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ASPB AND CIMSS WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING APRIL 20, 2012

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ITEMS FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR:

ITEMS FOR THE ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR:

ITEMS FOR THE OFFICE DIRECTOR, STAR:

ITEMS FOR THE DIVISION CHIEF, CoRP:

CREST PhD Committee: Andrew Heidinger served on the PhD committee of Julia He of the City College of New York (CCNY) in New York City. Her adviser (Prof. Barry Gross) participates in the NOAA Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology Center (CREST). Her defense took place on April 20, 2012. Her thesis title is "Remote Sensing of Aerosol and Cloud Properties from Ground Based and Satellite Remote Sensors to Explore Aerosol-Cloud Interaction". Julia visited the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) three times during her studies. (A. Heidinger, 608-263-6757, Andrew.Heidinger@noaa.gov )

JPSS Cal/Val Team Meeting: Andrew Heidinger, Jeff Key (NESDIS/STAR), and Yinghui Liu (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, CIMSS) attended a meeting of the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) calibration/validation ("cal/val") teams, April 16-19, 2012, in Greenbelt, MD. The first two days of the meeting were devoted to presentations by the cal/val teams on their validation activities. On the third day, Northrop Grumman staff held tutorial sessions with a few of the algorithm teams. (J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605, jkey@ssec.wisc.edu ; A. Heidinger, E/RA2, 608-263-6757, andrew.heidinger@noaa.gov; Y. Liu, CIMSS, 608-265-8620)

Satellite Images of Central US Severe Weather Outbreak: The Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) Satellite Blog was updated with a post containing a variety of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES), Polar Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), and Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) images from the large outbreak of severe weather that occurred across the much of the central United States on April 14-15, 2012 (http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/archives/10166). The higher spatial resolution MODIS, AVHRR, and VIIRS InfraRed (IR) images showed striking details associated with overshooting top, cold/warm thermal couplet, and enhanced-V storm top signatures. (S. Bachmeier, CIMSS, 608- 263-3958)

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Figure caption: 375-meter resolution Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.450 μm IR image showing severe thunderstorms in the Dodge City, Kansas (KDDC) area on April 14, 2012. Two of the storms exhibited well-defined enhanced-V signatures, which often indicates that a thunderstorm has a high probability of producing tornadoes, large hail, or damaging winds.

Manuscript on Transported Background Pollutants Submitted: A manuscript entitled “Impacts of transported background pollutants on summertime western US air quality: model evaluation, sensitivity analysis and data assimilation” by M. H. Huang, G. R. C. Carmichael, T. C. Chai, R. B. P. Pierce, S. J. O. Oltmans, D. A. J. Jaffe, K. W. B. Bowman, A. K. Kaduwela, C. C. Cai, A. J. W. Weinheimer, L. G. H. Huey, and G. S. D. Diskin was submitted to Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP). The manuscript evaluates the impacts of transported background pollutants on western US ozone distributions using the regional scale Sulfur Transport and dEposition Model (STEM) with chemical lateral boundary conditions from the Real-time Air Quality Modeling System (RAQMS) real-time chemical analyses (R.B. Pierce, E/RA2, 608-890-1892, brad.pierce@noaa.gov )

VISITORS:

NOAA NWS Milwaukee-Sullivan Visit: Stephen Brueske (MKX MIC), Jeff Craven (MKX SOO), and Mark Gehring (MKX forecaster) visited the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) on April 20, 2012 to discuss Wisconsin climatology and GOES-R Proving Ground plans for 2012. Jeff was briefed on improvements in satellite-based convective cloud growth detection, low cloud fog monitoring, and GOES-R related updates. He also exchanged information on possible new areas of satellite-based proving ground activities during summer and fall 2012 timeframe. (W. Feltz, CIMSS, 608-265-6283 and T. Schmit, E/RA2)

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