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Former CIMSS Student Wins AMS Best Presentation Award: Jordan Gerth, a former graduate student and current postdoctoral scholar affiliated with the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS), won the Best Student Presentation Award for his talk "Sky Cover: Shining Light on a Gloomy Problem" that was presented at the Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems. The February 2014 symposium was in conjunction with the American Meteorological Society (AMS) annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. The AMS notified recipients in July 2014. His winning talk summarized his Ph.D. dissertation research. (J. Gerth, CIMSS, 608-263-4942) 

New WebApps explore effects of time and space on satellite imagery: Scientists from the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) and the NESDIS Advanced Satellite Products Branch (ASPB) have teamed up to develop a new series of educational WebApps. The applications (http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/applets/overview.html) allow one to explore the effects of both time and spatial resolutions on satellite image interpretation. The user can change the 'sampling rate' of the animation, as well as the 'pixel size'. The phenomena available for exploration include: hurricanes, convection, fires, clouds, pyrocumulus, and smoke. These WebApps use special high-time resolution Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-14) Imager data (http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/srsor2014/GOES-14_SRSOR.html) which was operated in a mode to emulate the improved temporal resolution possible on the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI), that is scheduled to fly on GOES-R. (T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291, tim.j.schmit@noaa.gov) 

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Figure caption: Front page of the Education WebApp on exploring the effects of time and spatial resolutions.

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SnowPEX Snow Product Intercomparison Workshop: J. Key participated in the first International Satellite Snow Product Intercomparison and Evaluation Experiment Workshop (SnowPEX) in College Park, MD, July 21-23, 2014. SnowPEX is an international collaborative effort, funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), aiming to intercompare and evaluate satellite-based seasonal snow cover products of hemispheric to global extent in order to assess their accuracy, resolve possible discrepancies and elaborate guidelines for further improvement. The workshop was hosted by NOAA. The SnowPEX project is an extension of the "Snow Watch" intercomparison project initiated by the World Meteorological Organization's Global Cryosphere Watch (GCW) in 2013. (J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605, jkey@ssec.wisc.edu) 

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