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CIMSS AND ASPB WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 5, 2016

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GOES-14 Imager and Sounder Data: The first week of the 2016 Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-14 Super Rapid Scan Operations for GOES-R (SRSOR) imagery data collection campaign has been completed, which captured many interesting cases, including convective snow, severe thunderstorms, wildfires, blowing dust and gravity waves. These 1-minute data are being used to better prepare for the mesoscale mode on the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI). More information on the daily schedules and image center points is available at http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/srsor2016/GOES-14_SRSOR.html. Animations, including CIMSS Satellite Blog entries, are available at http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/archives/category/goes-14. The GOES-14 Sounder is also operating in the routine scan mode. Imagery and derived products (clouds, moisture and stability parameters) from the sounder can be found at http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/rt/sounder-dpi.php. (T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291, tim.j.schmit@noaa.gov; S. Bachmeier, CIMSS, 608-263-3958; Jim Nelson, CIMSS, S. Lindstrom, CIMSS) 

ITEMS FOR THE DIVISION CHIEF, CoRP:

Alaska Morphed Composite Cloud Products is Online: The online diagnostic viewer for the Alaska Cloud Product morphed composite is online. This is a major milestone of the PSDI project "Cloud Product Updates for NCEP and NWS-Alaska." The composite product uses real-time image morphing algorithms to create a seamless blend of polar-orbiter and geostationary retrievals by CLAVR-x (Clouds from AVHRR Extended) at 30-minute resolution up to the present time. The product can be viewed at http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/acp. (A. Wimmers, CIMSS, 608-263-3294, A. Heidinger, 608-263-3757)

True Color Imagery from Japan's AHI: An improved version of the Simple Hybrid Contrast Stretch (SHCS) algorithm for generating true color imagery from Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI) data has been developed and delivered to the NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory. They were able to successfully run the code and are in the process of posting these to the web. The main change to this second version is that the color components to the Red-Green-Blue composite are stretched on both the light and dark ends. Mr. Yasuhiko Sumida, from the Meteorological Satellite Center of the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), has been developing this algorithm. He is a Visiting Scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS). (T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291, tim.j.schmit@noaa.gov; Y. Sumida, JMA)

GOES-14 SRSOR Realtime Mesoscale Winds: With the start of GOES-14 Super Rapid Scan Operations for GOES-R (SRSOR) operations, an analysis of mesoscale winds is being produced at 10-minute intervals with the atmospheric motion vector (AMV) algorithm developed at the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS). This project is in collaboration with the National Severe Storms Lab (Bob Rabin). Imagery is available at http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~rabin/winds/srsor/srsor1.html. Work is progressing on disseminating the wind product for evaluation and viewing in AWIPS2 workstations at NWS forecast offices and at the Hazardous Weather Testbed in Norman, OK. (R. Rabin, NOAA/NSSL and CIMSS, 608-264-5325/405-366-0583)

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