historically, this module has been the most popular COMET module. After registering, the COMET distance learning module can be found at http://www.meted.ucar.edu/satmet/goeschan/. (T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291, tim.j.schmit@noaa.gov)

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