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ASPB AND CIMSS WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING JANUARY 13, 2017

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Media Coverage: Further media coverage related to the publication of the paper by Kossin, J. P., 2016, "Hurricane intensification along United States coast suppressed during active hurricane periods" (Nature, doi:10.1038/nature20783) includes news articles in the Palm Beach Post, Gizmodo, Insurance Insider, the Forester Daily News, and the US CLIVAR research highlights, and a video interview with CBS12 in Miami, FL. See http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/weather/study-climatic-quirk-protects-florida-coast-busy-storm-seasons/4NxxUfMiWN2Y3nsZUGq14N/, http://gizmodo.com/how-the-east-coast-avoids-dangerous-hurricanes-1790821724, http://www.insuranceinsider.com/hurricane-research-suggests-us-coastal-storm-buffer, http://foresternetwork.com/daily/water/stormwater/mend-the-roof-while-the-sun-is-shining/, https://usclivar.org/research-highlights/hurricanes-more-likely-weaken-along-us-coast-during-active-periods, and http://cbs12.com/news/local/hurricane-drought-clue-uncovered. (J. Kossin, NCEI/CWC, 608-265-5356)

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PACE Cloud Height Science Team Presentation: Andrew Heidinger developed a presentation for the cloud height retrievals for the NASA Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission. PACE is a mission under development. Andrew Heidinger is a member of PACE Cloud Team led by Steve Platnick of NASA. Steve Platnick will present this material next week. The PACE imager provides only solar reflectance channels. Several of these channels are in water vapor and oxygen absorption bands. These absorption provide cloud height sensitivity that is exploited in the PACE cloud height retrieval. The goal of this analysis to justify and optimize the channels in the final PACE imager design. Participation in this mission benefits NOAA by allowing NOAA scientists to be exposed to data and techniques that fall outside NOAA's operational capabilities. (A. Heidinger, E/RA2, 608-263-6757, andrew.heidinger@noaa.gov)

Presentation on GOES-R given at Environment Canada and McGill University: Bob Rabin (NOAA/NSSL) gave a seminar at McGill University and at the Canadian Meteorological Centre (CMC), Environment Canada (EC), Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He also attended a meeting with the GOES-R readiness team of Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) and the Canadian Meteorological Centre (CMC) which discussed implementation plans to acquire and process GOES-R data for display into forecast operations. The title of the seminar is "A new era in monitoring weather events from geostationary satellite with GOES-R". The presentation abstract is: "A new series of geostationary satellites, beginning with the launch of GOES-R (now GOES-16) in November 2016, will bring new capabilities to monitor clouds, lightning, and properties of the earth and ocean surface with enhanced temporal and spatial resolution. This presentation will highlight some of these capabilities with examples of satellite imagery observed at 1-minute intervals from GOES-14. This satellite collected data at 1-minute intervals in the "Super Rapid Scan Operation for GOES-R" (SRSOR) mode" during select periods in 2013-2016. This enabled testing the value of simultaneous high temporal observations from satellite, radar, and ground-based lightning sensors in monitoring convective storms, winter weather, and fires. Available scanning modes and derived products from the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) aboard the new satellite will be reviewed." (R. Rabin, NOAA/NSSL and CIMSS, 608-264-5325/405-366-0583) 

Satellite Imagery of Heavy Snowfall Event in Portland, Oregon Area: Satellite images documenting a heavy snowfall event in the Portland, Oregon area on December 10-11, 2017 were posted on the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) Satellite Blog (http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/archives/22965). (S. Bachmeier, CIMSS, 608-263-3958)

CIMSS Awards for Proxy Data Team: On January 10, 2017 the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) held a reception honoring Tom Greenwald, Allen Huang, Allen Lenzen, Todd Schaack, Matt Gunshor, Jason Otkin, Marek Rogal, and Kaba Bah for their efforts in support of the GOES-R Algorithm Working Group (AWG) Proxy data team. They received CIMSS Recognition Certificates for developing the capability to generate real-time GOES-R ABI proxy data for use in the GOES-R Ground segment testing. (R.B. Pierce, E/RA2, 608-890-1892, brad.pierce@ssec.wisc.edu)

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Figure caption: Paul Menzel and Brad Pierce congratulate two of the eight CIMSS scientists receiving awards. Left: Allen Huang; right: Kaba Bah.

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