CIMSS-NOAA Weekly Report [ Archive ]

CIMSS AND ASPB WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 3, 2021

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Turbulence Seminar at Aviation Weather Center: Anthony Wimmers gave an invited presentation at the quarterly Aviation Weather Seminar Series on November 19, 2021, hosted by the Aviation Weather Center. The talk, entitled "Nowcasting aircraft turbulence with AI, satellite and NWP" covered the research under the NOAA ROSES support for aviation turbulence work. (T. Wimmers, CIMSS, 608-263-3294)

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CIMSS Satellite Blog Updates: The Cooperative Institute for Satellite Studies (CIMSS) Satellite Blog (https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/) was updated with the following posts: "Blowing dust in Argentina" (Nov. 24), "Showers over the south Pacific" (Nov. 24), "NOAA Unique Combined Atmospheric Processing System (NUCAPS) use over Alaska" (Nov. 24), "Hole punch cloud features over Wisconsin and Illinois" (Nov. 22), "Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) winds versus Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) winds" (Nov. 22) and "Comparing NUCAPS profiles and North American Mesoscale Model (NAM) Nest profiles" (Nov. 19), "Strong gap flow into the Gulf of Tehuantepec" (Nov. 26), "Standing waves to the lee of the Hawaiian Islands" (Nov. 29), "Tropical Storm Nyatoh in the Philippine Sea" (Nov. 30), "Turbulence Probability and moisture with a strong jet" (Nov 30), "GOES-17 IFR Probability Fields now available in RealEarth" (Dec. 1), "Typhoon Nyatoh in the Philippine Sea" (Dec. 1), and "Quiz Time: What county in the USA has all boundaries visible from satellite?" (Dec. 2). (S. Lindstrom, CIMSS, 608-263-4425, S. Bachmeier, CIMSS, A. Ross, CIMSS)

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Figure: Terra MODIS True Color and False Color RGB mages, showing several "hole punch" clouds with glaciated fallstreak clouds (darker shades of cyan in the False Color image) across southeastern Wisconsin and northeastern Illinois on Nov. 22, 2021. (credit: CIMSS)

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Figure: NOAA-20 VIIRS Infrared mage of Tropical Storm Nyatoh at 0356 UTC on Dec. 1, 2021 -- showing cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures of -100C and colder (internal cluster of red pixels).

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