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CIMSS-NOAA Weekly Report
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IN THE PRESS:
ITEMS FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR:
ITEMS FOR THE ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR:
ITEMS FOR THE OFFICE DIRECTOR, ORA:
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
CIMSS Board Meeting: The Cooperative Institute for Meteorological
Satellite Studies (CIMSS) held its annual Board of Directors meeting on
Friday, December 7. The CIMSS Board has representatives from the
University of Wisconsin, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's
(NOAA) National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
(NESDIS), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
M. Colton (Office of Research and Applications) and J. Key (Advanced Satellite
Products Team) are on the Board and were in attendance. (J.
Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605)
ITEMS FOR THE DIVISION CHIEF, ARAD:
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Presentation at CIMSS Board Meeting: On December 7, 2001 T. Schmit
gave a presentation to the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite
Studies Board of Directors entitled "GOES at CIMSS: Turning Geostationary
Satellite Data into Information". CIMSS Geostationary Operational Environmental
Satellite (GOES) work from seven areas was summarized: product development,
product improvement and visualization, product validation, product implementation
and support, data assimilation, publications and training, and future GOES.
The presentation is available on request. (T.
Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291)
VISITORS:
NOAA ETL Visitor: Taneil Uttal from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Environmental Technology Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, visited the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) on December 5-6. Ms. Uttal's interests are in surface-based remote sensing of clouds with radar and lidar instruments. She operated a cloud radar instrument during the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic (SHEBA) experiment and maintains the instrument at the Barrow, Alaska Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Cloud and Radiation Testbed site. She gave a seminar and met with many scientists to discuss satellite remote sensing of clouds. (J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605)
NEXT WEEK:
LOOKING AHEAD:
IN THE PRESS:
ITEMS FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR:
ITEMS FOR THE ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR:
ITEMS FOR THE OFFICE DIRECTOR, ORA:
Nothing to report.
ITEMS FOR THE DIVISION CHIEF, ARAD:
Nothing to report.
NEXT WEEK:
LOOKING AHEAD: