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ASPB AND CIMSS WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING JULY 4, 2003

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Great Lakes Region Steering Committee: As part of NOAA Administrator VADM C. Lautenbacher's plan for pilot programs on regionalization within NOAA, Steve Brandt of the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL, Ann Arbor, Michigan) will lead a committee to coordinate NOAA activities in the Great Lakes region. Each NOAA line office is represented on the committee. J. Key will represent NESDIS. The two main goals of the regional committees are to improve intra-line office communication and to develop and enhance NOAA's corporate image in the region. (J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605)

ITEMS FOR THE DIVISION CHIEF, ARAD:

Presentation on Data Assimilation at the South Pole: R. Aune gave a talk titled "Assimilating Clouds and Water Vapor from MODIS at High Latitudes" at the Antarctic Meteorology Research Center Annual Meeting held in Madison, Wisconsin, June 23-26, 2003. Preliminary results were presented from a case study where cloud-top pressure and total precipitable water from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) were used to initialize water vapor and clouds in the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) Regional Assimilation System (CRAS) running over the Antarctic continent. Significant changes in the forecast water vapor, precipitation and cloud fields due to MODIS were noted. Daily forecast for Antarctica are now being generated in preparation for real-time MODIS assimilation and can be viewed at http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/model/antarctica/antarctic.html. (R. Aune, E/RA2, 608-262-1071)

MODIS Polar Winds Data Delivery to the U.S. Navy: In response to a request by the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC, U.S. Navy) for the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) polar winds data, the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) set up procedures to routinely transfer the real-time winds data to FNMOC.  The polar winds data are being tested in the FNMOC 3-dimensional variational analysis (3DVAR) system. (C. Velden, CIMSS, 608-262-9168, D. Santek, CIMSS, 608-263-7410, J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605)

NASA Interdisciplinary Science Proposal Review Meeting: On June 30-July 1, J. Key participated in a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) panel meeting for proposals submitted to a recent NASA Research Announcement regarding interdisciplinary science in the Earth Observing System (EOS) program.  (Details withheld for reasons of security and privacy.) (J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605)

Presentation on GOES-9 Data and Products:  At the request of the director of the Office of Research and Applications, a presentation was created that showed various Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-9 data and products. These included examples of imager radiances as well as clear-sky brightness temperatures, and sounder radiances and associated products (retrievals, Derived Product Images and cloud-top information). GOES-9 is located over the western Pacific. The presentation is available upon request. (T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291, T. Schreiner , CIMSS, 608-263-6754, J. Nelson, CIMSS, 608-263-6013, G.S. Wade, E/RA2, 608-263-4743)

GOES-9 products  (Click image to enlarge)

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