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ASPB AND CIMSS WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING MAY 26, 2006
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THE PRESS:
ITEMS
FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR:
ITEMS FOR THE ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR:
ITEMS FOR THE OFFICE DIRECTOR, STAR:
EUMETSAT Cloud Workshop:
Andrew Heidinger attended a cloud remote sensing workshop hosted by
EUMETSAT in the Swedish town of Kolmarden. The workshop was
focused on comparing the various operational cloud products from the
SEVIRI instrument on the Meteosat Second Generation series of
geostationary satellites. Each participant provided data that was
analyzed prior to the meeting. Results from each algorithm were
discussed and a workshop report is being generated. A. Heidinger
provided cloud products from NOAA's operational satellite
imagers. A. Heidinger also visited the Swedish Meteorological and
Hydrological Institute (SMHI) in Norrkoping, Sweden. (A. Heidinger,
E/RA2,
608-263-6757, andrew.heidinger@noaa.gov)
ITEMS FOR THE DIVISION CHIEF, CoRP
GOES Sounder Paper on Soil
Wetness Accepted: A note, entitled "Estimating Soil
Wetness from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
(GOES) Sounder" has been accepted by the Journal of Atmospheric and
Oceanography Technology. The authors are R. M. Rabin of the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/National Severe Storms
Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma and T. Schmit. The note demonstrates how
the time tendency of the GOES Sounder skin temperature is negatively
corrected with soil wetness and plant health. In general, regions of
fair to poor vegetation health correspond to the relatively high
temperature rise derived from the satellite data. (T. Schmit, E/RA2,
608-263-0291, tim.j.schmit@noaa.gov)
GOES-N VisitView Lesson Posted: Audio was added to a Virtual Institute for Satellite
Integration Training (VISIT) View "mini" lesson on the Geostationary
Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-N. This stand-alone
VISITview lesson reviews the improvements on the GOES-N imager and
sounder. This includes imaging during eclipse, better radiometrics and
improved navigation performance. This lesson has been posted to the
GOES-N NOAA Post Launch Test (PLT) page
at: http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/projects/goes_n/.
(T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291, tim.j.schmit@noaa.gov)
Manuscript Review: R. Aune reviewed a manuscript for the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
(R.Aune, E/RA2, 608-262-1071, robert.aune@noaa.gov)
Other Meetings and Telecons:
(None)
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