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ITEMS FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR:
ITEMS FOR THE ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR:
University of Wisconsin Wins CIMSS Recompete: The University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) is happy to have been awarded the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) after a competitive process. This will continue CIMSS' 30 year collaboration with NESDIS, formally transitioning to a new partnership on July 1, 2010. CIMSS will continue to study ways to improve forecasts for severe weather with data from NOAA satellites, including the future Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) and Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R series (GOES-R). (S. Ackerman, CIMSS, 608-263-3647)
Significance: NOAA supports cooperative institutes to promote research,
education, training and outreach aligned with its mission. Cooperative
institutes also coordinate resources among non-government partners
and promote the involvement of students and post-doctoral scientists in
NOAA-funded research. Scientists from the NESDIS/STAR Advanced Satellite Products Branch (ASPB) and
CIMSS will collaborate to improve satellite meteorology techniques,
which involve creating new satellite products to monitor weather and
climate, the sensors flying on-board spacecraft, and the way
environmental models process satellite data. The ASPB-CIMSS team will
also ramp up outreach and education initiatives aimed at training
students, scientists, resource managers and the public in the uses of
remotely sensed data sets and numerical models.
NOAA Misson Goal: CIMSS, in collaboration with ASPB will conduct
research to support NOAA’s mission goals of “Serve Society's Needs for
Weather and Water Information” and “Mission Support.”
NOAA Cross-Cutting Priorities: Environmental Literacy, Outreach, and Education; Organizational Excellence: Leadership, Human Capital, Facilities, Information Technology, and Administrative Products and Services
ITEMS FOR THE OFFICE DIRECTOR, STAR:
Aviation Weather Proving Ground Meeting: M.
Pavolonis (NOAA/NESDIS) attended the Aviation Weather Proving Ground
planning meeting at the Aviation Weather Center (AWC) in Kansas City,
MO. The goals of this meeting were to determine which satellite
products will be included in the Proving Ground effort, and how those
products will be made available to the AWC. The next generation
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) volcanic ash,
sulfur dioxide, and fog products, developed by NOAA/NESDIS/STAR in
collaboration with the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological
Satellite Studies (CIMSS), will be tested in operations at the AWC
during the fall of 2010. In addition, the University of Wisconsin -
CIMSS Convective Initiation product will also be included in the
Aviation Proving Ground beginning in August 2010. (M. Pavolonis, E/RA2,
608-263-9597, Mike.Pavolonis@noaa.gov, W. Feltz, CIMSS, 608-265-6283)
ECMWF-JCSDA Data Assimilation Workshop: Tom
Greenwald attended the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather
Forecast-Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (ECMWF-JCSDA)
workshop on assimilating satellite observations of clouds and
precipitation into numerical weather prediction (NWP) models held in
Reading, England. Greenwald presented the state of solar/IR radiative
transfer models used or planned for use in operational assimilation of
cloud-affected satellite radiance data. A summary of the workshop will
appear in the American Geophysical Union (AGU) EOS and selected papers
will be published in a special issue of the Quarterly Journal of the
Royal Meteorological Society (QJRMS). (T. Greenwald, CIMSS,
608-263-3629)
ITEMS FOR THE DIVISION CHIEF, CoRP:
CIMSS Director Goes to Taiwan: Steve Ackerman attended the Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting in Taipei, Taiwan. While there, he also visited two universities in Taipei: National Central University (NCU) and National Taiwan University (NTU). He gave a seminar at the National Taiwan University about the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS). He also gave two two-hour workshops on MODerate resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) using Hydra software developed at CIMSS, one at NTU and one at NCU. It was a bit challenging given the time constraint and that there were a mix of high school, undergraduate and graduate students in attendance. Steve visited the Taiwan Central Weather Bureau to see CIMSS satellite derived products at work in a forecast environment. (S. Ackerman, CIMSS, 608-263-3647)VISITORS:
Dr. Larry Carey Visits to Collaboration on GOES-R Lightning/Aviation Research: Dr. Larry Carey (University of Alabama-Huntsville) visited the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) from 30 June - 2 July 2010 to discuss possible lightning research collaborations between GOES-R Aviation, Fires, Cloud, and Imagery teams. The main purpose is to better join infrared radiance derived atmospheric properties (overshooting top detection, cloud top cooling rate, cloud phase, fire detection, turbulence) to occurrence of cloud-to-cloud lightning detection from Lightning Mapping Arrays (LMA) in Oklahoma, Alabama, Florida, and Washington DC as a proxy to future GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) applications. (W. Feltz, CIMSS, 608-265-6283)
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