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Art from Above: “Satellites See Wisconsin” at the Madison Airport: Dozens of satellite pictures of Wisconsin and neighboring areas are on prominent display at Madison's Dane County Regional Airport in an exhibit titled “Satellites See Wisconsin”. The exhibit, organized by UW-Madison's Tandem Press in conjunction with a 15-member team from the UW-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC), features themes of weather, the seasons, landscapes, and water, all with a focus on the Badger State. Featured in the exhibit is a timeline showing the historical development and use of satellite imagery by Wisconsin scientists, a three-dimensional globe, and a model of Explorer 7 (the world’s first weather satellite). There is also a video display of current weather as seen from space, including a full disk Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) image. More information can be found at: http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/media/spotlight/seewisconsin/seewisconsinpix.html, http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/airportexhibit/, and http://www.news.wisc.edu/18937. The exhibit will run until 9 September 2011. (S. Batzli, CIMSS, 608-263-3126, sam.batzli@ssec.wisc.edu; S. Ackerman, CIMSS, 608-262-3647, steve.ackerman@ssec.wisc.edu; T. J. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291, tim.j.schmit@noaa.gov; G. S. Wade, E/RA2, 608-263-4743, gary.s.wade@noaa.gov)

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Figure caption: The “Satellites See Wisconsin” Exhibit fills the Madison, WI Dane County Regional Airport Art Court. (Credit: Mark Hobson) 

CIMSS participates in Tri-Agency Climate Change Education Meeting: NOAA, NASA and NSF held an unprecedented tri-agency meeting February 28th through March 2nd on the important topic of climate change education. Over 150 projects were represented, including two from the Cooperative Institute on Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS): a NASA funded project for science teachers called "Climate Literacy Ambassadors" (http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/education/cla/) and a NOAA funded project to support museum docents called "Interpretation of Real-Time and Climate Data for Spherical Displays" (http://sphere.ssec.wisc.edu/). The agencies goal of facilitating coordination and collaboration among projects was a huge success. Attendees left recharged, better informed and much better equipped to engage and educate key audiences on climate-related challenges facing the planet. (M. Mooney, CIMSS, 608-265-2123)

PATMOS-x Aerosol Climatology Paper Published: Tom Zhao of the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) published a paper with Andrew Heidinger (STAR) and Ken Knapp (NCDC) on the aerosol climatology derived from NOAA's Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR). The paper, titled "Long-term trends of zonally averaged aerosol optical thickness from operational satellite AVHRR instrument", appears in the Meteorological Applications Journal published by the Royal Meteorological Society. The study used data from the NOAA Atmospheric Pathfinder Extended (PATMOS-x) data set. The results indicated that there are some zones where the aerosol trends over the last 30 years are significant beyond the 95% confidence level. (A. Heidinger, E/RA2, 608-263-6757, andrew.heidinger@noaa.gov)

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Paper on hurricane rapid intensification accepted: The manuscript "New probabilistic forecast models for the prediction of tropical cyclone rapid intensification" has been accepted at the journal Weather and Forecasting. The authors are Chris Rozoff (CIMSS) and Jim Kossin (NOAA/NCDC). (J. Kossin, NCDC, 608-265-5356)

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