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NOAA Science Days Presentation on Observing Arctic Change from Space: The latest installment of NOAA Science Days was held March 10 in Silver Spring, MD. The theme was "Research in a Rapidly Changing Arctic". Jeff Key (NESDIS/STAR) was one of seven speakers from the various NOAA line offices. His presentation, titled "Observing Arctic Climate Change from Space", provided results on trends, spatial variability, and feedbacks discovered using satellite products, including some developed for JPSS and GOES-R. (J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605, jkey@ssec.wisc.edu) 

The release of the CSPP Geo GRB Version 0.1 Prototype Software Package: The University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) is pleased to announce the release of the Community Satellite Processing Package (CSPP) Geo GRB Version 0.1 Prototype software package. This is the initial release of software that will allow Direct Broadcast users to process GOES Rebroadcast (GRB) data received on their antennas from the GOES-R satellite, after it is launched in 2016. The CSPP Geo GRB software and documentation can be downloaded from http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/csppgeo/. For questions or comments, or for technical support contact csppgeo.issues@ssec.wisc.edu. (A. Huang, CIMSS, 608-263-5283) 

Positive Impact of VIIRS Winds at NRL: The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) reported that their first two weeks of using the NESDIS Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) polar winds in their operational numerical weather forecast model have been encouraging. Impacts are comparable to the five Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) polar winds products. The AVHRR winds do have the advantage of lower latency for the primary production run thanks to the direct broadcast availability from NOAA and the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS). NRL requested more direct broadcast VIIRS winds in addition to what is currently generated at two sites (Fairbanks and Sodankylä, Finland). (J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605, jkey@ssec.wisc.edu; S. Wanzong, CIMSS, 608-263-1950; D. Santek, CIMSS, 608-263-7410)

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Guest Lecture at UW-Madison AOS Senior Capstone Seminar : Brad Pierce gave a guest lecture entitled "Using VIIRS DNB and OMI NO2 retrievals for constraining NOx Emissions" at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS) Senior Capstone Seminar Series. This lecture discussed the use of low light radiance measurements from the Visible/Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), Day/Night Band (DNB)instrument on the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP)and NASA Aura Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) nitrogen dioxide (NO2) column retrievals to constrain nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions for air quality modeling. The AOS Senior Capstone Seminar is a required senior seminar for AOS majors and provides a synthesis and overview of current atmospheric science research (R.B. Pierce, E/RA2, 608-890-1892, brad.pierce@noaa.gov)

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