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ASPB AND CIMSS WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING MAY 14, 2011
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Webinar for Storm Spotters: Climate Change, Mitigation & Mobile Apps: National
Weather Service (NWS) Storm Spotters were invited to a web seminar on
Tuesday May 10 presented by Steve Ackerman and Margaret Mooney from the
Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS). The
topics were climate change, climate mitigation, and emerging
applications to monitor weather and climate using mobile devices. CIMSS
hopes to leverage the wealth of human capital cultivated by the NWS with
storm spotters’ history of community service and passion for weather to
cultivate a similar mitigation and stewardship response to climate
change. CIMSS would like to thank Rusty Kapela, Warning Coordination
Meteorologist from Milwaukee/Sullivan for helping to recruit spotters
and Erin Robinson from the Federation of Earth Science Information
Partners (ESIP) for hosting and recording the webinar which is available
for viewing at http://vimeo.com/23571211.
(M. Mooney, CIMSS/SSEC, 608-265-2123)
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11th AMS Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography: Y. Liu (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, CIMSS) and M. Lazzara (Space Science and Engineering Center) attended the 11th American Meteorological Society (AMS) conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography held in Boston, MA, May 2-5, 2001. Liu gave presentation titled "Feedback of Arctic Cloud-Sea Ice from Observations" with co-authors Jeff Key (STAR/ASPB) and X. Wang (CIMSS). This presentation showed that positive cloud amount anomalies correspond to the newly opened water in the Arctic, particularly in autumn. Lazzara gave presentation on polar satellite composite Atmospheric Motion Vectors (AMV). The AMV presentation is available at http://ams.confex.com/ams/11Polar/flvgateway.cgi/id/17981?recordingid=17981.
(Y. Liu, CIMSS, 608-265-8620; M. Lazzara, SSEC/CIMSS, 608-262-0436)
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Figure caption: A sample Arctic composite image with atmospheric motion vectors plotted from 14 UTC on 26 April 2011.
GOES-R AWG Validation Workshop: Many scientists from the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) and Advanced Satellite Products Branch (ASPB) participated remotely in the 2011 Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-R Algorithm Working Group (AWG) Validation Workshop that was held May 10-11, 2011. One meeting goal was to provide an overview of the product teams validation activities and tools. Presentations on topics from CIMSS/ASPB included: imagery, clear-sky mask, soundings, clouds, volcanic ash, hurricane intensity, hot spot characterization, GOES-R Analysis Facility for Instrument Impacts on Requirements (GRAFIIR), and Man computer Interactive Data Access System (McIDAS)-V. The presentations are available at http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goesr/vtools_ws_May2011.php. (T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291, tim.j.schmit@noaa.gov; A. Heidinger, E/RA2, 608-263-6757, andrew.heidinger@noaa.gov; M. Pavolonis, E/RA2, 608-263-9597, mpav@ssec.wisc.edu)
Evaluating GOES-based Convective Initiation products: Started on 9 May 2011 and running for five weeks, two versions of Convective Initiation (CI) derived from Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) are being provided to the National Weather Service (NWS) Storm Prediction Center (SPC) in Norman, OK as part of the Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT) GOES-R Proving Ground effort. These CI products, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) and the University of Alabama-Huntsville (UAH), are being captured by V. Laksmanan (Oklahoma University) and will be statistically analyzed to provide objective comparisons for the purpose of helping to select the algorithm to be moved forward in transition from research into NESDIS operations, and thus to NWS forecasters. Realtime examples of both CI products at the HWT are available at http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/snaap/convinit/quicklooks/index.php?action=view_panel®ion=east&datetime=LATEST&products=accumci, and http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/~garyw/goes-ci/SATCAST2-RT/flanis-SATCAST2.html; current HWT activities are described at http://goesrhwt.blogspot.com/. (G. S. Wade, E/RA2, 608-263-4743, gary.s.wade@noaa.gov; W. Feltz, UW-CIMSS, 608-265-6283, wayne.feltz@ssec.wisc.edu; J. Walker, UAH, 256-961-7769, jwalker@nsstc.uah.edu; V. Lakshmanan, OU-CIMMS-NSSL, 405-325-6569, valliappa.lakshmanan@noaa.gov)
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