CIMSS-NOAA Weekly Report [ Archive ]

ASPB AND CIMSS WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING MARCH 30, 2018

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ITEMS FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR:

ITEMS FOR THE ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR:

ITEMS FOR THE OFFICE DIRECTOR, STAR:

CIMSS Satellite Blog and the Recent Nor'easters: A 4-week Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-16 Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) animation of CIMSS Natural Color (Daytime) and Blended Shortwave/Longwave Infrared (Nighttime) that shows four nor'easters over the western Atlantic and adjacent Continent during that time was created and placed on the CIMSS Satellite Blog (http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/archives/27552). This animation was widely shared - with over 200 re-tweets - on Social Media, including from NOAA Satellites. (S. Lindstrom, CIMSS; T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291)

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Figure caption: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-16 Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) CIMSS Natural Color image from March 22, 2018. 

The Near-Real-Time CrIS-based DCC Monitoring of VIIRS RSBs is Online: As uniform and stable objects, deep convective clouds (DCCs) are often used to monitor the radiometric stability of VIIRS reflective solar bands (RSBs) and Day-Night-Band (DNB). Usually DCC subjects are identified by VIIRS 11 µm band brightness temperature (BT11). CrIS has better performance of DCC identification than VIIRS with the brightness temperature difference (BTD) between its stronger and weaker water vapor absorption channels. By combining the collocated CrIS BTD and measurement noise ratio (BNR), new methods and technical approaches using DCC detected by collocated CrIS measurements for monitoring VIIRS RSB calibrations are developed. The near real-time CrIS-based DCC monitoring of VIIRS RSBs is now online at  http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/dcc. This website shows the time series of daily and weekly reflectances, along with the mean and mode, their standard deviations (STD) and ranges (maximum-minimum), which is supplemental to STAR VIIRS monitoring with monthly time series. (Jun Li, 608-262-3755, Jun.Li@ssec.wisc.edu; Zhenglong Li, Zhenglong.Li@ssec.wisc.edu; and Chris C. Moeller, Chris.Moeller@ssec.wisc.edu)

ITEMS FOR THE DIVISION CHIEF, CoRP:

Presentations at a Mini-Severe Weather Seminar: Tim Schmit and Leigh Orf (SSEC) gave presentations at the annual Mini-Severe Weather Seminar on March 24, 2018 at Madison College. The presentations were "The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Advanced Baseline Imager" and "Observing and Modeling Supercell Thunderstorms and Tornadoes". More information can be found at http://midwestdarksky.com/. (T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291)

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Figure caption: Leigh Orf at the Weather Seminar showing a recent tornado simulation. 

Two Papers Accepted for Publication: Two papers were recently accepted for publication: 1) Blackwell, W., S. Braun, R. Bennartz, C. Velden, M. DeMaria, R. Atlas, J. Dunion, F. Marks, R. Rogers, B. Annane, and R. Leslie, 2018: An Overview of the TROPICS NASA Earth Venture Mission. Accepted in QJRMS, and 2) Zhang, S., Z. Pu, and C. Velden, 2018: Impact of Enhanced Atmospheric Motion Vectors on HWRF Hurricane Analyses and Forecasts with Different Data Assimilation Configurations, accepted in Mon. Wea. Rev. (C. Velden, CIMSS, 608-262-9168)

Climate Change Presentation : For the second year in a row, Margaret Mooney from the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) presented on climate change at a master gardeners convention in Rio Wisconsin on March 24, 2018. The one-day event was organized by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension (UW-Extension). The 45-minute presentation focused on the Great Lakes Region and featured data from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United States National Climate Assessment (NCA) and the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI). More information can be found at https://columbia.uwex.edu/master-gardener/lets-get-green-and-growing/. (M. Mooney, CIMSS, (608) 265-2123)

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