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NOAA Great Lakes Regionalization Committee Meeting: J. Key participated in the NOAA Great Lakes Regionalization steering committee meeting via telecon on October 17, 2003.  As part of NOAA's  plan for pilot programs on regionalization within NOAA, the regional steering committees are charged with improving intra-line office communication and enhancing NOAA's corporate image in the region.  This first meeting of the committee focused on information dissemination in the form of a NOAA Great Lakes web site.  The committee consists of Stephen Brandt (chair, OAR), Richard Wagenmaker (NWS), Frank Almeida (NMFS), Ellen Brody (NOS), and Jeff Key (NESDIS). (J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605)

WF_ABBA Fire Products Provided for Multi-Agency Real-Time Air Quality Assessment Demonstration Project:  For the months of September and October, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Wildfire Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm (WF_ABBA) fire products are being provided as input to an air quality assessment and forecasting demonstration project hosted at NASA Langley.  The WF_ABBA fire products were integrated into a real-time web site to provide insight on the impact of fires on regional air quality.  This effort is part of the IDEA (Infusing satellite Data into Environmental Applications) program which is a partnership between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) with the goal of improving air quality assessment, management, and prediction by infusing satellite measurements into analyses for public benefit.  (E. Prins, E/RA2, 530-271-2256, J. Feltz, CIMSS, 608-263-3434, C. Schmidt, CIMSS, 608-262-7973)

GOES WF_ABBA Alpha-Blended Products Provided for ABC TV Movie:  The Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) Biomass Burning Monitoring Team provided an animation of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Wildfire Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm (WF_ABBA) alpha-blended composites of the Western U.S. to T. Smith, an art director for an ABC TV movie called "Picking Up & Dropping Off".  The animation will be used as a backdrop for the main character who is a Denver weatherman.  (E. Prins, E/RA2, 530-271-2256, C. Schmidt, CIMSS, 608-262-7973)

ECMWF is now using more GOES water vapor radiances operationally:  As of October 7, 2003, the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) is now also operationally assimilating the clear-sky radiances from the water vapor channel on Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-9 and GOES-12 imagers. Previously only GOES-10 radiances were assimilated by ECMWF. The GOES radiance files are being generated at the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS). To nearly complete tropical coverage, ECMWF also assimilates data from METEOrological SATellite (Met)-5 and -7. (T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291)

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McIDAS Users Group Meeting: T. Schmit attended the annual Man computer Interactive Data Access System (McIDAS) Users Group (MUG) meeting on October 16 and 17 at the Plye Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. There were many interesting presentations on diverse satellite-related topics including, the status of International MODIS/AIRS Processing Package (IMAPP) and Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder (AIRS) data, a demonstration on the web-based geostationary archive inventory, value-added Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) products, an introduction to Unidata's Integrated Data Viewer (IDV), data from the Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) and current GOES plans.  T. Schreiner gave a presentation entitled "Some Value-Added GOES Products on McIDAS" with co-authors J. Nelson, T. Schmit and G. Wade.  (T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291)

Code for Simulation of ABI Images from AIRS Provided to CIRA: A number of Interactive Data Language (IDL) routines for convolving several Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) infrared bands with high-spectral Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder (AIRS) data were provided to the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA). This is version 1.1 of University of Wisconsin Infrared Simulator (UWIS). Improved ABI spectral response functions were also made available. (T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291)

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