2008
12 December 2008
Topics
A. “Big Picture” Events
B. SSEC, the Center
C. Education & Public Outreach
D. Our Science & Engineering
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A. “Big Picture” Events
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Center Financial Health
NASA Authorization
National Administration
“Transition Document”
Climate activities in the Center
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It’s the Economy, Stupid
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World-wide, the economy is bleak. Dah!
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do we expect for the Center?
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SSEC spending level is stable
(and our cash balance remains stable too)
Dollars (M$)
SSEC Annual Spending (SFY)
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Fortunately, we have not suffered a crash
But we need everyone to keep up the great work,
and to be ready to respond to new challenges
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2008 Spending by Source: ~ $23.0 M
Other* DODDOE
10% 2% 3%
NASA
22%
NSF
23%
NOAA
40%
*includes MUG & SAIC
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Primary Center Support Agencies:
General Statements
‹ Foresee
no evidence for long-term plan to
reduce NASA, NOAA, and NSF funding
‹ In fact, discussions of enhancing international
competitiveness & leadership often involve
increases in these areas
– Senate proposed an NSF increase of 13% in FY09 in
support of last year’s America Competes Act
– NASA Authorization bill shows positive change that
involves NOAA too
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course, it is hard to rule out short-term
decreases, given the depth of the recession, but
the long-term picture is still excellent
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2008 NASA Authorization Bill
A positive note, but not appropriations
Science 1st detailed chapter (Title) of 10
‹ Positive general policies:
‹ Earth
– (5) NASA should assume a leadership role in a cooperative international Earth
observations and research effort to address key research issues associated with climate
change and its impacts on the Earth system.
– (9) NASA’s scientific research activities have contributed much to the advancement of
knowledge, provided societal benefits, and helped train the next generation of scientists and
engineers, and those activities should continue to be an important priority.
– (10) NASA should make a sustained commitment to a robust long-term technology
development activity.
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Authorization of Appropriations
– Total:
$20.2 B
(considerably above $17.8-9 June Appropriations Committee budgets and $17.1 FY08)
– Science:
$4.9 B
Earth
$1.5 B
Planetary $1.5 B
– Education:
$0.13B
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outcome for FY09: Continuing resolution-March
(H.R.6063 became law on 15 October 2008)
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Earth Sciences:
2008 NASA Authorization
Given High Priority
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SEC. 202. GOVERNANCE OF UNITED STATES EARTH
OBSERVATIONS ACTIVITIES.
– OSTP (Office of Science & Technology Policy) responsible for study to
determine most appropriate governance structure for earth obs programs
involving NASA, NOAA & National Academies
– Report to Congress and implementation plan due in < 2 years
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SEC. 203. DECADAL SURVEY MISSIONS.
– NASA submit implementation plan Congress ( in <270 days)
– Can consider (1) dedicated NASA missions, (2) multi-agency missions,
(3) international cooperative missions, (4) data sharing,
(5) commercial data buys, or (6) long-term technology development…..
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SEC. 204. TRANSITIONING EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH INTO
OPERATIONAL SERVICES.
– It is the sense of the Congress that experimental NASA sensors and missions that
have the potential to benefit society if transitioned into operational monitoring
systems be transitioned into operational status whenever possible
– OSTP, in coordination with NASA & NOAA Admin, to develop process
– NASA & NOAA shall transmit a transition plan to Congress within 60 days of
successful mission completion or sensor CDR
(H.R.6063 became law on 15 October 2008)
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Earth/Space Sciences:
2008 NASA Authorization
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SEC. 208. TORNADOES AND OTHER SEVERE STORMS.
– The Administrator shall ensure that NASA gives high priority to those parts
of its existing cooperative activities with NOAA that are related to the study of
tornadoes and other severe storms, tornado-force winds, and other factors
determined to influence the development of tornadoes and other severe storms,
with the goal of improving the Nation's ability to predict tornados and other
severe storms.
– Further, the Administrator shall examine whether there are additional
cooperative activities with NOAA that should be undertaken in the area of
tornado and severe storm research.
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SEC. 507. ASSESSMENT OF IMPEDIMENTS TO INTERAGENCY
COOPERATION ON SPACE AND EARTH SCIENCE MISSIONS.
– National Academies assessment, with NOAA involvement
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SEC. 508. ASSESSMENT OF COST GROWTH.
– The Administrator shall enter into an arrangement for an independent external
assessment to identify the primary causes of cost growth in the large-, medium-,
and small-sized space and Earth science spacecraft mission classes, and make
recommendations as to what changes, if any, should be made to contain costs
and ensure frequent mission opportunities in NASA's science spacecraft mission
programs, with report to Congress in < 15 months.
