CIMSS-NOAA Weekly Report [ Archive ]

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

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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. "Taking Earth's temperature," a column by CIMSS Director Tristan L'Ecuyer, was published in the Wisconsin State Journal in collaboration with the UW-Madison College of Letters and Science. L'Ecuyer describes his research involving CubeSats in the Arctic that -- when launched in 2023 -- will measure the full emission spectrum, opening a new frontier in Arctic research and understanding of the Arctic's changing climate. Read more: https://ls.wisc.edu/news/taking-earths-temperature.
2. CIMSS Scientist Jason Otkin is the recipient of an award from the NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO) to "connect ecological drought monitoring tools with natural resource stakeholders in Montana." Read the CPO press release: https://go.wisc.edu/yo7qzo.
3. CIMSS Satellite Blog contributors Scott Lindstrom and Scott Bachmeier published these case studies: "Lake effect fog/stratus in North Dakota" (Oct. 26), “Band 7 on Himawari-9 vs. Band 7 on Himawari-8” (Oct. 26), "Tropical Invest 94L north of Bermuda" (Oct. 25) and “Blowing dust across the central Great Plains" (Oct. 23). Read more at the CIMSS Satellite Blog: https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/. (T. L'Ecuyer, CIMSS, J. Otkin, CIMSS, S. Lindstrom, CIMSS, S. Bachmeier, CIMSS, E. Verbeten, SSEC, J. Phillips, SSEC, 608-262-8164)

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Figure: A comparison of Japanese Meteorological Agency's Himawari-8 Visible Imagery and Himawari-8 and Himawari-9 Day Convection RGB imagery near Guam on Oct. 26, 2022 in a region without much intense convection. Read more at the CIMSS Satellite Blog: https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/archives/48499. Credit: CIMSS, JMA.

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Figure: GOES-16 Dust RGB images, with and without plots of hourly surface observations, showed dust plumes in the Central Plains ahead of a cold front on Oct. 23, 2022. Read more at the CIMSS Satellite Blog: https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/archives/48474. Credit: CIMSS, NOAA.

PUBLICATIONS:

Arctic basin-wide sea ice thickness retrieval paper published: A paper titled "A simple model for daily basin-wide thermodynamic sea ice thickness growth retrieval" by James Anheuser (CIMSS), Yinghui Liu (STAR), and Jeff Key (STAR), has been published in The Cryosphere. The focus of this paper is to develop a retrieval method for estimating thermodynamic sea ice thickness growth from space by linking a thermodynamic sea ice energy balance relation known as Stefan's law and retrieved snow–ice interface temperature from passive microwave satellite data. The paper is available at https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/16/4403/2022/. Citation: Anheuser, J., Liu, Y., and Key, J. R.: A simple model for daily basin-wide thermodynamic sea ice thickness growth retrieval, The Cryosphere, 16, 4403–4421, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-4403-2022, 2022. (J. Anheuser, CIMSS; Y. Liu, E/RA2, 608-890-1893, yinghui.liu@noaa.gov; J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605, jeff.key@noaa.gov)

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