CIMSS-NOAA Weekly Report [ Archive ]

CIMSS-NOAA WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING MAY 3, 2024

DATA, INFORMATION, AND USE-INSPIRED SCIENCE:

ABI CMIP File Monitoring Reported to CWG: Researchers at the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) introduced a web page for monitoring the metadata contents of the GOES-R Series Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Cloud and Moisture Imagery Product (CMIP) file contents for data quality and research purposes. The page can be used to dynamically display the mean, minimum, maximum, and standard deviation of CMIP values (reflectance factor or brightness temperature) as reported in the ground system generated netCDF files. These can be compared to the values from level-1b radiance files, plotted as a time series, and the user has control over the dates and times, satellite, band, and product displayed. The total solar eclipse from April 8, 2024 yielded interesting results in mean over the contiguous United States (CONUS) sector and these results were presented to the GOES-R Calibration Working Group (CWG) to remind the team that the website is available for use and to highlight the impacts on the data that the moon's shadow had. Visit the web page at https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes-r/abi-/cmip_stats. (M. Gunshor, CIMSS, matg@ssec.wisc.edu, T. Schmit, E/RA2, 608-263-0291, tim.j.schmit@noaa.gov).

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Figure: Time series of GOES-16 ABI band 2 (0.64um) visible mean reflectance factors for CONUS on April 8, 2024, highlighting the impacts of the passage of the shadow of the moon during the total solar eclipse between approximately 17:00 to 20:00 UTC. Figure courtesy of CIMSS website: https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes-r/abi-/cmip_stats. 

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TRAVEL AND MEETINGS:

TRAINING AND EDUCATION:

CIMSS provides satellite training for the Civil Air Authority in Muscat Oman: Scott Lindstrom from the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) gave two 3-hour Zoom Sessions, on 29 and 30 April, on Tropical Cyclone-related topics to members of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) in Muscat Oman. This was a follow-up to in-person training that occurred in mid-November 2023. Topics included the CIMSS Tropical Website and how products there can be used, Dvorak Analysis, Microwave Data, Storm Surge modeling, numerical modeling of Tropical Cyclones, and recent tropical products developed using Machine Learning tools. The training sessions were recorded, and videos and PowerPoints were supplied to the CAA after the Zoom sessions concluded. (S. Lindstrom, CIMSS, 608 263 4425)

MEDIA INTERACTIONS AND REQUESTS:

SOCIAL MEDIA AND BLOG Posts:

SSEC and CIMSS Scientists in the News: SSEC and CIMSS Scientists in the news: Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) and the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) provide expert interviews, imagery and case studies to promote science and satellite imagery. This week: 1) CIMSS Satellite Blog contributors Scott Bachmeier and Scott Lindstrom published the following case studies: "Severe thunderstorms across Nebraska and Iowa" (Apr. 26), "Another explosive eruption of Mount Ruang in Indonesia" (Apr. 29) and "30-second imagery of severe thunderstorms over Oklahoma and Kansas" (Apr 30). Read more at the CIMSS Satellite Blog: https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/. (S. Lindstrom, CIMSS, 608-263-4425; S. Bachmeier, CIMSS; E. Verbeten, SSEC, 608-263-4206)

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Figure: Himawari-9 Infrared image of the volcanic umbrella cloud produced by an eruption of Mount Ruang in Indonesia on April 29, 2024.

PUBLICATIONS:

Paper Published on Changes in Global Tropical Cyclone Risk: A paper entitled "A Global Increase in Nearshore Tropical Cyclone Intensification" was published in the American Geophysical Union journal Earth's Future. Jim Kossin (SSEC) was a co-author with Karthik Balaguru, Chuan-Chieh Chang, L. Ruby Leung, Samson M. Hagos, and Wenwei Xu (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Gregory R. Foltz (NOAA/Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory), Michael F. Wehner (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), and Mingfang Ting (Columbia University). The paper is open-access and available at https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2023EF004230. (J. Kossin, SSEC, jpkossin@wisc.edu)

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