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ASPB AND CIMSS WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 13, 2015

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AHI Data on the CIMSS Satellite Blog: The Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA) has made available a Himawari 8 dataset that includes full-resolution Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI) data for one time (0230 UTC) on January 25, 2015. The AHI test server that is running at the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) Data Center provided imagery that was shown in a CIMSS Satellite Blog post (http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/archives/17658). Also created were a number of educational webapps demonstrating the 16 bands on the AHI (http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/webapps/bandapp/overview_ahi_first_images.html). (T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291, tim.j.schmit@noaa.gov; S. Lindstrom, CIMSS, 608-263-4425; R. Dengel, SSEC/CIMSS, 608-262-6567; J. Robaidek, SSEC/CIMSS, 608-262-6025; W. Straka III, CIMSS; R. Garcia, SSEC) 

Manuscript Assessing Sub-seasonal Drought Intensification Forecasts Published: A manuscript entitled “Using temporal changes in drought indices to generate probabilistic drought intensification forecasts” by Jason Otkin and others was published in the February issue of the Journal of Hydrometeorology. The paper showed that drought intensification forecasts derived from a Rapid Change Index (RCI) depicting how rapidly certain drought indices (including the GOES-based Evaporative Stress Index) are changing with time provide useful early warning of drought development occurring over sub-seasonal (1-2 months) time scales. (J. Otkin, CIMSS, 608-265-2476) 

WCRP Climate and Cryopsphere Steering Group Meeting: The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) project held its annual Scientific Steering Group meeting in Boulder, Colorado, February 9-12, 2015. The meeting was hosted by the National Center for Atmosphere Research (NCAR) and held at its Mesa Lab. Jeff Key attended as a representative of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Global Cryosphere Watch (GCW), and presented ideas for collaboration between CliC and GCW. Of particular interest to NESDIS is a proposal for the two groups to sponsor workshops on the intercomparison of satellite-based sea ice thickness products. (J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605, jkey@ssec.wisc.edu) 

Changing Weather and Climate in the Great Lakes Region: The Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) is collaborating with the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS) to conduct a 4-week Massive Open On-line Course (MOOC) starting February 23 on the Changing Weather and Climate in the Great Lakes Region. Along with several UW experts, the course features a guest lecture by NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) Director Dr. Louis Uccellini, an interview with National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologist Marcia Cronce, and a tour of the Milwaukee-Sullivan NWS Forecast Office. In addition, CIMSS and AOS have arranged weekly discussions at 21 libraries around Wisconsin and meteorologists from both the Green Bay and La Crosse NWS offices will be moderating discussions at their local libraries. More details and registration information can be found at http://moocs.wisc.edu/mooc/great-lakes-weather-and-climate/. (S. Ackerman, CIMSS, 608-263-3647, M. Mooney, CIMSS, 608-265-2123)


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Figure caption: Experts in the Great Lakes MOOC 

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GOES-13 Imager Co-registration: On 9 February 2015, a software change was implemented by NESDIS to better address the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-13 Imager channel-to-channel co-registration issue. Rather than a twice per day change, a more smoothly varying change is applied to the co-registration over the course of the day. This has reduced the obvious changes in brightness temperature difference fields that occurred between 0645 and 0700 and between 1645 and 1700 UTC. Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) was involved in this process with Office of Satellite and Product Operations (OSPO) over several years supplying science support. More information at http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/archives/17705. (S. Lindstrom, CIMSS, 608-263-4425; J. Nelson, CIMSS, 608-263-6013, T. Schreiner , CIMSS, 608-263-6754; M. Gunshor, CIMSS, 608-263-1146; T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291)

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