(H.R.6063 became law on 15 October 2008)
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Transition Document submitted to
both McCain and Obama:
Issues call for Better Protection
from Climate Change and
Severe Weather
Recommendation areas include:
observations, computing, research and modeling, societal relevance,
leadership and management [Available at www.ucar.edu/td]
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SSEC Climate Activities
Subjects of next “Through the Atmosphere
‹ CLARREO
Spaceflight Mission & Studies,
Fred Best, Bob Knuteson, Hank R
‹ Strong Hurricanes Getting Stronger,
Jim Kossin
‹ Global Cloud Studies, Andy Heidinger
‹ NPP Climate Quality Evaluation of
Atmospheric Products, Liam Gumley
‹ Cloud Trends from HIRS Data, Paul Menzel
B. SSEC, the Center
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A New Engineering Connection
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Administrative Support & Facilities
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New SSEC Partnership with
Space Astronomy Lab
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SSEC and SAL have a history of collaboration
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SAL is in the midst of a transition
UW Washburn
Observatory
e.g. WIYN telescope, Kit Peak
– Name change to Washburn Observatories
to reflect activities at Washburn Observatory
WIYN, and SALT facilities
– Andrew Sheinis: New Dept of Astronomy
hire supporting instrument development core group of technical & business staff
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SSEC has agreed to support SAL with
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SAL does not plan to duplicate the
competencies found at SSEC, rather they
WIYN
engineering, business, & management staff
will fill voids so that each organization can
leverage each others core skills.
Fred Best, Mark Mulligan
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Near Infrared Spectrograph, NIR
PI: Andrew Sheinis, Dept of Astronomy & SAL
• Complement to the visible instrument already built for the
Southern African Large Telescope (SALT)
NIR
• Mounts 15m up
Visible
at focus of 11m
Instrument
primary array
• Part of 950 kg
inst package
that moves to
scan elevation
• Combines
Grating,
Fabry-Perot,
Filter-wheel
approaches
Fred Best, Mark Mulligan
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NIR Spectrograph Project with SAL
• SSEC is providing systems engineering, quality assurance
& safety, thermal design, electrical engineering, business
services, and project management support
• Preliminary Design Review passed in July 2008,
deliver to the SALT facility scheduled for Sep 2011
NIR
SALT
Visible
Camera
Fred Best, Mark Mulligan
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Administrative Support
& Facilities
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3rd Floor Support (accounting, purchasing,
financial software, personnel, payroll, travel, mail,
copy room, contracts/grants, research support)
Shipping, Receiving & Building Services
Library
Suomi Science Museum
Technical Computing
Quality Assurance and Safety
Data Center and MUG
Public Information
Web Services
Local observing systems
Thanks! Your support for Center projects
is truly amazing!
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Some Key Support People Changes
‹ Eric
Thompson in for Judy Cohen, Purchasing
‹ Mark Hobson in for Jen O’Leary, Public
Information
‹ Jerry Robaidek and Becky Schaffer in for
Dee Wade in Data Center and MUG
‹ John Roberts in for John Roberts,
Executive Director for Administration,
following Dave Allen’s example
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Dave Allen: Just happy that all of the new
things from last year are working so well
SSEC’s barcode
inventory tracking
system is a case
study on the
vendor’s website.
SSEC’s purchasing software
‹ June:
First orders received in
new system
‹ September: SSEC shows
DOIT how to do it
SSEC is the first and only group
on campus to use software that
directly interfaces with the UW
system to transmit and process
orders.
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Management Information System
• On-going effort to develop a system that will enable
tying together budgeting and planning from the
proposal / post-award period with actual
progress and spending on a project.
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NPOESS IPO was selected as a “pilot” project for the MIS:
– A product oriented work breakdown structure was developed from the 2007
and 2008 proposals.
– 22 control accounts were created for collecting costs and monitoring
progress (8 for CrIS, 7 for VIIRS, and 7 for IPOPP)
– Control accounts were further broken down to major task areas, and
annual work packages were established in each area for assigning
resources, developing budgets, and reporting progress
– Cost from 2007 were analyzed and distributed to the control accounts and
work packages
– A rudimentary Excel-based capability to integrate cost, schedule
and progress information and to produce management “exhibits” is
nearly complete.
Mark Mulligan, Paul Nipko, Tom Demke, Will Robus, Fred Best
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Personnel Update
26 New Employees (including visitors)
15 Permanent Positions opened
(13 AS and 2 Classified)
95 Student position modifications
89 Academic Title, Rate, %, etc.
Modifications
17 Visa actions
6 Retirements
265 Total counting visitors & studentsreasonably stable
Sally and Jean have been very busy!
