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ASPB AND CIMSS WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

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NOAA Sea Ice Forecasting Workshop: The second NOAA Sea Ice Forecasting Workshop was held in Anchorage, Alaska, 19-21 September 2011. It was hosted by the Anchorage National Weather Service (NWS) office. The purpose of the workshop was to set the stage for the creation of a NOAA Implementation Plan for Sea Ice Forecasting, one of the six goals of NOAA’s Arctic Vision and Strategy. An implementation plan is needed to demonstrate readiness should funds become available, and to identify means of improving sea ice forecasting capabilities within the existing budget. The outcome of the workshop will be the starting point for preparation of the implementation plan, which will be completed in the latter half of 2012. J. Key attended and led a breakout session on satellite products relevant to sea ice forecasting. (J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605, jkey@ssec.wisc.edu)

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GOES-R Science Week Meeting: Wayne Feltz (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, CIMSS), Jun Li (CIMSS), and Mike Pavolonis (Advanced Satellite Products Branch, ASPB) attended the next generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) Science Week Meeting at the National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC) in Huntsville, AL. Additional scientists from CIMSS and ASPB participated remotely. The Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) Annual Science Meeting and the GOES-R Risk Reduction Annual Meeting were held during GOES-R Science Week. The main goals of the meetings were to discuss GLM and GOES-R Risk Reduction research progress, research priorities, and end user engagement. ASPB and CIMSS scientists gave talks on atmospheric motion vectors, volcanic clouds, calibration, hurricane data assimilation studies, training/outreach, nearcasting of atmospheric stability, and the fifth generation Man Computer Interactive Data Access System (McIDAS-V). In addition, Steve Ackerman (CIMSS) and Tom Achtor (CIMSS) participated in the cooperative institute directors panel on current and future directions of the GOES-R Risk Reduction program. (M. Pavolonis, E/RA2, 608-263-9597, Mike.Pavolonis@noaa.gov, W. Feltz, CIMSS, 608-265-6283, J. Li, CIMSS, 608-262-3755, S. Ackerman, CIMSS, T. Achtor, CIMSS, 608-263-4206)

GOES-15 and GOES-11 Imagery of Hurricane Hilary: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-15 and GOES-11 Super Rapid Scan Operations (SRSO) visible channel images showing the well-defined eye of Category 4 Hurricane Hilary were posted on the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) Satellite Blog (http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/archives/8898). GOES-15 is scheduled to replace GOES-11 as the operational GOES-West satellite in December 2011, and the GOES-11 SRSO imagery demonstrated the capability of a more frequent image scanning schedule that will be available with the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) instrument on the next-generation GOES-R satellite. (S. Bachmeier, CIMSS, 608-263-3958).

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