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ASPB AND CIMSS WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING MAY 27, 2005
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THE PRESS:
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FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR:
ITEMS
FOR THE ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR:
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FOR THE OFFICE DIRECTOR, ORA
ORA IT
Infrastructure Study Group Meeting: Anthony Schreiner of the
Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) took
part in the Office of Research and Applications (ORA) Information
Technology (IT) Infrastructure Study during the week of May 16-20, 2005
at the NOAA Science Center in Camp Springs, MD.The task of this
study group is to determine the requirements for the ORA IT
Infrastructure that will serve the ORA research community and its
partners in the future. Following a week long discussion of
recommendations and goals for ORA IT, a report will be written and
submitted to ORA management by the study group. In addition to
participants from ORA and CIMSS other organizations represented
included the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere
(CIRA), Scripps Institute at the University of California - San Diego,
the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
(NPOESS) Data Exploitation (NDE) project, and Earth Resources
Technology (ERT), Inc. (T. Schreiner,
CIMSS,
608-263-6754)
Manuscript on
MODIS/AIRS Cloud-clearing Published: The manuscript
entitled "Optimal cloud-clearing for AIRS radiances using MODIS" has
been published in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
June issue, 2005. Co-authors are Jun Li, Chian-Yi Liu, Allen
Huang (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies,
CIMSS), Tim Schmit (ORA), Xuebao Wu (CIMSS), Paul Menzel (ORA), and
James, J. Gurka (OSD). The paper is available electronically at
ftp://ftp.ssec.wisc.edu/ABS/publications/IEEEtgrs_cloud_clearing_Li_2005.pdf.
(J. Li, CIMSS, 608-262-3755)
ITEMS
FOR THE DIVISION CHIEF, ARAD
Water Vapor Sensing
System-II Validation Meeting: W. Feltz, R. Petersen, and Erik
Olson, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
(CIMSS), attended a Water Vapor Sensing System (WVSS) - II Validation
meeting in Louisville, Kentucky on May 12, 2005 to discuss
deployment of the University of Wisconsin mobile atmospheric validation
platform (AERIBAGO). The WVSS-II experiment will be conducted at
the Louisville, Kentucky airport from June 13-24, 2005 to validate
the accuracies of WVSS-II instrumentation, which measures water vapor
using a laser diode, mounted on United Parcel Service aircraft.
The vertical water vapor profiles from this aircraft instrument will be
compared to radiosondes, the Atmospheric Emitted Radiance
Interferometer (AERI) retrievals, Geostationary Operational
Environmental Satellite (GOES) retrievals, and global positioning
system receiver water vapor. (W. Feltz/R. Petersen, CIMSS,
608-265-6283)
Other Meetings and Telecons:
(None)
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