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Equity & Diversity Committee
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We would like recognize and thank two members for their service on the
committee:
Wayne Feltz
Jean Phillips
Both were member back to the first forming of the committee in 2005.
Welcome to two new members
Eva Borbas
Mat Gunshor
The Committee has worked with the Directors to create a more
formalized procedure for work reviews to recognize staff
accomplishments and to discuss professional development. Staff will
be encouraged, but not required, to participate in reviews with their
supervisor. Some staff have already received a letter from their
supervisor.
The Committee is actively working on set of recommendations to provide
to the Directors for increasing the diversity at SSEC. It should be ready in
early 2009.
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Schwerdtfeger Library
Dan Bull, Linda Hedges, Supanida Arayametee, Jean Phillips
MGA Searches 2008
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• Library staff work with
AOS faculty to teach
students effective
research techniques
• Increased searches in
Met Abstracts
correlate with library
lectures and
individual teaching
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Atmospheric Science at NASA:
A History
• Just published:
Library staff worked
with NASA historian
• Our collections
feature heavily in the
new book, especially
Suomi archives on
satellite meteorology
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Library Collection
• The entire collection,
nearly 40,000 items
(books and journals)
is now searchable in
MadCat and
accessible
internationally
• Many e-journals
licensed to support
research: AGU &
Elsevier titles in 2008
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Library News on Paperless Journals
by Jean Phillips
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American Geophysical Union (AGU) is
probably the first important publisher in the earth
sciences to decide to stop printing its journals. By
2011, all AGU journals, except EOS, will be
online-only products. In 2002, the AGU made the
electronic journal the version of record.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries
converted all of its print subscriptions (except
EOS) to electronic access only in fall 2007. The
libraries now provide electronic access to all of its
AGU subscriptions from volume 1 to date.
AGU: The Demise of Print
(Eos Trans., AGU, v.89, no.28, p257)
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CIMSS Publishing Analysis
• Ackerman, Phillips, Bull,
Achtor studied CIMSS
publishing as one way to
assess mission success
Examined trends in
research and education
• One observation: 347
federal scientists were coauthors on 414 peerreviewed papers, 19952007
• 40% of papers with NOAA
co-authors and 24% with
NASA
• Full article submitted to
BAMS, November 2008
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CIMSS
Annual
Report
‹ Congratulations
to all for a very
impressive job
‹ Special
thanks
to Tom Achtor
for his key role
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Suomi Science Museum
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NOAA support for museum started (Paul Menzel is PI); first $100K
received and year 2 funding proposal submitted
Menzel, Phillips, & Kohrs presented at Wed Nite@the Lab to enthusiastic
audience
Aerospace industry partners contacted
Celebration of 50th anniversary of met sat experiments (Suomi’s Net Flux
Sensor) planned for November 2009
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3-D Globe Arrives at SSEC
First Suomi Science Museum Exhibit
Located in new SSEC Outreach Room (148)
Used in Outreach Programs and AOS Classes
Traveling exhibit with Interactive Kiosk
Madison Children’s Museum
UW Space Place
Experienced by over 20,000 people in 2008
Funded through the Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment
Rick Kohrs & Margaret Mooney
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Shipping, Receiving, & Building Services
Busy as Always
• 2500+ packages received, 400+ shipped, plus freight
• Moved several visitors in & out of their
short term Lodging
• Keep the Thank You pizza/candy/donuts/leftovers
coming - We appreciate it!
Goodbye to Senior Students - 10+ years between them
• Sarah - Milwaukee, Accountant at Ernst & Young
• Rob - New York City
• Caitlin - Portland, Oregon
Will Robus
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SSEC & Campus Conservation
2008 Accomplishments
• Bi-weekly meetings of the UW Campus Conservation Committee
• Strategy developed for AOSS to become an “Energy Smart Building”
• Employee Education
• Identification of Electricity Savings (lighting audit completed)
• Monitor and Identify HVAC Savings (monitors already installed)
• Participation in pilot of new UW recycling program
2009 Goals
• Reduce our collective carbon footprint
• Galvanize conservation through education & WE CONSERVE
• Promote the “I Pledge” Program
• Coordinate with AOS and CCR to reduce HVAC usage
• Implement lighting upgrades (funded by UW)
• Develop a model for other buildings on campus
• Celebrate accomplishments on or around Earth Day
JOIN US!
We meet every other Tuesday at 2pm in 1039 AOSS
an e-mail invitation will go out again in early January
Margaret Mooney
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Technical Computing Services (1)
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Snapshot of what we support:
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How many of us could
work a day without our
computers and the net?
