CIMSS-NOAA Weekly Report [ Archive ]

CIMSS-NOAA WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 16, 2024

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Operational VIIRS Polar Winds Generated in the Cloud: The NESDIS Office of Satellite and Product Operations (OSPO) has implemented the SNPP, NOAA-20, and NOAA-21 VIIRS Polar Winds (VPW) Products in the NESDIS Common Cloud Framework (NCCF) User Acceptance Testing (UAT) environment. The products are now available via the Product Distribution and Access (PDA) system. The VPW products will transition to the NCCF Production (PROD) environment by March 6, 2024. (J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605, jeff.key@noaa.gov)

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Figure: An example of VIIRS polar winds from NOAA-21 over the Arctic and Antarctic in September 2023.

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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 and satellite imagery. This week: 1) CIMSS Satellite Blog contributors Scott Bachmeier, Scott Lindstrom, and Alexa Ross published the following case studies: "Large waves approaching Hawai’i" (February 14); "Winter storm produces heavy snowfall (with some lightning) across parts of the Northeast US" (February 13); "VIIRS imagery of a low pressure system near the North Pole" (February 13); "MIRS Rain Rate from Direct Broadcast" (February 13); "Wind, Storms, and Gales in Alaska" (February 12); "Satellite signatures of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch from California" (Februrary 09); "Turbulence near the axis of a strong subtropical jet stream" (February 09); "NUCAPS profiles are back in AWIPS" (February 09); "Assessing the likelihood of rain during a drought" (February 04); "Wildfires in Chile" (February 09). Read more at the CIMSS Satellite Blog: https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/. (S. Lindstrom, CIMSS, 608-263-4425; S. Bachmeier, CIMSS; A. Ross, CIMSS, 608-263-6765; E. Verbeten, SSEC, 608-263-4206.

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Figure: A sequence of Suomi-NPP VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 µm) images displayed the development of a coma-shaped cloud structure associated with a low pressure system near the North Pole (northwest of Greenland) on 13 February 2024.

PUBLICATIONS:

Paper on Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change Published in PNAS: A paper entitled "The growing inadequacy of an open-ended Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale in a warming world", by Michael Wehner (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) and James Kossin (SSEC), was published on 5 February 2024 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It is available at https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2308901121. In the five days following its publication, the paper has generated over 500 news stories from more than 350 news outlets (https://pnas.altmetric.com/details/159129223/news) (J. Kossin, SSEC)

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