CIMSS-NOAA Weekly Report [ Archive ]

CIMSS AND ASPB WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 21, 2022

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2022 Cairo Water Week (CWW): William Straka presented at the 2022 Cairo Water Week (CWW), which is a preparatory platform for the 27th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations (UN) Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) to be held in November 2022, as well as the 2023 UN Water Conference on “Harnessing Satellite services to reduce flood risk - WMO’s contribution”. The presentation highlighted NOAA and Cooperative Instutute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) products, such as Morphed Integrated Microwave Imagery (MIMIC) for tracking atmospheric river events and the NOAA combined low earth orbit/geostationary satellite flood products. This work and presentation was done in partnership with the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) Space Systems and Utilization Division. (W. Straka, CIMSS)

NASA Earth Venture Mission Science Team Meeting: The first Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS) Science Team Meeting was held at Colorado State University during 11-13 October 2022. INCUS is a recently awarded NASA Earth Venture Mission-3 (EVM-3) satellite mission. The INCUS mission will launch three small satellites in an extremely tight low earth orbit. INCUS will observe and quantify vertical motions in tropical convective clouds over short time scales to better understand how updrafts are related to convective storm intensity. INCUS satellites will carry scanning profiling radars and microwave radiometers. As part of the INCUS Science Team, Mark Kulie (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR) gave a talk entitled "INCUS-NOAA Synergy: GOES Observations and Derived Cloud Products for INCUS Applications." NOAA satellite observations and products will play a key role in both INCUS field campaigns and post-launch INCUS satellite applications that include the development of a convective updraft nowcasting tool. (M. Kulie, E/RA2, 608-263-6583, mark.kulie@noaa.gov)

TRAINING AND EDUCATION:

Training on Fog/Low Stratus and Sounding Products: Scott Lindstrom from the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS), led two Virtual Institute for Satellite Integration Training (VISIT) webinars this week. On 19 October, the aviation focal point from the National Weather Service (NWS) forecast office in Mobile AL learned about GOES-R Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) Probability fields, and how they can be used operationally to help diagnose regions of fog. On 20 October, two forecasters from the NWS forecast office in Burlington VT learned about NOAA-Unique Combined Atmospheric Processing System (NUCAPS) Profiles of temperature and moisture, and how that important thermodynamic information might be used operationally (S. Lindstrom, CIMSS, 608 263 4425)

CIMSS-led presentation at TOWR-S Satellite Book Club: Scott Lindstrom and Lee Cronce, both from the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS), led a Total Operational Weather Readiness-Satellites (TOWR-S) Satellite Book Club (SBC) webinar titled ' What LIS Data in AWIPS can tell us ' that discussed Lightning Imaging Sensor data (the LIS flies on the International Space Station (ISS)) and how it can augment Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) data on GOES-East and GOES-West. This Satellite Book Club webinar had about 40 attendees. The webinar was recorded and is available on the NOAA VLab and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7TtBOb6ysU&list=PLJzZC8w9vPV3kIBVNmQYzZfHO6vGZeNhN&index=2&themeRefresh=1). (S. Lindstrom, L. Cronce, CIMSS; 608 263 4425)

MEDIA INTERACTIONS AND REQUESTS:

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 Distinguished Scientist Liam Gumley is supporting NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System with one-minute satellite data for faster detection and monitoring of wildfires across the U.S. and Canada. WISC-TV Channel3000 aired this story: https://www.channel3000.com/uw-madisons-one-minute-data-helps-nasa-detect-wildfires-faster/. 2. CIMSS Satellite Blog contributors Scott Lindstrom, Scott Bachmeier and Tim Schmit published these case studies: Tornadoes and damaging winds along a cold front across southeast Wisconsin" (Oct. 12), “Tropical Storm Karl in the Gulf of Mexico” (Oct. 13), "Lake effect convection over southern Lake Michigan (Oct. 17) and “Hurricanes Charley (2004) and Ian (2022)” (Oct. 20). Read more at the CIMSS Satellite Blog: https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/. (S. Lindstrom, CIMSS, S. Bachmeier, CIMSS, T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291, tim.j.schmit@noaa.gov, E. Verbeten, SSEC and J. Phillips, SSEC, 608-262-8164)

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