286 Windows Computers
238 Redhat Linux
127 Macintosh OS X
46 Solaris
7 Compute clusters
"loads" of disk-based data systems (about 1,000TB)
Thanks!
Work Requests: >3000 Resolved just in the formal tracking system
Network Upgrade: Most network equipment in the building
upgraded to provide improved performance and reliability, plus some
gigabit availability to all areas. Planning and working with UW DoIT
has been ongoing since 2006 and implementation started late 2008 and
is about 30% complete.
Thanks are due to the Graduate School and DoIT Networking for
working to help meet SSEC's unusually large needs.
Scott Nolan
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Technical Computing Services (2)
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New or updated services
– Mail server Does anyone remember when there were mail server performance
problems? - Mail server replaced, with a very large performance upgrade
and centralized spam filtering added. Dealing with huge volumes of spam
has given us good experience in extremely high I/O loads - experience that
has been useful in working on cluster computing issues.
– SVN server added for another code repository option for the center
– Windows Domain Controllers replaced
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Major Data Center Projects
– Helped double the Data Center archive system from 250TB to 500TB
– Expand and Update Zara Cluster
– Helped PEATE project expand and upgrade PEATE compute clusters and
expand data store to over 200TB usable storage
– Added or replaced 15 or more servers for various projects such as AWIPS
(Jordan Gerth) and RETS (Jim Nelson) and the Data Center (Jerry
Robiadek). There are too many of these to account for all of them.
Scott Nolan
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SSEC QA & Safety Program
Krissy Dahnert & Tom Demke w/ Fred Best, Mark Mulligan, Paul Nipko & Will Robus
Project Activities
Ice Coring & Drilling Services
• DISC design documentation - released
> 1000 docs/dwgs over the last 4 yrs.
• Updated DISC hazard analyses
• Monthly WAIS Divide safety mtgs.
• Implementing safety program & quality
documentation into other projects
(RAM, 4” & Koci drills)
NIR Spectrograph
• Project Management Plan nearly
complete
• Started project Hazard Analysis
Rev. -, 12/4/08, TAD
GOES-R
• Assisted in defining deliverable needs
& addressing software coding standard
issues
• Updated project deliverable schedule &
timelines
HSR Lidar
• Compiled/submitted documentation
package for ground system
• Developed project Hazard Analysis
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SSEC QA & Safety Program (2)
Quality Initiatives
Export Control
Deliverable Management System
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Conducted ITAR training of SSEC staff
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Addressed project issues
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Implemented compliance processes
Conducting contract review to define
deliverables & when they need to be
submitted (for each project)
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Member of UW campus committee to
implement an export control program
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Reminders sent to PI/PM when deliverables
are due
Occupant Emergency Plan (OEP)
Electrostatic Discharge (ESD)
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Developed plan to control ESD in project
labs
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Updated OEP to add mass casualty &
hostage issues
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Conducted staff trainings on new
information
Quality System Documents Released
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Attended UW Police mass casualty training
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Shipping & Receiving (1008-0009)
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Corrective & Preventive Action (1008-0010)
Forum on Project Quality
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Project Safety (1008-0014)
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ESD Control (1008-0015)
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Process Inspections (1008-0022)
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ITAR (1008-0033)
Started monthly forum to discuss specific
project topics (such as proposals,
purchasing, project plans)
Rev. -, 12/4/08, TAD
Datacenter Highlights (Online Archive)
Three more geostationary satellites added
Total of twenty-five!
y Kalpana (74°E) December 2004 – Present
y FY2C (105°E) June 2005 – Present
y FY2D (86°E) August 2007 –Present
Jerry Robaidek
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Datacenter Highlights (Archive)
All GOES data back to 1978 is now online!
Available via ADDE in the next couple of months.
All NWS point & text data back to 1977 on-line soon
Available via ADDE in the next month.
1978
2008
Jerry Robaidek
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Datacenter Highlights (Real-time Users)
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Added several new data clients, one notably is Sony. They are using
the 3 hourly Infrared GLOBAL Composite created by the Data
Center to depict global clouds on the Sony PS3 in a game called
“Life with Playstation.”
Jerry Robaidek
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Datacenter Highlights (Infrastructure)
y 6th floor computer room had its ventilation/cooling system
overhauled to maximize our current cooling capabilities.
y Current system supports an enhanced distributed cooling system
scheduled to come on line in early 2009. This system will have a
75% greater capacity than the current system.
Jerry Robaidek
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Datacenter Highlights (new tools)
New Roof Antenna Web Page
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/datacenter/aerial_view/
Answers that often asked question … What do all those dishes on your roof do?
