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IN THE PRESS:
ITEMS FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR:
ITEMS FOR THE ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR:
ITEMS FOR THE OFFICE DIRECTOR, ORA:
GOES Wildfire ABBA Included in Exploratorium's Global Change Education Program: The San Francisco Exploratium museum will be including real-time Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Wildfire Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm (WF_ABBA) fire products in their online "Global Climate Change: Research Explorer" education outreach web site. The site is funded by the National Science Foundation and is expected to be launched in July. The purpose of the web site is to help the public better understand climate change issues and how scientific research is conducted. (E. Prins, E/RA2, 608-263-6607, C. Schmidt, CIMSS, 608-262-7973, J. Feltz, CIMSS, 608-263-3434)
Lectures on Applications of Satellite Data Given
at COMET: R. Aune and S. Bachmeier
presented lectures on the use of satellite data for forecasting to Science Operations Officers (SOOs) from
the National Weather Service (NWS)
attending the Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology Education
and Training (COMET) Mesoscale Analysis and Prediction Course (COMAP) in Boulder, Colorado. S. Bachmeier demonstrated
the use of high-resolution imager
and sounder animations for detecting significant
mesoscale events. R. Aune focussed on initializing weather prediction models with observations from
satellites. Eighteen SOOs from around
the country attended the course. (R. Aune, E/24, 608-262-1071, S.
Bachmeier, CIMSS, 608-263-3958)
ITEMS FOR THE DIVISION CHIEF, ARAD:
Annual Composite of GOES Wildfire ABBA Fire Products
for the Western Hemisphere: The first year of half-hourly Geostationary
Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-8) Wildfire Automated Biomass
Burning Algorithm (WF_ABBA) fire products for the Western Hemisphere (September
1, 2000 through August 31, 2001) were reprocessed using a temporal filtering
technique. This technique eliminates all fire pixels which do not
occur at least twice within a 0.1 degree area during the past 12 hours.
The reprocessed alpha-blended composite for North, Central, and South America
shows significantly fewer false alarms and clearly outlines the major
burning areas. The temporal filtering is a component of version
6.0 of the Wildfire ABBA. (E. Prins, E/RA2, 608-263-6607,
C. Schmidt, CIMSS, 608-262-7973, J. Feltz, CIMSS, 608-263-3434)
(Click image to enlarge)
Figure Caption: This composite image provides a summary of temporally
filtered fires detected every half hour with the GOES Wildfire ABBA throughout
the Western Hemisphere for a full year (September 1, 2000 - August 31,
2001). The majority of the fires are in South America and clearly
illustrate the significant use of fire as an agricultural management and
deforestation tool in this region.
Retirement Seminar: Geary Callan attended a
retirement seminar on May 21, 2002, sponsored by the Greater Madison Federal
Agency Association (GMFAA). Although the one-day seminar did not have the
detailed workshops that the three-day seminars offer, it is strongly recommended
for federal employees approaching retirement age. (G. Callan, E/RA2, 608-263-3951)
SEARCH Workshop Report Published: A report on
the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) Workshop, held last fall
in Seattle, Washington, has been published (Contribution 2452 from the
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, U.S. Department of Commerce). The
report contains a contribution by J. Key on cloud and radiation data sets.
SEARCH is a multi-agency initiative to study Arctic climate change, its
connection to lower latitude climate systems, and its impact on the people
of the Arctic. (J. Key, E/RA2,
608-263-2605)
Reviews for JAOT: T. Schmit completed reviews of two articles for the Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. (T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291)
VISITORS:
NEXT WEEK:
Participation in Spring AGU Meeting: E.
Prins, J. Feltz, and C. Schmidt will participate in the Spring American
Geophysical Union meeting in Washington D.C. on May 28-31. E. Prins
will give a talk on recent and future geostationary biomass burning monitoring
activities. C. Schmidt will present a poster on applications of the
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Wildfire Automated
Biomass Burning Algorithm (WF_ABBA) processing system. J. Feltz will
present a poster on case study comparisons of GOES WF_ABBA fire observations
and downwind Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (MOPITT)
derived carbon monoxide values. She will also present a poster on
the development and applications of a GOES-8 derived aerosol optical thickness
product in North and South America. (E. Prins, E/RA2, 608-263-6607,
J. Feltz, CIMSS, 608-263-3434, C. Schmidt, CIMSS, 608-262-7973)
LOOKING AHEAD:
IN THE PRESS:
ITEMS FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR:
ITEMS FOR THE ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR:
ITEMS FOR THE OFFICE DIRECTOR, ORA:
International VISITview Session: A one hour real-time
global satellite data briefing was held at the World Meteorological Organization's
(WMO) Asia-Pacific Satellite Applications Training Seminar in Melbourne,
Australia. Using the Virtual Institute for Satellite Integration Training
(VISIT) VISITview-based collaborations recently set up for the Geostationary
Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) -East, GOES-West, Meteosat-5 and
-7, and the Geostationary Meteorological System (GMS), several scientists
participated using VISITview and Yahoo's voice conferencing software.
Tom Whittaker (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies,
CIMSS) provided an overview of VISITview using slides prepared in PowerPoint
and delivered using VISITview; Mark DeMaria (Cooperative Institute for Research
in the Atmosphere, CIRA) gave a briefing using GOES-West; Whittaker then continued
using GOES-East; Tony Mostek (Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology
Education and Training, COMET) discussed the weather over eastern Europe
using Meteosat-5. Scott Bachmeier (CIMSS) and Bob Aune participated from
a COMET meeting in Boulder, Colorado. The briefing ended with Ian Bell,
Jeff Wilson (Austrailian Bureau of Meteorolgy) and Jim Purdom (CIRA) discussing
the images from GMS. It was a lively and spontaneous opportunity for the
40 attendees of the Asia-Pacific Satellite Applications Training Seminar to
check out the world's weather using VISITview's annotation, animation and
enhancement capabilities. (T. Whittaker , CIMSS, 608-262-2759)
ITEMS FOR THE DIVISION CHIEF, ARAD:
Undergraduate Student to Work on Polar Winds Project:
Janie Wellnitz, an undergraduate student in the Atmospheric and Oceanic
Sciences department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will help with
the polar winds project through the summer. Her primary responsibilities
are to monitor the Moderate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)
and Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) polar wind generation
on a day-to-day basis and to compile statistics from these products.
(D. Santek, CIMSS, 608-263-7410, J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605)
Undergraduate Student to Work on ABI Project:
Justin M. Sieglaff has been hired as a student hourly to support the Geostationary
Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI)
effort at Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS).
Justin, from Eagle, Wisconsin, will be a senior in meteorology this fall
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Justin will be accessing Airborne
Visible InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) data to help simulate the
proposed visible/near infrared bands on the ABI. (T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291)
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