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ASPB AND CIMSS WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING APRIL 25, 2009

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ITEMS FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR:

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ITEMS FOR THE OFFICE DIRECTOR, STAR:

CIMSS Board Meeting: The Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) held an Executive Board meeting on Tuesday, April 21, 2009. The Executive Board of CIMSS has the following responsibilities: 1) to make recommendations to the Dean of the Grad school for the Directorship of CIMSS, 2) to review and approve the policies, research themes, and priorities of CIMSS, 3) to prepare an annual evaluation of CIMSS programs and activities, with appropriate recommendations, 4) to review the CIMSS budget, 5) to approve the appointment of members of the CIMSS Science Council, 6) to review and approve such further implementing agreements as defined in the Memorandum of Understanding. In attendance were Drs. Al Powell, Franco Einaudi, Lelia Vann, Ramesh Kakar, Jonathan Martin, Hank Revercomb, Jeff Key, and Martin Cadwallader. A final report will be posted on the CIMSS web page soon. (S. Ackerman, CIMSS, 608-263-3647; T. Achtor, CIMSS, 608-263-4206; J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605, jkey@ssec.wisc.edu)

ITEMS FOR THE DIVISION CHIEF, CoRP:

PhD Candidate Graduated Under Support of GIMPAP Program: Zhenglong Li passed his PhD defense on March 30, 2009, in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences department. Li's research is part of the GOES Improved Measurements and Product Assurance Plan (GIMPAP) program at Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS). His dissertation, "Improvements and Applications of Atmospheric Soundings from Geostationary Platform", focused on the improvement of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) soundings in clear skies and the extension of the GOES sounding product to cloudy situations. The benefits of cloudy soundings to severe storm nowcasting is demonstrated in the thesis. (Jun Li, 608-262-3755, Jun.Li@ssec.wisc.edu; Zhenglong Li, 608-890-1982, Zhenglong.Li@ssec.wisc.edu)

New Radiative Transfer Model Coefficients Supplied to NESDIS: Two new sets (42 and 101 levels) of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) radiative transfer model coefficient files have been transferred from the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) to the NESDIS Operational Products Development Branch (OPDB). These files are used for various radiative transfer computations involving the GOES-8, -9, -10, -11, -12, -13, -O(14) and -P(15) Sounder and Imager instruments. The only difference between this set of coefficient files and a previous set supplied in December 2008 is that an updated spectral response function was used to compute new coefficients for GOES-13 Imager band 6 (13.3um). All other satellite coefficients should be identical to the December 2008 coefficients. (J. Nelson, CIMSS, 608-263-6013, M. Gunshor, CIMSS, 608-263-1146, H. Woolf, CIMSS, 608-262-0986, T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291, tim.j.schmit@noaa.gov)

Simulated ABI dataset provided to the GOES-R AIT: As part of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-R Algorithm Working Group (AWG) imagery team, a set of the 16-bands of the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) were provided to the GOES-R Algorithm Integration Team (AIT). This dataset, from 22 UTC on June 4, 2005, is unique in that it has been re-cast in the form of Scaled Integers (SI). The un-scaling coefficients are included in the Network Common Data Form (NetCDF). The simulated data is from the AWG Proxy team. (K. Baha, CIMSS, 608-262-4472; T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291, tim.j.schmit@noaa.gov)

Version 2 Fog and Sulfur Dioxide Algorithms Delivered: Version 2 of the GOES-R fog detection code along with Version 2 of the sulfur dioxide detection code were delivered to the GOES-R Algorithm Implementation Team (AIT) this week. These codes were recently updated to be compliant with STAR coding standards. In addition, validation results indicate that these algorithms are on track to meet the accuracy specifications. (M. Pavolonis, E/RA2, 608-263-9597, Mike.Pavolonis@noaa.gov, W. Straka III, CIMSS, C. Calvert, CIMSS)

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