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CIMSS AND ASPB WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING JANUARY 22, 2016

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CIMSS, ASPB, and SSEC Participation at the 2016 AMS Annual Meeting: Representatives from the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS), Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC), and the NOAA Advanced Satellite Products Branch (ASPB) participated in the 96th Annual American Meteorological Society (AMS) meeting held the week of January 10th, 2016 in New Orleans, LA. A GOES-R/JPSS Short Course was conducted on Sunday January 10 (http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/news/articles/8388). There were over 60 oral presentations and posters as part of the Student Conference, 30th Conference on Hydrology, Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface, 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, 25th Symposium on Education, 20th Conference on IOAS-AOLS, 12th Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems, 23rd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, Advances in Using Python in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 32nd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies, Conference on Transition of Research to Operations, 19th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International, 6th Conference on Transition of Research to Operation, Conference on Hydrology, and Visualization Techniques for Climatology and Meteorology, Special Symposium on Hurricane Katrina. The presentations and posters are listed at http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/education/UW-AMS-2016. Many participated in side meetings on a host of topics. SSEC also was present at an AMS exhibit booth highlighting advances with McIDAS-V display and SSEC RealEarth software. Selected ‘one-page’ summaries of NOAA funded presentations will be posted at http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/star/meetings.php; they are currently available at ftp://ftp.ssec.wisc.edu/validation/conferences/ams_2016/STAR_Science_Forum-AMS_2016-UW_Madison_CIMSS.pptx. Tim Schmit (ASPB) was co-chair of a session and the short course, student presentation judge, and mentor. (W. Feltz, CIMSS/SSEC, 608-265-6283; T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291, tim.j.schmit@noaa.gov)

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Figure caption: UW-Madison SSEC/CIMSS Exhibit Booth

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Figure caption: T. Schmit presenting at the NOAA booth at the AMS conference. Photo credit: Mat Gunshor.

CIMSS Supports ABI FM4 Deviation Request: The Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) responded to a request from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-R Product Working Group (PWG) to investigate the spectral response function (SRF) for band 13, nominally the 10.35 micrometer channel of the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Flight Model 4 (FM4). The FM4 band 13 SRF was slightly outside the specified envelope. Analysis by the GOES-R Algorithm Working Group (AWG) waiver response team at CIMSS was sent to the PWG with the results showing a calculated 0.001K difference between the FM4 response and a specifications compliant response for a standard atmosphere. There is a 0.04 K calculated difference between FM4 and FM1, which is smaller than the specified noise for this band. (M. Gunshor, CIMSS, 608-263-1146, matg@ssec.wisc.edu, T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291, tim.j.schmit@noaa.gov)

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