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ASPB AND CIMSS WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING JUNE 24, 2005
IN THE PRESS:
ITEMS FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR:
ITEMS FOR THE ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR:
ITEMS FOR THE OFFICE DIRECTOR, ORA
CIMSS Board of
Directors Meeting: The Cooperative Institute for
Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) held its annual Board of
Directors meeting on June 22. Board members include
representatives from NOAA, NASA, and the University of Wisconsin.
Eric Bayler (STAR) attended on behalf of NESDIS. Jeff Key,
as head of the Advanced Satellite Products Branch (ASPB), also
attended. Presentations were given by NESDIS (Eric Bayler), NASA
(Jack Kaye), and UW (Martin Cadwallader, Dean of the Graduate School).
Highlights of science activites were presented by Steve Ackerman,
CIMSS Director, in a "State of CIMSS" address to the Board and general
public. (J. Key, E/RA2,
608-263-2605, jeff.key@noaa.gov, S. Ackerman, CIMSS,
608-263-3647)
First Weather Panel
meeting on National Research Council Decadal Study for NASA/NOAA: The
panel on Weather is one of seven National Research Council (NRC, part
of the National Acadamies) committees meeting to deliberate on the
issues and potential Earth science missions that NASA and NOAA should
consider as high priority in the coming decade and beyond. The first
meeting of this panel was held in Boulder, Colorado, June 22-23. In
addition to atmospheric weather issues, space weather and chemical
weather are also under the purview of this panel. Selected speakers
will brief the panel on issues and missions of interest, and the panel
will consider over 50 "responses for information" from the community.
These responses include novel ideas, potential innovations, and
promising technologies that might result in NASA missions and NOAA
transition to operations over the next decade or two. The panel will
meet again in late August in Irvine, California. (C. Velden, CIMSS,
608-262-9168)
ITEMS
FOR THE DIVISION CHIEF, ARAD
Paper on
Overlapping Clouds Accepted to the Journal of Climate: A paper
by A. Heidinger and M. Pavolonis titled "Global Daytime Distribution of
Overlapping Cirrus Cloud from NOAA's Advanced Very High Resolution
Radiometer” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Climate. This work
applies a recently developed algorithm to derive one of the first
global depictions of the occurrence of multi-layer cloud from a
satellite. The technique has been expanded for application to NPOESS
and GOES-R data. A more complete climatology that includes the
occurrence of multi-layer cloud is being developed under the AVHRR
Pathfinder Atmospheres Extended (PATMOS-x) project. (A. Heidinger,
E/RA2, 608-263-6757; M. Pavolonis, CIMSS, 608-263-9597)
Radiative Transfer
Coefficient Files Provided to NESDIS: In preparation
for the launch and subsequent processing of data from Geostationary
Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-N, Cooperative
Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) personnel
provided a set of six binary coefficient files to scientists at the
National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
(NESDIS) in Washington, D.C. These files will be used for
such basic tasks as conversion between radiance and brightness
temperature, and computation of atmospheric transmittance that is
needed when computing top-of-atmosphere radiance (J.
Nelson, CIMSS, 608-263-6013, M. Gunshor, CIMSS, 608-263-1146, T.
Schmit, E/RA2,
608-263-0291, tim.j.schmit@noaa.gov)
VISITview
Lesson Given on GOES-N/O/P: T. Schmit gave a successful
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-N/O/P Virtual
Institute for Satellite Integration Training (VISIT)view module on June
24, 2005. The module covers the similarities and differences between
the current GOES series and what GOES-N and -O will offer.
Representatives attended from the National Weather Service (NWS)
(Headquarters, Office of Climate and the San Antonio, TX
office), National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information
Service (NESDIS), the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological
Satellite Studies (CIMSS), and the Cooperative Institute for Research
in the Atmosphere (CIRA). (T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291,
tim.j.schmit@noaa.gov)
Other Meetings and Telecons:
(None)
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