Jerry Robaidek
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Datacenter Highlights (new tools)
Remote Antenna Status
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/datacenter/
modem_signal/modem.html
Now we can check our antenna status remotely from anywhere in the world
--Helped identify snow/ice problem just yesterday!
Jerry Robaidek
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MUG (McIDAS Users' Group)
• Welcomed nine new MUG members:
3TIER (Seattle, WA)
Climatological Consulting Corporation (Palm Beach Gardens, FL)
India Meteorological Department (New Delhi, India)
India Space Applications Center (Ahmedabad, India)
ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corp. (Tokyo, Japan)
National Geo-information Centre (Ulaan-Batar, Mongolia)
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, CO)
National Space Agency/CONAE (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Weather Decision Technologies (Norman, OK)
• Continued working with the McIDAS Advisory Committee to get
feedback from MUG members on the development of McIDAS-X
and McIDAS-V - Chairman, Matthew Lazzara, AMRC
• Planning the 2009 MUG Meeting - June 2-4, 2009, at the
Edgewater Hotel in Madison
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McIDAS-X
• On-site McIDAS-X user and programmer training at 3TIER, and
in-house McIDAS-X, -XCD and SDI training for Cape Canaveral
Forecast Facility
• Annual McIDAS-X, -XRD and -XCD software upgrades and
documentation (version 2008)
• Initial release of new SDI-104 package for FY-2 satellites; also
updates for the SDI-104 GVAR, MTSAT HRIT, and POES Relay
packages
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McIDAS-V
• In-house McIDAS-V training workshops for SSEC/CIMSS/AOS
scientists and students
• Integrating HYDRA and McIDAS-X functionality into McIDAS-V,
improving the user interface, documentation, and training
manuals
• Distributed alpha versions 7 through 13 of McIDAS-V, including
DVD releases at the EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite
Conference (alpha11), the Satellite Direct Readout Conference
(alpha12), and the AGU Fall Meeting (plan to release alpha13)
• Planning the timing of the beta release of McIDAS-V to coincide
with the AMS meeting in January 2009
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McIDAS-V
GOES-R Simulated ABI Image of Hurricane Katrina
Scatter Plot – band 9-vs-14
DBCRAS
Relative Humidity loop
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Happy to have Mark onboard
in public Information
Mark Hobson
• Say Hi to Mark—Your favorite
project may make a headline
• Continuing the “Through the
Atmosphere” tradition started
by Jen O’Leary and Leanne
Avila,
co-editors
• New Issue on climate
coming soon
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New CIMSS Website
Research
organized and
sortable by
platform, theme
and alphabetical
Popular Sites
provide an easy
way to go to
your favorite
sites
News & Events
with an archive
of past news
items
“I really like what you've done!”
“Nice work!”
“The new CIMSS page looks good!”
“Certainly a nice, clean, modern look. I like the part about being able to sort a list various ways.”
Bill Bellon
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SSEC / CIMSS Web Team Additional Accomplishments
Meeting support (website logistics, online registration …)
GOES-R AWG
AMRC
HSR Infrared
ITWG/ITSC
GOES Activities at CIMSS website
(http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/)
And much more ….
PATMOS-x website
(http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/patmosx/)
Bill Bellon
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UW SSEC/Limnology Lake Mendota Buoy Project
New commercial buoy commissioned this year!
MODIS chlorophyll mapping of Lake Mendota
Bob Holz
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C. Education and Public
Outreach (EPO)
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Office of Space Science Education
(OSSE)
Earth Science EPO
International Training Workshops
Geospatial EPO in Alaska
(MapTEACH)
VISIT Training Sessions
CIMSS Satellite Blog
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OSSE: Venus E/PO Activities
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European Venus Express
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Pertzborn (PI), Limaye and Baines (JPL)
with Pi
Draft 1.0 of Curriculum Complete
Piloted Curriculum for Ali’i Teachers’
Workshop-Honolulu, HA in July
Teacher/School Followup- February 09
Proposal for continuation underway
Venus GCM
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Limaye (PI), Pertzborn and Covey (LLNL)
Teacher Workshop for Livermore Unified
School District (Livermore, CA)
Excellent feedback with 2008/09 classroom
implementation underway
Rose Pertzborn
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Juno Mission – April 2008 PDR Review
Glowing review of OSSE’s EPO
Plan for JUNO New Frontiers
Mission:
“…establishes a new benchmark
for excellence of NASA mission
E/PO”
Dr. Larry Cooper,
NASA Headquarters
Science Mission Directorate
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Rose Pertzborn
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One Earth, Many Views
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NASA ROSES Institutional
E/PO Program
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Baum (PI) & Pertzborn with Menzel,
Revercomb & Pi
Addresses Earth Science needs for
Native American Students and
Teachers in Upper Midwest
Focuses on Informal Education
through a visiting scientist program
Builds upon interests as defined by
learning audience to develop a
series of earth science modules that
are culturally relevant
Integrates NASA Earth Remote
Sensing data to support inquirybased student investigations
Will be Ph.D. research topic!!!
