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ASPB AND CIMSS WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 1, 2013

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Support for GOES-R ABI video Produced by NASA Goddard: ASPB (Advanced Satellite Products Branch) and CIMSS (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies) personnel supplied a number of graphics and animations that were used as part of a NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Goddard 3-minute video on the GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite)-R ABI (Advanced Baseline Imager). The video is titled "The Future of Weather Monitoring". Inputs from ASPB or CIMSS include 16 panel ABI images, side-by-side animations, simulated ABI atmospheric motion vectors, MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) and GOES comparisons, animations of smoke, convection over Wisconsin and Alabama and Hurricane Sandy. The video can be found at http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/primary-goes-r-instrument-ready-to-be-installed-onto-spacecraft/#.UnK7Svnkt8E. (T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291) 

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Figure caption: Screen shot from the GOES-R ABI video of the simulated ABI bands image generated by the CIMSS. 

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Fog/Low Stratus Blog Entries and Interactions with Affected WFOs:  Two GOES-R Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) Probability Blog posts were produced for the 'fog blog': (http://fusedfog.ssec.wisc.edu). These were a post that discussed fog/low stratus detection over OK/TX under high clouds (http://fusedfog.ssec.wisc.edu/?p=671) and a post that discussed fog/low stratus detection under a developing extratropical cyclone over the central Plains (http://fusedfog.ssec.wisc.edu/?p=677). In both cases, the traditional brightness temperature difference method of fog detection failed because of high clouds, but the GOES-R IFR Probability fields gave useful information. Emails to the SOOs at Tulsa and Fort Worth (for the first blog post) and Omaha and North Platte (for the second blog post) alerted the WFOs affected of the blog discussion. (M. Pavolonis, E/RA2, 608-263-9597, mpav@ssec.wisc.edu; S. Lindstrom, CIMSS, 608-263-4425, scottl@ssec.wisc.edu ; S. Bachmeier, CIMSS, 608-263-3958)

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