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ASPB AND CIMSS WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING MAY 23, 2014

IN THE PRESS:

ITEMS FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR:

ITEMS FOR THE ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR:

ITEMS FOR THE OFFICE DIRECTOR, STAR:

Bronze Medal Ceremony: Andy Heidinger and Jeff Key (STAR, Advanced Satellite Products Branch) attended the NOAA Bronze and Distinguished Career Awards ceremony in Silver Spring, MD, May 20, 2014. Heidinger and Key were part of a group award "For the timely creation and leadership of the team to increase the scientific value of Suomi environmental data products to meet NOAA users' needs." Other award recipients in the group are Ivan Csiszar, Shobha Kondragunta, Istvan Laszlo, Anthony Reale, Marco Vargas, Menghua Wang, Yunye Yu, Xiwu Zhan, Donald Hillger, Alexander Ignatov, and Lawrence Flynn. (J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605, jkey@ssec.wisc.edu) 

ITEMS FOR THE DIVISION CHIEF, CoRP:

Visiting Scientist at National Taiwan University's Atmospheric Sciences Program: Christopher Rozoff (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies) visited National Taiwan University's Atmospheric Sciences Program in Taipei, Taiwan as part of a collaboration with scientists in the department. He presented two talks to their department, including "Relationships Between Tropical Cyclone Structure and Convective Cloud Dynamics" and "On the Strengths and Limitations of Idealized Modeling Frameworks in Tropical Cyclone Dynamics: Secondary Eyewall Formation". He also visited with scientists at Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau, National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction, and Taiwan Typhoon and Flood Research Institute. He participated in the Central Weather Bureau's Workshop on Numerical Prediction of Tropical Cyclones, which featured a number of NOAA scientists working on the NOAA Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting Model and in the Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program. (C. Rozoff, CIMSS)

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Figure caption: Some of the participants in Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau's Workshop on Numerical Prediction of Tropical Cyclones.

TEMPO Science Team Meeting: Brad Pierce attended the second annual Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) Science team meeting in Hampton, VA on May 21-22, 2014 and worked to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and NASA colleagues to define a vision for a federated network of TEMPO validation sites. TEMPO is a NASA Venture Class mission to retrieve tropospheric ozone, ozone precursors, aerosols, and clouds using ultra violet (UV) and visible radiance measurements from geostationary orbit (GEO) that will complement GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) measurements and provide improve understanding and prediction of air quality (AQ) and climate forcing. (R.B. Pierce, E/RA2, 608-890-1892, brad.pierce@noaa.gov)

Final week of GOES-14 Super Rapid Scan Operations for GOES-R Scanning: This is the final week of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-14 Imager special 1-minute (SRSOR -- Super Rapid Scan Operations for GOES-R) data collection in May. There will be data beginning again in mid-August. These data have been shown in select National Weather Service (NWS) Weather Forecast Offices (WFO), several national centers (Storm Prediction Center (SPC), Weather Prediction Center, etc.) and testbeds (Hazardous Weather Testbed). For example, the data were mentioned is several SPC Mesoscale Discussions (MD), e.g., http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/2014/md0647.html. Details (daily image center points, start times, side-by-side animations) are available at http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/srsor2014/GOES-14_SRSOR.html. See the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) Satellite Blog (http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/archives/15723) for a 'storm relative' case. (T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291, tim.j.schmit@noaa.gov; S. Bachmeier, CIMSS, 608-263-3958; S. Lindstrom, CIMSS)

VISITORS:

Visitors from the Finnish Meteorological Institute: Drs. Terhikki Manninen and Aku Riihela from the Finnish Meteorological Institute visited the Advanced Satellite Products Branch and the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) on May 21, 2014. The primary purpose of their visit was to discuss a surface albedo project that is part of the World Meteorological Organization's Sustained and Coordinated Processing of Environmental satellite data for Climate Monitoring (SCOPE-CM). Jeff Key is a co-investigator. They each gave a seminar and met with various ASPB and CIMSS scientists. (J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605, jkey@ssec.wisc.edu) 

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