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CIMSS AND ASPB WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING JANUARY 28, 2022

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UW-Madison SSEC/CIMSS Participation in the 2022 102nd Annual American Meteorological Society Conference: Representatives from the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS), Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC), and the NOAA Advanced Satellite Products Branch (ASPB) participated in the 102nd Annual American Meteorological Society (AMS) meeting held virtually. There were over 25 oral presentations, 10 posters, and 15 chairs/conveners by CIMSS/SSEC staff within many of the 39 separate active AMS conferences. Others participated in panels, networking sessions, student engagement, as session co-chairs, conference co-chairs and other roles. The SSEC virtual exhibit featured several downloadable materials and links relevant to a broad range of software, activities, and resources available from SSEC and CIMSS. Live video demonstrations were given each day with topics including general usage and recent developments with McIDAS-V, SSEC RealEarth, Community Satellite Processing Package (CSPP), and the SSEC Data Services (SDS) and other hardware/software support. (W. Feltz, CIMSS/SSEC, 608-265-6283, wayne.feltz@ssec.wisc.edu; T. L’Ecuyer, CIMSS/SSEC, 608-890-2107, tlecuyer@wisc.edu, T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291, tim.j.schmit@noaa.gov)

Seminar at the University of Arizona in Tucson: On 27 January 2022, P. Menzel gave a seminar on “Measuring moisture from space - a perspective on the advent and evolution of satellite observations" as part of the weekly colloquium series in the Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Arizona. The talk highlighted some of the events from the last 50 years that contributed to the evolution of the remote sensing of the global moisture distributions and their diurnal variations; it also noted the promise of and necessity for the planned GEOXO Sounder. Approximately 40 faculty and graduate students attended virtually. Subsequent discussions with Professor Xubin Zeng and others centered on connecting land surface and tropospheric moisture trends. (W. P. Menzel, CIMSS, 608-263-4930, paulm@ssec.wisc.edu)

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Science is for Everyone launches at AMS: Margaret Mooney from NOAA's Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) co-presented with the Houston National Weather Service (NWS) Hydrologist for the first-ever "Science is For Everyone" public outreach series on Monday January 24th. The topic was "Water, Friend or Foe" and Mooney gave a global overview via satellite imagery. The series coincided with the 102nd American Meteorological Society (AMS) annual meeting as a new initiative to advance science literacy for all. (M. Mooney, CIMSS, margaret.mooney@ssec.wisc.edu)

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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 News published a story about the The Polar Radiant Energy in the Far InfraRed Experiment's miniature detectors designed to measure emissivities at frequencies spanning the far-IR wavelengths. PREFIRE is led by Tristan L’Ecuyer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and funded by NASA. Read more: https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/news/articles/14213/. 2) CIMSS Satellite Blog contributors Scott Bachmeier and Scott Lindstrom published these case studies: "Heavy Rain threat over the Samoan Islands" (Jan. 27), "Cyclone Batsirai in the South Indian Ocean" (Jan. 27), "Residual snow cover from North Carolina to Delaware" (Jan. 24), "SAR views of ice over the Great Lakes" (Jan. 24), "The Great Lakes, viewed using GOES-16 and NOAA-20 imagery" (Jan. 21, 23), and "Atmospheric River affecting Alaska" (Jan. 21). Read more at the CIMSS Satellite Blog: https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/. (J. Phillips, SSEC, 608-262-8164, C. Bloch, SSEC, S. Bachmeier, CIMSS, S. Lindstrom, CIMSS)

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Figure: GOES-16 captured the extent of snow cover across parts of North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware resulting from a storm Jan. 21-22, 2022. Read more at the CIMSS Satellite Blog: https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/archives/44384. Credit: CIMSS, Geo2Grid, NOAA. 

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Figure: Morphed Integrated Microwave Imagery at CIMSS - Total Precipitable Water (MIMIC-TPW) over the South Pacific Ocean showed an increase in moisture around the Samoan Islands, Jan. 25-27, 2022. Read more at the CIMSS Satellite Blog: https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/archives/44401. Credit: CIMSS.

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