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ASPB AND CIMSS WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING MARCH 10, 2006
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FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR:
ITEMS FOR THE ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR:
ITEMS FOR THE OFFICE DIRECTOR, STAR:
Publications of Applications of GOES Fire Data:
Over the past 5 years Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
(GOES) Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm (ABBA) fire data have been
utilized in a variety of environmental applications. In South
America GOES ABBA data were used to show that designating land as
reserves and indigenous lands results in a significant reduction in
both deforestation and fire. A summary of this study titled
"Inhibition of Amazon deforestation and fire by parks and indigenous
lands" was recently published in Conservation Biology (Volume 20, No.
1, 65-73). The manuscript titled "Mesoscale modeling of Central
American smoke transport to the United States: Top-down assessment of
emission strength and diurnal variation impacts" was recently published
in the Journal of Geophysical Research (Volume 111, D05S17). It
summarizes the application of hourly smoke emissions derived from the
GOES Wildfire ABBA (WF_ABBA) to numerically simulate Central American
biomass burning smoke transport to the Southeastern U.S. in the spring
of 2003. E. Prins serves as a co-author on these publications.
(E. Prins, CIMSS Consultant, 530-271-2256, C. Schmidt, CIMSS,
608-262-7973)
CoRP Division Chief Visits CIMSS:
Ingrid Guch, the Cooperative Research Program (CoRP) Division Chief,
made her first visit to the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological
Satellite Studies (CIMSS) in Madison, Wisconsin on Thursday, March 9.
Ms. Guch met with the Advanced Satellite Products Branch, the
CIMSS Director (S. Ackerman), one of the Space Science and Engineering
Center (SSEC) Executive Directors (J. Roberts), and a variety of CIMSS
scientists. (J. Key, E/RA2,
608-263-2605, jeff.key@noaa.gov)
ITEMS
FOR THE DIVISION CHIEF, CoRP
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Course Lectures: R.
Aune gave two lectures for the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Department (AOS), University of Wisconsin graduate course AOS 650:
Analysis of Atmospheric Systems. His first lecture reviewed
applications of satellite observations in objective analysis
methodologies. The second lecture covered the topic of using
observations from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
(GOES) to guide the development of mesoscale prediction models and to
validate model forecasts. Future trends in space-based remote
sensing were also presented. (R.Aune, E/RA2,
608-262-1071, robert.aune@noaa.gov)
Other Meetings and Telecons:
(None)
VISITORS:
NEXT WEEK:
T. Schmit will travel to Washington DC. March 16th will be spent in
Silver Spring, MD talking to various National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) National Environmental Satellite, Data, and
Information Service (NESDIS) and National Weather Servic (NWS) people.
March 17th will be spent in the NOAA Science Center where a SaTellite
Applications and Research (STAR) seminar will be given and a
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-type Sounding
Product Oversight Panel (SPOP) meeting will be convened. The title of
the seminar is "GOES: Current (10/12/11/N/O/P) to Future (GOES-R+)".
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