CIMSS-NOAA Weekly Report [ Archive ]

CIMSS-NOAA WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING APRIL 26, 2024

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29 Teachers from 16 states and Puerto Rico traveling to the GOES-U launch: A Teacher Workshop is planned for the GOES-U Launch at Kennedy Space Center in June. Originally planned for April, the rescheduled workshop and satellite launch date resulted in participant attrition. Happily, 29 teachers from 16 states and Puerto Rico are still planning to travel to the historic event. The Teacher Workshop is being organized by NOAA's Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) as part of the GOES-R Education Proving Ground. More information is available at https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/education/goesr/. (M. Mooney, CIMSS, margaret.mooney@ssec.wisc.edu)

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Figure: GOES-U Teacher Workshop Participants' states of origin.

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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 and Scott Lindstrom published the following case studies: "VIIRS views Severe Clear over the Great Lakes" (April 25); "Record Daily Rainfall on Guam" (April 24); "Prescribed burns in the Florida Panhandle" (April 22); "Satellite Images of the Sun (on April 8th)" (April 22); "Great Lakes on Earth Day 2024" (April 22); "PHS model output for severe weather over Missouri and Illinois on 18 April" (April 22); "Severe thunderstorms produce large hail and damaging winds in parts of North Carolina and South Carolina" (April 20). Read more at the CIMSS Satellite Blog: https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/. (S. Lindstrom, CIMSS, 608-263-4425; S. Bachmeier, CIMSS; E. Verbeten, SSEC, 608-263-4206)

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Figure: NOAA-20 overflew the Great Lakes early on 22 April 2024 (Earth Day) and the lack of cloud cover (except over northeastern Lake Superior) allowed a determination of Lake Surface Temperatures over most of the Great Lakes. As is usually the case, Lake Erie is the warmest lake, with temperatures near 50^oF over the western part of the lake (values are closer to 41-42^oF just north of Erie, PA).

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