CIMSS-NOAA Weekly Report
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ASPB AND CIMSS WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING APRIL 9, 2004

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ITEMS FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR:

ITEMS FOR THE ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR:

ITEMS FOR THE OFFICE DIRECTOR, ORA:

Summary of Hyper-spectral Infrared Data Compression Given to Upper Management: On April 7, T. Schmit, with M. Goldberg, gave a presentation to C. Hartman on the status of Office of Research and Applications (ORA) data compression activities with hyperspectral data. The compression team consists of members from the Office of Systems Development (OSD), ORA, the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS), and others. Recent activities were listed, including Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and lossy/lossless compression with wavelets. The presentation is available on request.  (T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291)

ITEMS FOR THE DIVISION CHIEF, ARAD

Presentation at the Tenth Biennial Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Conference:  On April 6-7, E. Prins attended the 10th Biennial Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Conference in Salt Lake City and gave an invited oral presentation titled "Geostationary Satellite Fire Monitoring Using the Wildfire Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm (WF_ABBA)."  The forestry user community has been using the half-hourly WF_ABBA product provided by NESDIS operations and was very interested in rapid scan geostationary imagery and fire products for early warning and diurnal monitoring in association with fire weather.  There were a number of presentations that highlighted how the MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) fire and vegetation products have become an integral tool within the US Forest Service remote sensing program.  Several of the keynote speakers expressed concerns and were confused regarding diminished fire detection and characterization capabilities with the future National Polar Orbiter Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Visible/Infrared Imager and Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). (E. Prins, E/RA2, 530-271-2256, C. Schmidt, CIMSS, 608-262-7973)

Paper Submitted on Radiative Fluxes from Models and Satellites: A paper titled "Comparison of surface radiative flux data sets over the Arctic Ocean" was submitted to the Journal of Geophysical Research.  The paper is co-authored by J. Liu and J. Curry (Georgia Institute of Technology), W. Rossow (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies), J. Key (NESDIS), and X. Wang (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies).  It compares and constrasts surface radiative fluxes from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction/National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCEP/NCAR) Reanalysis product, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts ERA-40 product, the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project cloud product, and the Extended Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer Polar Pathfinder (APP-x) dataset. Surface observations from the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic (SHEBA) experiment were used as "truth". (J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605)

Proposal Review: J. Key reviewed a proposal on lake ice formation processes for the National Science Foundation (NSF). (J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605)

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NEXT WEEK:

JCSDA Review: J. Key will attend the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation annual review and workshop in Camp Springs, MD, April 15-16.

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