CIMSS-NOAA Weekly Report [ Archive ]

CIMSS AND ASPB WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING JULY 8, 2022

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CIMSS Weather Camp: NOAA's Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) hosted 50 high school students from 32 states in a week-long virtual weather camp June 27th through July 1st. Along with a daily map discussion led by CIMSS's Derrick Herndon, students learned about different weather jobs each day that included two speakers from NOAA's National Weather Service: Marcia Cronce from NWS Milwaukee/Sullivan and Barbara Boustead from the Warning Decision Training Division. The agenda ranged from classic weather events and climate change to cutting-edge tools that incorporate artificial intelligence in forecasting. The full agenda is available online at https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/wxcamp/. (M. Mooney, CIMSS, margaret.mooney@ssec.wisc.edu, Derrick Herndon, CIMSS)

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Satellite image helps educate thousands via CIMSS social media: A stunning Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) image of clouds surrounding Lake Superior was the hook to help explain the summertime lake breeze phenomena via NOAA's Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) Twitter and Facebook accounts this week. Thus far the post has reached 47 thousand on Twitter and 15 thousand on Facebook. One follower replied "Wow! This is going straight into my lecture notes on land/sea breezes." (M. Mooney, margaret.mooney@ssec.wisc.edu, S. Bachmeier, CIMSS)

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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) CIMSS Satellite Blog contributors Scott Lindstrom, Scott Bachmeier and Alexa Ross published these case studies: "Tornado in metropolitan DC" (July 5), "Derecho in the Northern Plains" (July 5), "The Electra Fire in California" (July 5), and "Fog over southwestern lower Michigan" (July 2). Read more at the CIMSS Satellite Blog: https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/. (S. Lindstrom, CIMSS, S. Bachmeier, CIMSS, A. Ross, SSEC, J. Phillips, SSEC, 608-262-8164)

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Figure: GOES-16 images showed a mesoscale convective storm that developed across the Northern Plains on July 5, 2022. The storm produced a long path of straight-line winds that reached 99 mph, characterizing the event as a derecho. Read more at the CIMSS Satellite Blog: https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/archives/47096. Credit: CIMSS, NOAA.

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Figure: The Electra Fire near Jackson, California on July 4-5, 2022 as seen from GOES-17. Read more at the CIMSS Satellite Blog: https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/archives/47078. Credit: CIMSS, Geo2Grid, NOAA.

PUBLICATIONS:

Paper published on lightning forecasting: Scientists at the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) and NOAA published a paper titled, "ProbSevere LightningCast: A Deep-Learning Model for Satellite-Based Lightning Nowcasting" in the American Meteorological Society journal Weather and Forecasting (https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/wefo/37/7/WAF-D-22-0019.1.xml). The model uses images from Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R-series (GOES-R) Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) channels to predict the probability of next-hour lightning occurrence, as observed by the GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM). LightningCast was evaluated very favorably by forecasters at the Hazardous Weather Testbed this spring, and is currently being evaluated by a number of National Weather Service warning forecast offices. Citation: Cintineo, J.L., M.J. Pavolonis, and J.M. Sieglaff, 2022, ProbSevere LightningCast: A Deep-Learning Model for Satellite-Based Lightning Nowcasting, Weather and Forecasting, 37, 1239-1257, https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-22-0019.1. (J. Cintineo, CIMSS, cintineo@wisc.edu; M. Pavolonis, E/RA2, 608-263-9597, michael.pavolonis@noaa.gov; J. Sieglaff, CIMSS, justin.sieglaff@ssec.wisc.edu).

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