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(Hsuan-Yun Pi)
Rose Pertzborn
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2008 Outreach Highlights
January: AMS WeatherFest in New Orleans
February: Renovation of new Outreach Room (148)
March: 3D Globe arrives at SSEC – first in Wisconsin
April: AOSS Open House – 500 visitors!
May & June: 12 School Groups (~ 500 K-12 students)
July: Teacher Workshop on Climate Change July 9th &10th
Grandparents University July 21st & 22nd
Grandparents University July 24th & 25th
CIMSS 16th Student Workshop July 27th – 31st
August: Aeribago travels to State Fair with SSEC info table
September: 3D Globe travels to Madison Children's Museum
October: UW publishes Visitors Planning Guide specifically listing SSEC!
SSEC
November & December: 3D Globe returns to SSEC & travels to Space Place
Sincere thanks to everyone who contributed to make SECC outreach so
successful this year (3rd floor, Maria, Center Scientists, ARMC – the list goes on –
It does take a village! Sincere thanks to the Directors for our new outreach room.
Margaret Mooney
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International training continues with remote sensing courses
in Sardinia (Sep 08) and Turkey (Oct 08)
lectures / labs explore
high spatial resolution
vis / IR data (from MODIS
& SEVIRI), high spectral
resolution IR data (from
AIRS & IASI) and MW
soundings (from AMSU).
Paolo & Paul
Paul Menzel, Paolo Antonelli
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Cloud Rope: Gulf of Mexico
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D. Our Science & Engineering
What we do is divided into*
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Observe
Analyze
Apply
* Following the 2007 SSEC Booklet
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To Observe
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CLARREO IIP: Developments for
Climate Benchmark Mission
AVHRR Reflectance Calibration
NPOESS Preparatory Program Efforts
GEO Sounder Status
AIRS Water Vapor Validation
Far IR Experiment for ARM
AERI Production Starts Anew
Ice Coring & Drilling Services (ICDS)
Antarctic Meteorology Research
High Spectral Resolution Lidar
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Technology Developments for the
CLARREO Benchmark Climate Mission
NASA IIP
A New Class of Advanced Accuracy Satellite Instrumentation
(AASI) for the CLARREO Mission
OSRM
OCEM
OARS
High Performance FTS
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Efforts Toward a Consensus Historical
AVHRR Reflectance Calibration
Andrew Heidinger, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR
William Straka III and Christine Molling, CIMSS
• Assembled and compared prelaunch plus
14 post-launch calibrations from the
literature for AVHRR channels 1 & 2
(6.3 & 8.6 μm)
• Computed several types of calibration
parameters over selected targets
• Organized AVHRR/HIRS CDR Workshop,
NOAA Science Center, Camp Springs, MD
November 17-19,2008
1
0
%
10% p-p disagreement!
An example of the level of agreement among those calibrations
which have been computed for the afternoon orbit AVHRR’s.
Mean channel 1 (6.3 μm) reflectance difference over a Libyan
Desert target for July, NOAA 15-18. Difference is from the
PATMOS-X calibration computed at CIMSS.
Calibration Web Site: http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/clavr/calibration/index.html
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Calibration Parameters & MODIS transfer to AVHRR
Reference Reflectances:
Libyan Desert Target & Dome-C
Calibration Slopes:
NOAA-5 & NOAA-18
Simultaneous Nadir Overpasses:
AVHRR/AVHRR & MODIS(Aqua)/MetopA
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Exceptional
IR Sounder for NPP
SSEC was 1st to identify 2 major
flight model problems & fixes
‹
‹
CrIS
High Calibration Target (ICT)
Reflectivity (ICT replaced)
Non-linearity (LW & MW correction developed)
ICT
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Orbit: 1:30 pm
Altitude: 824 km
Polar Sun-Synch
Launch: Fall 2010
NPP VIIRS Imager
NASA climate follow-on mission to MODIS
Changes from MODIS
•
•
•
Participants: Moeller, LaPorte, Menzel
UW Goals: Assess sensor SDR and EDR
performance in prelaunch. Cal/Val in postlaunch.
