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ASPB AND CIMSS WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

IN THE PRESS:

ITEMS FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR:

ITEMS FOR THE ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR:

ITEMS FOR THE OFFICE DIRECTOR, STAR:

CIMSS Products Support the Tropical Prediction Center: During the recent flurry of Atlantic hurricane activity, the NOAA Tropical Prediction Center made extensive use of satellite-derived products. Among them were algorithms used to estimate intensity, such as the Advanced Dvorak Technique, and Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU)-based methods from the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) and the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA). Analyses of shear were critical to decision making on intensity forecasts, and the shear products derived from GOES winds by CIMSS were utilized on many occasions. (C. Velden, CIMSS, 608-262-9168)

ITEMS FOR THE DIVISION CHIEF, CoRP:

Global+RSO WFABBA in Testing at Operations: Version 6.5 of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Wildfire Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm (WF_ABBA) was delivered to NESDIS Operations by the biomass burning team at the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS). The WF_ABBA, with support for processing all available data in real-time with a low latency from GOES-8/-9/-10/-11/-12/-13, Meteosat (Met)-8/-9, and Multi-Functional Transport Satellite (MTSAT)-1R, will undergo testing at NESDIS Operations before being certified as operational. WF_ABBA version 6.0 became operational in 2002 and since then has been detecting and characterizing fires on a half-hourly basis for GOES-East and GOES-West. WF_ABBA version 6.5 meets the requests for GOES Rapid Scan Operation (RSO) and global geostationary fire detection and characterization. (C. Schmidt, CIMSS, 608-262-7973, R.B. Pierce, E/RA2, 608-890-1892, brad.pierce@ssec.wisc.edu)

GOES-R Risk Reduction Annual Review: The GOES-R Risk Reduction annual review was held in the NSOF building in Suitland, MD on September 3-4, 2008. Tom Achtor (CIMSS), Allen Huang (CIMSS), and J. Key (ASPB) attended. The meeting was chaired by Ingrid Guch and Mark DeMaria (STAR).  The review covered a broad spectrum of activities in STAR, the cooperative institutes, and other NOAA entities.  (J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605, jkey@ssec.wisc.edu)

Other Meetings and Telecons:

None.

VISITORS:

NEXT WEEK:

EUMETSAT Conference Next Week: A. Heidinger and T. Schmit will participate in the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) Meteorological Satellite Conference in Darmstadt, Germany, 8-12 September 2008. The oral presentations are respectively titled "Towards a consensus calibration of the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) reflectance channels for climate studies" and "Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) derived product images: Past, present and future". (T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291, tim.j.schmit@noaa.gov)

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