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ASPB AND CIMSS WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING AUGUST 18, 2006

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Paper on Geostationary Sounder Detector Optical Ensquared Energy Published:  A paper entitled "Impact of Point Spread Function on Infrared Radiances from Geostationary Satellites" has been published in the August issue of IEEE Transaction on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.  Co-authors are Peng Zhang, Jun Li, Erik Olson (CIMSS), Timothy J. Schmit (STAR), Jinlong Li (CIMSS) and W. Paul Menzel (STAR).  The paper can be accessed from the following link: ftp://ftp.ssec.wisc.edu/ABS/publications/IEEE_PSF_Aug2006.pdf.(Jun Li, CIMSS, Jun.Li@ssec.wisc.edu, 608 / 262 - 3755)

Satellite-Derived Products Support National Weather Service (NWS) Forecasters: Satellite products produced in near-real time at the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) are now being inserted into the Central Region Headquarters (CRH) and Southern Region Headquarters (SRH) National Weather Service Local Data Manager (LDM) for viewing using the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS).  The high resolution MODIS data and products are generated using CIMSS direct readout data ingested and produced automatically.  The products are distributed in a timely enough manner to make them useful for short term forecasters.  Three times in the past week, MODIS CIMSS products (in this case the 1 km Sea Surface Temperature (SST) product) were used to assist NWS forecasters at the Sullivan, Wisconsin Forecast Office.  The data and products that are being inserted into the LDM are MODIS bands 1 (.68 micron), 26 (1.38 micron), 7 (2.1 micron), 20 (4.0 micron), 27 (6.5 micron) and 31 (11 micron), Cloud Top Temperatures, Cloud Phase, Sea Surface Temperatures and  Total Precipitable Water Vapor.     (K. Strabala, CIMSS, 608-263-8752)

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
245 PM CDT SAT AUG 12 2006
.DISCUSSION... THIS TIME OF YEAR
TRICKY WITH MINIMUM TEMPERATURES AND WARM LAKE TEMPERATURES WITH
ONSHORE WINDS.  EXPECT LAKESHORE AREAS TO BE A LITTLE WARMER WITH
MODIS LAKE SURFACE TEMPERATURES NEAR 70.  THE 1 KM MODIS IMAGERY HAS
BEEN VERY INTERESTING SHOWING THE NARROW COOL UPWELLING AREAS ON THE
EAST SHORE.  THIS IMAGERY WILL BE USEFUL IN DETAILING THE TRANSITION
INTO AND OUT OF UPWELLING COOLING AND WHEN EAST WINDS PUSH WARMER
SURFACE WATERS ACROSS WESTERN SHORE...AT LEAST WHEN SKY`S ARE
CLEAR.

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Figure caption: The MODIS 1km Sea Surface Temperature (SST) image from 12 August 2006.  This product is among several products that are being generated automatically with each overpass of the EOS  MODIS instrument which flies onboard the Aqua and Terra Polar Orbiting Satellites, and inserted into the National Weather Service LDM data stream for viewing using AWIPS.

ITEMS FOR THE DIVISION CHIEF, CoRP

CoRP Science Symposium:  Tim Schmit and Andy Heidinger attended the recent NOAA/NESDIS/STAR Cooperative Research Program (CoRP) Science Symposium held in Fort Collins, Colorado.  The focus of the meeting was on NOAA's advanced satellite instruments.  The goal of the meeting was to foster collaboration among the cooperative institutes.  Tim Schmit gave an overview of GOES-R and Andy Heidinger presented an overview of NPOESS cloud products. (A. Heidinger, E/RA2, 608-263-6757, andrew.heidinger@noaa.gov; T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291)

SPIE Data Compression Conference: T. Schmit and Bormin Huang (CIMSS) attended the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) Conference on Satellite Data Compression, Communications and Archiving, held in San Diego, CA, 13-17 August. Schmit gave a talk entitled "Introducing datasets for next generation geostationary imager compression studies". Huang's compression team presented 6 papers entitled "An Optimal Unequal Error Protection Scheme with Turbo Product Codes for Wavelet Compression of Ultraspectral Sounder Data", "Burst Error Performance of 3DWT-RVLC with Low-Density Parity-Check Codes for Ultraspectral Sounder Data Compression", "Adaptive VQ-based Linear Prediction for Lossless Compression of Ultraspectral Sounder Data", "Lossless Compression of 3D Ultraspectral Sounder Data Using the Prediction-Based Lower Triangular Transform", "Ultraspectral Sounder Data Compression Using a Novel Marker-Based Error-Resilient Arithmetic Coder", and "Preliminary Lossless Compression Results with Michelson Interferometer Data". (T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291, tim.j.schmit@noaa.gov; B. Huang, CIMSS, 608-265-2231)

Proposal Review: J. Key reviewed a proposal on snow observations during the International Polar year for the National Science Foundation. (J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605, jeff.key@noaa.gov)

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