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ASPB AND CIMSS WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING JULY 16, 2004
IN THE PRESS:
ITEMS FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR:
ITEMS FOR THE ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR:
IGOS Global Observation of Forest Cover and
Land Cover Dynamics Global Geostationary Fire Monitoring Workshop Report:
The final report of the Integrated Global Observing Strategy (IGOS)
GOFC/GOLD Global Geostationary Fire Monitoring Applications Workshop
held at the EUropean Organization for the exploitation of
METeorological SATellites (EUMETSAT) in Darmstadt, Germany has been
completed. The overall assessment of the workshop was that
geostationary systems have an important contribution to make to active
fire and smoke detection and characterization with applications in fire
management, emissions and air quality studies, and global change
research and that they can provide valuable diurnal information that is
complementary to fire products produced by higher resolution polar
orbiting instruments. Workshop participants felt that a global
geostationary fire monitoring network is technically feasible, but that
it must be supported by the operational agencies in order to sustain
the activity and produce standardized long-term fire inventories of
known accuracy. In order to demonstrate the science and show the
benefits and feasibility of a global geostationary fire monitoring
network, a demonstration/feasibility project was planned.
NOAA/NESDIS Office of Research and Applications (ORA) and the
UW-Madison Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
(CIMSS) will adapt the Geostationary Operational Environmental
Satellite (GOES-10/-12) Wildfire Automated Biomass Burning
Algorithm (WF_ABBA) to the European Meteosat Second Generation (MSG)
Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI), with an
experimental version in place by June 2005, followed by adaptation of
the WF_ABBA to the Japanese Multi-functional Transport SATellite
(MTSAT-1R) after launch. The Naval Research Laboratory
(NRL-Monterey) will demonstrate the impact of assimilating all
available global geostationary fire products (GOES, MSG, MTSAT-1R) into
the operational Navy Aerosol Analysis and Prediction System (NAAPS) to
diagnose and predict aerosol loading and transport.
(E. Prins, E/RA2,
530-271-2256)<>
Significance: The workshop and proposed demonstration study
addresses requests from the international environmental monitoring and
scientific research communities to utilize operational satellites to
produce routine global fire products and to ensure long-term stable
records of fire activity for applications in areas such as
land-use/land-cover change analyses, global change research, trace gas
and aerosol monitoring, air quality, and hazards. Fires and
emissions affect local and regional weather as well as climate and can
have a significant impact on transportation. Participation in
this effort emphasizes NOAA's commitment to the Integrated Global
Observing Strategy (IGOS) and highlights significant research and
operational activities in global fire monitoring within NESDIS.
Supports the following NOAA Mission Goals:
- Understand climate variability and change to enhance society’s
ability to plan and respond.
- Serve society's needs for weather and water information.
- Support the Nation's commerce with information for safe, efficient,
and environmentally sound transportation.
Supports the following NOAA Cross-Cutting Priorities:
- Integrated Global Environmental Observation and Data Management
System
- International Cooperation and Collaboration
ITEMS FOR THE OFFICE DIRECTOR, ORA:
ITEMS FOR THE DIVISION CHIEF, ARAD
Telecon with Office of Weather and Air Quality
on Air Quality Collaborations: E. Prins participated in a
telecon with S. Kondragunta and S. Fine (NOAA’s Office of Weather and
Air Quality in the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) to
discuss collaborative efforts in air quality monitoring and
modeling. There was agreement that the NESDIS Office of Research
and Applications (ORA) should focus on the satellite components in
collaboration with modeling efforts at Research Triangle Park and the
Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL). Initially the main research
topic areas for ORA include improving satellite-derived fire products
and emissions estimates and aerosol optical depth (AOD) products; we
discussed the possibility of utilizing ground-based and satellite
derived AOD products to improve emissions estimates. One of the
largest unknowns in air quality modeling is non-standard emissions
associated with biomass burning sources in the U.S. and long-range
inter-continental transport.
(E. Prins, E/RA2,
530-271-2256)
Manuscript on Next Generation Imager Submitted:
A
manuscript entitled "Introducing the Next-generation Advanced
Baseline Imager (ABI) on Geostationary Operational Environmental
Satellites (GOES)-R" was submitted to the Bulletin of the
American
Meteorological Society. The authors are T. Schmit, M. Gunshor
(Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, CIMSS), W.
P. Menzel, J. Gurka (Office of Systems Development), J. Li
(CIMSS), Bachmeier (CIMSS). The ABI will introduce a new era in
environmental remote sensing for weather, ocean, climate, and
environmental applications with more spectral bands, faster imaging,
and
higher spatial resolution than the current GOES Imager.
(T. Schmit, E/RA2,
608-263-0291)
Abstract on GOES Cloud Product Submitted for
the 29th Climate
Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop: An abstract on Geostationary
Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Cloud Product was submitted
for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s 29th
Climate
Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop (18-22 October, 2004, Madison, WI).
The title is "GOES Cloud Products and Cloud Studies". The
authors are Anthony J. Schreiner, Timothy J. Schmit, W. Paul Menzel,
Jun
Li, James A. Jung, Steven A. Ackerman, Wayne F. Feltz, and Robert M.
Aune.
(T. Schreiner,
CIMSS,
608-263-6754)
Extended Abstracts Submitted to SPIE Conference:
Two extended abstracts were submitted to Society of Photo-optical
Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) meeting in August, 2004. They are
"Baseline instruments planned for the GOES-R series" with J. Gurka
(Office of Systems Development) and T. Schmit and "Overview of NOAA's
GOES hyperspectral sounding data, communication, and compression
activities" by R. W. Heymann (Office of Systems Development) and T.
Schmit. The two conferences, respectively, are GOES-R Instrumentation
and Preparation, and Atmospheric and Environmental Remote Sensing Data
Processing and Utilization: an End-to-End System Perspective. (T. Schmit, E/RA2,
608-263-0291)
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