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IN THE PRESS:
ITEMS FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR:
ITEMS FOR THE ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR:
ITEMS FOR THE OFFICE DIRECTOR, STAR:
Rick Kohrs a winner in UW’s 2013 Cool Science Image Contest: Rick
Kohrs is one of the winners in the University of Wisconsin's 2013 Cool
Science Image Contest. The image he made is a composite of several
satellite observations on October 28, 2012 and includes observations
from various water vapor channel and sea surface temperature. For
information is available at
http://www.news.wisc.edu/slideshows/coolscience2013/4.
(S. Ackerman, CIMSS, 608-263-3647)
(Click image to enlarge)
Figure caption: This image from October 28, 2012 shows the amount of
water vapor in the atmosphere and the sea surface temperature. Super
storm Sandy can be seen off the East coast of the United States as she
strengthened due to the warm waters of the Gulf Stream. Moist air rises
over warm water, seen in orange and red, and provides the fuel necessary
to strengthen tropical storms. As storms pass over colder waters, seen
in blues and greens, tropical storms begin to weaken due to the lack of
energy-laden moist air rising from the sea surface.
Rick Kohrs, staff, Space Science and Engineering Center
CIMSS participates in UW Day at the Wisconsin State Capitol: The
Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS)
organized and staffed a booth at the first annual UW (University of
Wisconsin) Day at the State Capitol on April 4, 2013 to showcase some of
the science that takes place at the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space
Science building where CIMSS is housed. Along with discussions with a
dozen or so legislators, more than a hundred students and private
citizens stopped by the booth during the four hour event. Even Bucky
Badger, the Wisconsin mascot, stopped by! While the tried and true CIMSS
weather applets and new EarthNow products (http://sphere.ssec.wisc.edu/)
were very popular with visitors, genuine amazement was sparked during
discussions around the poster take-away depicting Hurricane Sandy
merging with a cold front captured under moonlight by the VIIRS (visible
infrared imager radiometer suite) instrument on the Suomi National
Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite. (M. Mooney, CIMSS,
608-265-2123, P. Rowley, CIMSS, 608 263-1336)
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Figure caption: Bucky Badger holding a Suomi NPP satellite image.
ITEMS FOR THE DIVISION CHIEF, CoRP:
CIMSS VISIT Activities: S. Lindstrom led the Virtual Institute for Satellite Integration Training (VISIT) lesson "Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-R Fog/Low Stratus (FLS) products" on April 2, with staff from the National Weather Service forecast office at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania participating in the training. In addition, the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) Satellite Blog (http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog) was updated with posts on the following topics: "53rd anniversary of the first image from a meteorological satellite", "The Bakken oil shale region: at night, and during the day", "Mesoscale Convective System in the Gulf of Mexico", and "Mesospheric airglow waves". (S. Lindstrom, CIMSS, 263-4425, S. Bachmeier, CIMSS, 608-263-3958)
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Figure caption: Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 µm Day/Night Band image showing a series of concentric mesospheric airglow waves propagating northeastward away from the core of an intense mesoscale convective system in the Gulf of Mexico on April 5, 2013.
JPSS Annual Product Review Meeting: The JPSS VIIRS (visible infrared imager radiometer suite) Cryosphere Team participated in the JPSS Annual Program Environmental Data Record (EDR) Review on 26 March 2013. J. Key presented the team’s accomplishments, issues, level of effort, and budget. Other teams that participated included Aerosols, Sea Surface Temperature, Ocean Color, Land, Sounding, and Ozone. (J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605, jkey@ssec.wisc.edu)
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