CIMSS-NOAA Weekly Report [ Archive ]

CIMSS-NOAA WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING MARCH 22, 2024

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GSICS Annual Meeting and Newsletter article: Scientists from the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) participated in the Global Space-based Inter-Calibration System (GSICS) Annual Meeting held last week, covering a range of topics including the use of Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) data as one of the inter-calibration reference datasets. Additionally, a short article summarizing the reference inter calibration studies (Loveless et al., 2023, Comparison of the AIRS, IASI, and CrIS infrared sounders using simultaneous nadir overpasses: Novel methods applied to data from 1 October 2019 to 1 October 2020. Earth and Space Science, 10, e2023EA002878. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EA002878) and including newer comparison results for NOAA-21 CrIS is included in the GSICS Quarterly Newsletter, Vol. 17 No 4, 2024, doi: 10.25923/6c4m-y998. (D. Tobin, CIMSS, 608-265-6281)

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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 and last: 1) SSEC Researcher Alexa Ross, CIMSS Scientist John Cintineo, and CIMSS Satellite Blog contributors Scott Bachmeier, Scott Lindstrom published the following case studies: "Gridded NUCAPS in AWIPS include data from MetopC" (March 19); "Pyrocumulonimbus clouds in Sichuan, China" (March 16); "Widespread Convection over the central U.S." (March 15); "SpaceX Starship Test Flight 3" (March 14); "Severe Weather over Kansas" (March 14); "Thunderstorm produces giant hail in Campana, Argentina" (March 12); "Update on the Smokehouse Creek Fire and Windy Deuce Fire burn scars in Texas" (March 11); "GOES GLM captures lightning activity near Central America" (March 11); "MetopC NUCAPS profiles are now in AWIPS" (March 11); "Baroclinic leaf feature over the Hawai’ian Islands" (March 10); "Snow squalls (with some lightning) in Pennsylvania" (March 10). 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; J. Cintineo, CIMSS, 608-890-0619; E. Verbeten, SSEC, 608-263-4206.

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Figure: Himawari-9 True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid showed the east-northeast transport of the wildfire smoke plume, with its embedded pyroCb cloud.

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