CIMSS-NOAA Weekly Report [ Archive ]

CIMSS AND ASPB WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING AUGUST 12, 2022

DATA, INFORMATION, AND USE-INSPIRED SCIENCE:

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AWARDS AND RECOGNITION:

TRAVEL AND MEETINGS:

SSEC/CIMSS Sponsors and Participated in the AMS Collective Madison Meeting (CMM): The University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) and the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) co-sponsored and participated in the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Collective Madison Meeting (CMM), 8-12 August 2022 at the Monona Terrace in Madison, Wisconsin. The CMM consisted of the following Conferences: the 25th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology joint with the NOAA Satellite Meeting, the 17th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography, and the 16th Conference on Cloud Physics/16th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation. In addition to convening a number of sessions, SSEC/CIMSS and STAR's Advanced Satellite Product Branch (ASPB) researchers and scientists had 22 first author oral presentations, including three plenary session talks, and also presented over 55 posters. More than 50 scientists and other guests visited SSEC and CIMSS in the Atmospheric Oceanic Sciences building for meetings and tours. SSEC also sponsored a table booth at the poster sessions where information exchanges occurred. A number of people from NESDIS Headquarters attended a portion of the meeting, including Dr. Steve Volz, Mark Paese, and Eric Madsen. (W. Feltz, SSEC/CIMSS, 608-265-6283, T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291, T. L'Ecuyer CIMSS, B. Pierce SSEC)

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Figure: The Monona Terrace conference facility with the Wisconsin State Capitol building behind. (Picture from https://www.mononaterrace.com/media/.)

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Figure: Visitors to SSEC and CIMSS during the AMS Collective Madison Meeting on the rooftop of the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences building. Credit: E. Verbeten, SSEC.

TRAINING AND EDUCATION:

CIMSS Participation in AMS Short Course at CMM: Scott Lindstrom, William Straka and Sam Batzli from the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, and Andy Heidinger (NESDIS) and Mark Kulie (NOAA/STAR) gave presentations or supplied information to a day-long AMS Short Course (https://rammb2.cira.colostate.edu/training/2022-ams-cmm-short-course/) that occurred before the American Meteorological Society's Collective Madison Meeting. Short Course topics included an introduction to JPSS and GOES/GeoXO satellites, hazardous algal blooms and lake surface temperatures over the Great Lakes, meteotsunamis, and lake-influenced convection in the northern and southern Hemispheres. The hybrid Short Course was attended by about 20 students, and had in-person and remote attendees. (M. Kulie, NOAA/STAR; A. Heidinger, NOAA/NESDIS; W. Straka, S. Batzli, S. Lindstrom, CIMSS; 608 263 4425)

MEDIA INTERACTIONS AND REQUESTS:

SOCIAL MEDIA AND BLOG Posts:

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: CIMSS Satellite Blog contributor Scott Bachmeier published these case studies: "Saharan Air Layer dust reaches the Southeast US coast" (Aug. 10), "Ice in Hudson Bay and the Northwest Passages" (Aug. 7), and "Record 24-hour rainfall in Sioux Falls, South Dakota" (Aug. 7). Read more at the CIMSS Satellite Blog: https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/. (E. Verbeten, SSEC, M. Vasys, CIMSS, A. Ross, SSEC, S. Bachmeier, CIMSS, J. Phillips, SSEC, 608-262-8164)

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Figure: GOES-16 images showing the westward transport of Saharan Air Layer dust across the Atlantic Ocean, Aug. 3-10, 2022. Read more at the CIMSS Satellite Blog: https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/archives/47524. Credit: CIMSS, NOAA.

PUBLICATIONS:

Paper on QC for ABI water vapor radiance assimilation published: A paper entitled "An Objective Quality Control of Surface Contamination Observations for ABI Water Vapor Radiance Assimilation" was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres. To help improve Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) water vapor radiance assimilation, a machine learning based quality control scheme is developed to determine if a water vapor radiance is affected by the surface or not. Only ABI water vapor radiances not affected by surface are assimilated. Results show that the new quality control scheme improves the Hurricane Harvey (2017) forecast over existing quality control schemes. Citation: Li, Z., Ma, Z., Wang, P., Lim, A. H. N., Li, J., Jung, J. A., et al. (2022), An objective quality control of surface contamination observations for ABI water vapor radiance assimilation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127, e2021JD036061, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD036061. (Z. Li, CIMSS, 608-890-1982)

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