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ASPB AND CIMSS WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING MAY 26, 2012
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NOAA Fact Sheet on Hurricanes and Climate Updated: The NOAA State of the Science Fact Sheet on Hurricanes and Climate has been updated and is now available on the NOAA Research Council website (http://nrc.noaa.gov/stateofsciencefactsheets.html). The document is the result of a collaboration between Jim Kossin (NCDC/RSAD) and four other NOAA scientists from the Geophysical and Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), Climate Prediction Center (CPC), National Hurricane Center (NHC), and Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML). (J. Kossin, NCDC/RSAD, 608-265-5356)
Presentation on GOES-R Imagery to the Korean Delegation to STAR: T. Schmit gave a remote presentation on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-R Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Cloud and Moisture Imagery Algorithm to the STAR and Korea Meteorological Agency/National Meteorological Satellite Center (KMA/NMSC) Technical Working Group on Satellite Applications and Research. The presentations are available at ftp://ftp.ssec.wisc.edu/ABI/22MAY2012. (T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291, tim.j.schmit@noaa.gov)
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Figure caption: Simulated images of the 16 visible, near-infrared and infrared bands of the ABI on GOES-R.
Presentation on IR High Spectral Resolution Applications: On May 23, 2012, T. Schmit gave a presentation to the 16th International Workshop on Atmospheric Science from Space using Fourier Transform Spectrometry that was held in Madison, Wisconsin. The presentation was entitled “High-Spectral Resolution Infrared (IR) Observations for Weather-related Applications”. It is available at ftp://ftp.ssec.wisc.edu/ABI/23MAY2012/Schmit_Wx_FTS_23MAY2012.pptx. More on the meeting can be found at: http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/assfts/ (T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291, tim.j.schmit@noaa.gov; J. Li, CIMSS, 608-262-3755)
Continued Success at SPC's 2012 Hazardous Weather Testbed: For the past three weeks, scientists from Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) have been participating in the Storm Prediction Center's (SPC) Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT) in Norman, OK. This experiment provides a platform for experimental products from research to be used and evaluated by members of the National Weather Service (NWS) forecasting community within NOAA. CIMSS research scientist Lee Cronce attended the HWT this week in support of his research group's University of Wisconsin (UW) Cloud Top Cooling (UW-CTC) product. This particular product continues to receive positive reviews throughout this ongoing HWT experimental period. Many NWS forecasters are requesting local feeds to their respective Weather Forecast Offices. As an example of the utility of the UW-Cloud Top Cooling product in warning situations, forecasters were able to issue experimental warnings based on knowledge of the environmental conditions and firm understanding of the UW-Cloud Top Cooling product. These experimental warnings consistently provided many more minutes of lead time over the conventional radar-based warning methods. Please view the associated image for a graphical representation of one of the experimental warnings based on the UW-Cloud Top Cooling product.
(L. Cronce, CIMSS, 608-265-6282)
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Figure caption: Example of warning issuance based upon UW-Cloud Top Cooling product (upper right panel).
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