Funding agents: NASA, IPO
VIIRS Data Products
Name of Product
Group
Type
Imagery *
Precipitable Water
Suspended Matter
Aerosol Optical Thickness
Aerosol Particle Size
Cloud Base Height
Cloud Cover/Layers
Cloud Effective Particle Size
Cloud Optical Thickness/Transmittance
Cloud Top Height
Cloud Top Pressure
Cloud Top Temperature
Active Fires
Albedo (Surface)
Land Surface Temperature
Soil Moisture
Surface Type
Vegetation Index
Sea Surface Temperature *
Ocean Color and Chlorophyll
Net Heat Flux
Sea Ice Characterization
Ice Surface Temperature
Snow Cover and Depth
Imagery
Atmosphere
Atmosphere
Aerosol
Aerosol
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Land
Land
Land
Land
Land
Land
Ocean
Ocean
Ocean
Snow and Ice
Snow and Ice
Snow and Ice
EDR
EDR
EDR
EDR
EDR
EDR
EDR
EDR
EDR
EDR
EDR
EDR
Application
EDR
EDR
EDR
EDR
EDR
EDR
EDR
EDR
EDR
EDR
EDR
* Key Product Performance attribute
• Telescope instead of rotating mirror
• Use of dual gain bands
• Removed CO2 bands
• Deleted Spectro-Radiometric Assembly
• Added pixel aggregation
• Guaranteed End-Of-Life Performance Spec
• Solar Diffuser Screen with Earthshine shade
Flight Unit -1 Test Status
•
Ambient phase I, II, III testing completed. TVAC
testing scheduled for 1st Q 2009.
FU-1 Test Program Progress This Year
•
•
•
•
RVS test data corrected for ambient water vapor.
FU-1 TVAC sequence now prioritizes critical tests
Test plans matured for FU-1 performance tests
GSE acceptance testing largely completed.
Next Year
•
•
•
On-site participation in FU-1 TVAC testing
Analysis/Review of FU-1 TVAC test data
Delivery of VIIRS for spacecraft integration
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Artist Impression, Phase A
EUMETSAT/ESA plan for
advanced IR Sounder
(IRS) to fly on
Meteosat 3rd Generation
(MTG) in 2017
2 December
Stephen Tjemkes Seminar,
10 2008
Dec 2008
Slide: 67 EUM/PPS/08/VWG/0152 -
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AIRS TPW Validation over SGP and TWP: 2002-2008
Diurnal TPW Difference over SGP
Blue: AIRS
Red: MWR
AIRS significantly overestimates the diurnal TPW
trend during the warmer months (May-September)
at SGP, due to a nighttime dry bias.
The bias error (for day + night) is very close to the AIRS
science team suggested error of +/- 5% for bins between 1
and 5 cm for SGP, and 3 to 7 cm for TWP. Both the upper
and right plots clearly show a significant moist bias in the
AIRS data for very low TPW cases (< 1.5 cm).
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Radiative Heating in Underexplored
Bands Campaign (RHUBC-II)
Future ARM Site
• PI: Dave Turner (DOE ARM experiment)
• Objective: Improve RT models in far-IR and other
spectral regions where WV is strongly absorbing
• Details:
• Experiment runs from 1 Aug - 30 Oct 2009
• High altitude site at 5340 m
• Anticipated PWV range: 0.10 - 0.40 mm
Measuring Mixed-Phase
Cloud Optical Depth
• Developed method to
retrieve τliq and τice in
mixed-phase clouds
from AERI
• First direct evaluation of
these retrievals using
HSRL during M-PACE
• Agreement was
excellent! (within 5% for
both ice and liquid)
Turner and Eloranta, GRSL, 2008
HSRL
AERI
HSRL
AERI
Retrieving T/q Profiles from
Passive Radiance Obs
Temperature
• T/q profiles can be retrieved from
AERI (e.g., Feltz et al) or microwave
profiler (like on our roof)
• Need to quantify the number of
independent pieces of information in
each (and together)
• Clear sky (shown here)
– AERI has 2-4 times more information
– Joint retrieval does not increase number
of pieces of info, but helps convergence
• Cloudy scenes (working on this now)
Microwave
AERI
Independent Pieces of Info
Water Vapor
Microwave
AERI
– Expect best retrieval will use both
Löhnert, Turner, Crewell, JAMC, in press
Independent Pieces of Info
ABB Bomem Delivers 1st
Next-Generation AERI
Now deployed at the NOAA SEARCH
Facility in Eureka, Canada
SSEC Validated Performance
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ICDS
• Supports US science community by
designing, building, operating and
maintaining ice drilling equipment.
• Has contributed about $21 M and
160,000 hours in services to scientists
through NSF Office of Polar Programs
during the 8½ years the contract has
been at UW.
