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ASPB AND CIMSS WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 24, 2004
IN THE PRESS:
ITEMS FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR:
ITEMS FOR THE ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR:
ITEMS FOR THE OFFICE DIRECTOR, ORA
AMS Conference on Satellite Meteorology and
Oceanography: The
13th American Meteorolgy Society (AMS) Conference on Satellite
Meteorology and Oceanography
was held in Norfolk, Virginia September 20-23. The theme of the
conference was "Next Generation Environmental Sensors and Emerging
Applications in Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography." The single and
multi-sensor research, product development, operational applications,
and calibration/validation efforts presented at the conference showed
advances in using a broad array of new sensors in meteorological and
oceanographic applications with innovative plans for the future.
Of the 200 or so
poster presentations, 47 had authors from the
Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS)
or the NESDIS Advanced Satellite Products Branch (ASPB). The program
and links to abstracts can be found at http://ams.confex.com/ams/13SATMET/techprogram/programexpanded_240.htm.
The meeting was
organized and chaired by Elaine Prins of ASPB. Prior to the conference
a short course was held to provide an overview of current research and
next generation operational environmental satellite systems such as
NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS), the European Meteosat Second
Generation (MSG), the US National Polar-Orbiting Environmental
Satellite System (NPOESS), and GOES-R. (C. Velden, CIMSS,
608 262 9168, E. Prins, E/RA2,
530-271-2256)
ITEMS FOR THE DIVISION CHIEF, ARAD
ASPB Participation in AMS Conference: E.
Prins, J. Key, A. Heidinger and T. Schmit
participated in the 13th American Meteorological Society (AMS)
Satellite
and Oceanography conference in Norfolk, VA. Presentations covered
a
variety of subjects, including smoke effects on air quality, fire
monitoring, polar winds, clear-sky inversions, dust, global cloud
cover, arctic climate, temperature inversions, polar winds,
upper-level sulfuric dioxide, temperature and moisture retrievals,
calibration, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
(GOES)-R,
Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI), Hyperspectral Environmental Suite (HES)
and data compression. E. Prins was the conference chair. (J. Key,
E/RA2,
608-263-2605, T. Schmit, E/RA2,
608-263-0291, E. Prins, E/RA2,
530-271-2256, A. Heidinger, E/RA2,
608-263-6757)
VISIT Teletraining on DGEX: A Virtual
Institute for Satellite Integration Training (VISIT) teletraining
course on the Downscaled Global Forecast System (GFS) with Eta
Extention (DGEX) was conducted by personnel from the Virtual Institute
Satellite Integration Training (VISIT) this week. R. Aune
participated in the training. The GDEX is a software system that
uses the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Eta model
to dynamically downscale the Global Forecast System (GFS) solution by
extending the run out to 8 days using smaller domains with boundary
conditions supplied by the GFS. The hope is that the resulting
12-km grids will allow forecasters to spend less time tweaking the
extended range forecast products while producing grids that are
consistent with the topography and weather features at 5 km for the
National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD). Aune has been invited
to be on the Mesoscale Analysis Committee (MAC), sponsored by the
National Weather Service, which is tasked with designing an analysis
system that will be used to validate grids from the NDFD. (R.
Aune, E/24, 608-262-1071)
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