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ASPB AND CIMSS WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 17, 2017

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SSEC and CIMSS Scientists in the News: Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) and the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) provide expert commentary, interviews, and imagery to news media. This week, UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s office picked up a recent story about SSEC’s prominent role in weather forecasting and distributed it to her audiences. It features ASPB scientist Tim Schmit: "If you checked the weather today, thank UW" (video): http://go.wisc.edu/5191f8. (J. Phillips, SSEC, 608-262-8164)

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Figure caption: ASPB scientist Tim Schmit. 

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Fred Wu and Tim Schmit Received the NOAA Administrator's Award: Tim Schmit (STAR/ASPB) and Xiangqian (Fred) Wu (STAR) received a 2017 NOAA Administrator’s Award. The Administrator's Award recognizes employees who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, skill, and ingenuity in their contributions to NOAA, the Department of Commerce, and the Federal Government. The citation reads "For exemplary leadership during the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 16 post launch testing to deliver critical Advanced Baseline Imager [ABI] products to Beta [and Provisional] maturity for broad use." The ceremony was held in Silver Spring, MD. (T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291)

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Figure caption: Fred Wu and Tim Schmit received the 2017 NOAA Administrator's Award. (Photo credit: Hong Wu)

NOAA-JAXA AMSR2 Technical Exchange Meeting in Tokyo: A team of NESDIS technical leads for the NOAA GCOM-W1 Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) project met with their JAXA counterparts in Tokyo, Japan to exchange information on the current status of product suites and data deliveries to end users. The group previously met three years ago, also in Tokyo. The NESDIS team included P. Chang, R. Ferraro, J. Key, and X. Zhan (STAR), S. Walters (JPSS), J. Clapp (IIA), Z. Jelenak, and J. Sapp (STAR scientific support team). There were 17 participants from Japan. After extensive discussions on algorithms and products, potential AMSR2 follow-on missions were presented. For the most part, both agencies are generating a comparable suite of products, although using slightly different retrieval approaches. Both JAXA and NOAA report that they are meeting mission requirements. Additionally, both groups are developing and testing new products (e.g., sea-ice motion, all weather ocean surface wind speeds) that could work their way into operations within the next year or two. (J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605, jkey@ssec.wisc.edu)

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Demonstration of GOES-16 Data via the SSEC RealEarth web map server: Russell Dengel demonstrated how to access GOES-16 data via the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) RealEarth web map server on November 15, 2017 in a webinar series hosted by the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Education Committee. RealEarth (https://realearth.ssec.wisc.edu/) collects, displays, and animates over 600 satellite, weather, and earth science products in real time. The 12-minute presentation highlighting GOES-16 Advanced Baseline Imager data is available on-line at https://youtu.be/lqTzXbJoQ84. (R. Dengel, SSEC (608) 262-6567, M. Mooney, CIMSS (608) 265-2123)

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