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ASPB AND CIMSS WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING JUNE 6, 2003

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Modernized Sensor Processing System GOES-12 Test: The Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) Data  Center responded to a request from Keith McKenzie (NESDIS Headquarters) to help test the Modernized Sensor Processing System (MSPS) by ingesting, archiving, and evaluating Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-12 data, which is being transmitted through GOES-8 and using the new MSPS.  The Data Center repointed their backup antenna to GOES-8, activiated a backup SSEC Desktop Ingestor and archived several hours of raw data.  The test data was evaluated by NESDIS and Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) scientists (T. Schmit, J. Robaidek, M. Gunshor) and results were sent to Keith McKenzie. (D. Wade, CIMSS, 608-263-0527)

Workshop on NOAA Regionalization in the Great Lakes:  A workshop was held at the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) in Ann Arbor, Michigan on June 3 to  improve coordination within NOAA across the Great Lakes region.  All NOAA line offices were represented by staff either stationed in the Great Lakes region or working on Great Lakes applications.  The participants described their activities and responsibilities and discussed potential avenues for improving intra-line office cooperation and enhancing NOAA's corporate image in the region.  Identification of an appropriate representative for the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), to serve on the steering committee, is underway.  (G.S. Wade,  E/RA2, 608-263-4743)

ECMWF Data Assimilation Scientists Visit CIMSS:  Matthew Szyndel and Lueder von Bremen of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) visited the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) June 3-4.  D. Szyndel works with the assimilation of clear sky radiances in ECMWF's forecast system, and discussed the product developed by CIMSS and the Advanced Satellite Products Team (ASPT) with T. Schmit and T. Schreiner.  Dr. von Bremen works with the assimilation of winds from geostationary and polar-orbiting satellites, and discussed assimilation issues and impacts with C. Velden, D. Santek, and J. Key.  The ECMWF scientists gave a CIMSS seminar on June 3.  (J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605)

ITEMS FOR THE DIVISION CHIEF, ARAD:

Geostationary Fire Product Data Assimilation Paper Submitted: A manuscript titled  "Monitoring the Transport of Biomass Burning Emissions in South America" was submitted to a special issue of the journal Environmental Fluid Dynamics.  The primary authors are S. Freitas and K. Longo of the Brazil Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) Center for Weather Prediction and Climate Studies (CPTEC) with a number of co-authors from Brazil and the United States.  For the past two years INPE/CPTEC has been assimilating the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm (ABBA) fire products into the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) in near real time to model the transport of carbon monoxide (CO) and particulate matter in the 2.5 micron range (PM2.5) associated with biomass burning emissions.  This paper provides results and demonstrates the capability to assimilate satellite derived fire products into a meteorological transport providing accurate pollutant transport fields.  (E. Prins, E/RA2, 530-271-2256)

GOES Sounder Coverage from Japan to Maine:  With the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-9 Sounder positioned over the far Pacific (155 East longitude), the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) continues to produce frequent geostationary sounding products, such as total precipitable water, in a wide midlatitude swath across the North Pacific Ocean and the U.S.  Real-time animations of select GOES Sounder imagery/products provide different perspectives of atmospheric evolution (http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/realtime/grtmain.html#g3pw).  The addition of cloud top pressure imagery to the display is forthcoming.  (G.S. Wade, E/RA2, 608-263-4743)

GOES sounder coverage  (Click image to enlarge)

Figure caption: Spatial composite of GOES-9 (far Pacific), GOES-10 (East Pacific and West US), and GOES-12 (East US) Sounder imagery for 1800 UTC on 05 June 2003.  Top: GOES Sounder band 11 (7.0 micrometers) brightness temperatures show relative moisture patterns in the mid troposphere.  Note large, dark, subsiding air masses in the far Pacific (around 25-30N and 155-170E) and East Pacific (around 20-35N and 110-140W) as well as distinctive small scale closed circulations over central Japan and the Northern US Plains.  Middle:  GOES Sounder band 4 (13.7 micrometers) brightness temperatures show broad large scale thermal patterns (in clear, cloud-free air) in the mid troposphere.  Note the two large  longwave ridges, oriented along 160E and 130W.  Bottom: GOES Sounder derived total precipitable water.  Note very moist tropical air (40-55mm) surrounding convection in the Gulf of Mexico with extension of moist air (30mm+) into the south central US, very dry air (<10mm) across the interior West US, and modest moisture (30mm+) across the mid Pacific (under the far Pacific ridge and into the mid Pacific trough).

Abstracts Submitted to AMS Fire Meeting: Members of the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) Biomass Burning Monitoring Team submitted abstracts to the American Meteorological Society's (AMS) 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology Joint With the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress, to be held November 16-20, 2003 in Orlando, Florida. The abstracts cover recent validation efforts and improvements in product speed for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Wildfire Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm (WF_ABBA). "Recent validation studies of the GOES Wildfire Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm (WF_ABBA) in North and South America" was submitted by Joleen Feltz, Michel Moreau (Environment Canada/Meteorological Services/Quebec region), Elaine M. Prins, Kirsten McClaid-Cook (State University of New York-SUNY, Albany), and Irving F. Brown (Woods Hole Research Center, Federal University of Acre, Brazil). "GOES Wildfire ABBA Applications in the Western Hemisphere" was submitted by Christopher C. Schmidt and Elaine M. Prins. (C. Schmidt, CIMSS, 608-262-7973, J. Feltz, CIMSS, 608-263-3434, E. Prins, E/RA2, 530-271-2256)

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