CIMSS-NOAA Weekly Report [ Archive ]

CIMSS AND ASPB WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING APRIL 16, 2021

PRODUCTS AND APPLICATIONS:

Great Lakes Climate App: NOAA's Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) recently updated a climate interactive with temperature data for 26 towns in the Great Lakes Region through January 1, 2021. The HTML5 web app now contains 100 years of NOAA data. Users can view region-wide decadal temperatures, make comparisons between decades, or click on any location for average annual temperatures for each year of the period of record. (http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/education/gl/glclim/) (M. Mooney, CIMSS, margaret.mooney@ssec.wisc.edu, T. Whittaker, CIMSS)

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WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCES, AND MEETINGS:

15th International Winds Workshop: The 15th International Winds Workshop (IWW) was hosted by the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) but held virtually 12-16 April 2021. The IWWs are an ideal forum for the satellite-derived winds producers to interact with the numerical weather prediction (NWP) community on product developments, forecast impacts, and problems. Scientists from the international satellite and numerical weather prediction communities participated in the workshop, with representatives from the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Spain, The Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, India, Japan, Korea, China, and Australia. NOAA personnel in attendance included Jeff Key, Jaime Daniels, and Andrew Heidinger. Participating Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) scientists included Steve Wanzong (co-chair), Dave Santek (Aeolus evaluation and tandem winds), Dave Stettner (winds over hurricane cores), Rich Dworak (winds from additional spectral channels), and Agnes Lim (assimilation of GOES-16/17 winds). (D. Santek, CIMSS, 608-263-7410; J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605, jkey@ssec.wisc.edu)

Presentations at the virtual EUMETSAT Convection Working Group Meeting: Ralph Petersen and Tim Wagner from the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) each made presentations at the EUMETSAT Convection Working Group Meeting held virtually from 6-8 April 2021. The paper by Petersen entitled "A Multi-satellite Platform Approach to providing Short-term Guidance of Significant Weather Potential" was co-authored by Lee Cronce (from CIMSS). The paper by Wagner was titled "On the Use of Routine Airborne Observations for Evaluating IASI Profile Retrievals" was co-authored by Ralph Petersen and Thomas August (from EUMETSAT). Ralph Petersen also served as discussion leader for a separate session on "Multi-sensor Approaches". (R. Petersen, CIMSS, 262-763-2583, T. Wagner, CIMSS, 608-890-1980, L. Cronce, CIMSS, 608-265-6282)

Presentation to Broadcast Meteorologists: Jim Kossin (NCEI/CSSD) will give an invited webinar to broadcast meteorologists. The webinar has been organized by the AMS Committee on the Station Scientist. The webinar is scheduled for 28 April at 11am EDT and the title is "Hurricanes and Climate Change: What We Know, and What We Don't". The link to the webinar is http://ametsoc.org/WebinarHurricanesCC. (Jim Kossin, NCEI/CSSD, 608-265-5356)

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TRAINING AND EDUCATION:

MEDIA AND OUTREACH:

SSEC and CIMSS Scientists in the News: Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) and the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) provide expert interviews, imagery and case studies to promote science. This week: 1) SSEC scientists Claire Pettersen and David Henderson were chosen to receive competitively awarded funds through the NASA New (Early Career) Investigator Program in Earth Science to pursue their innovative research. Read more: https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/news/articles/13569/. 2) CIMSS Satellite Blog contributors Scott Bachmeier and Scott Lindstrom published case studies on "Cold cloud tops associated with Tropical Storm Surigae" (Apr. 16), "Tropical Depression (update: Tropical Storm Surigae) over the western Pacific" (Apr. 13), "CSPP GeoSphere views of the Soufriere Eruption on 11 April 2021" (Apr. 11), and "Multi-day eruptions of the La Soufrière volcano in the West Indies" (Apr. 9-13). Read more: https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/. (J. Phillips, SSEC, 608-262-8164, C. Pettersen, SSEC, D. Henderson, SSEC, S. Bachmeier, CIMSS, S. Lindstrom, CIMSS)

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Figure: Soufriere eruption of Apr. 11, 2021 in real time using data from the four GOES-16 domains: Full disk, CONUS and Mesoscale Sectors 1 and 2. Read more: https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/archives/40585. Credit: CIMSS, CSPP GeoSphere.

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Figure: GOES-16 Ash RGB and SO2 RGB images displayed signatures of two distinct eruptions of the La Soufrière volcano on the island of Saint Vincent in the West Indies on Apr. 9, 2021. Signatures of high ash or SO2 concentrations appear as brighter shades of pink on the RGB images. Read more: https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/archives/40572. Credit: CIMSS.

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