Charlie Bentley, Don Lebar, Tony Wendrix, Alex Shturmakov
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NSF Awarded SSEC-ICDS with Two
Cooperative Agreements for 2008-2013
(Renewable)
1. Ice Drilling Design and Operation Group
- 5-year funding of $13.5 M
- Continue ICDS activities
- PI – Charles Bentley
2. Ice Drilling Program Office
- 5-year funding – $3 M (UW portion – over $1 M)
- Provide interface between science community & ICDS
- Collaborative agreement of three institutions:
UW-Madison, WI
(PI – Charles Bentley)
Dartmouth College, NH
(PI – Mary Albert)
Univ. of New Hampshire, NH (PI – Mark Twickler)
Charlie Bentley, Don Lebar, Tony Wendrix, Alex Shturmakov
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WAIS Divide Ice Core Project
• Drilled to 581m depth
in 15 days during
2007/08 season
• Plan to drill through
brittle ice this season
• The ultimate coring
depth ~ 3500m
• Expected completion
of ice coring – 2011/12
season
Charlie Bentley, Don Lebar, Tony Wendrix, Alex Shturmakov
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Other Projects
ICDS Continues to Provide Ice Drilling Services
for a Variety of Science Projects
Arctic
• McCall Glacier Alaska – Ice Cores
Antarctic
• Mount Erebus – Seismic Shot Holes
• Amundsen Basin – Seismic Shot Holes
• Norwegian - American Traverse – Ice Cores
• South Pole – Firn Air Study Holes
• Beacon Valley – Test of Koci Drill and Ice Cores
Charlie Bentley, Don Lebar, Tony Wendrix, Alex Shturmakov
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Antarctic Meteorological Research Center
Antarctic Weather Station Program
2007-2008 Field Season
Mary AWS
Kirk Beckendorf (from Blanco, TX)
- Middle School Teacher in Antarctica!
Jonathan Thom
George Weidner
Photo by Shelley Knuth
2008-2009 Field Season:
Margaret AWS
Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica
80 South 165 West (Near Roosevelt Island)
Finally installed after 3 years of trying!
Photo by Jonathan Thom
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AWS Quality Control Team
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
University of Colorado-Boulder, USA
Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan
Picnic at Chuck Stearns Farm
From left to right:
Dr. Takao Kameda
Prof. Charles Stearns
Dr. David Bromwich
George Weidner
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AMRC/AWS
Farewell:
Jonas Asuma
(at SUNY-Albany)
New Collaborations:
Dr. Taejin Choi, KOPRI
Welcome!
Nicole Schroeder
DJ Rasmussen
Lee Welhouse
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Matthew gets his PhD!
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80
HIAPER AIRCRAFT
LIDAR Development
To Analyze
1)
Cryosphere
2)
GOES-R Risk Reduction (R3) and
Product Algorithms (AWG)
3)
Clouds
4)
Temperature and WV Sounding
5)
Surface emissivity
6)
Orbit Analyses
7)
Hurricane/Tropical Cyclone Analyses
8)
Outer Planets
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MODIS True Color Image
Ice Motion (cm/s)
Ice Surface Temperature (K)
Ice Thickness (m)
Ice Concentration (%)
Ice Age/Type
MODIS Aqua Data on February 24, 2008 except ice motion
By Xuanji Wang, Y. Liu, W. Straka, and J. Key
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GOES-R: A huge CIMSS research effort
GOES-R PROGRAM OFFICE
GOES-R Program Manager Greg Mandt
We provide
AWG with near-operational
algorithms and
Technical Advisory
Committee
R3 with innovations
in analysis
GOES-R3
approaches, data systems,
and calibration
Algorithm
Development
Executive Board
Program Manager Mitch Goldberg
CHAIR – STAR DIR.
Deputy Program Manager – Jaime Daniels
Integration Team
GOES-R AWG
Algorithm
Working
Group
Program Lead – Ingrid Guck
Deputy Program Lead –Mark DeMaria
Application Teams
Development Teams
Risk
ReductionCooperative Institutes
JCSDA & Others
A $3-4 M Effort!
Wayne Feltz
Slide 84
GOES-R Software Development Process
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FY2008 CIMSS GOES-R Risk Reduction Tasks
1. Improvement of Forward Models for ABI Simulations,
Algorithm Development, and Radiance Assimilation Allen Huang, Tom Greenwald, Bob Knuteson
2. Study of the Efficient and Effective Assimilation of
GOES-R Temporal/Spatial Measurement Information
- Jason Otkin, Allen Huang
3. GOES-R Atmospheric Motion Vector (AMV) Research
- Chris Velden, Steve Wanzong
4. Hurricane Wind Structure and Secondary Eyewall
Formation - Jim Kossin
5. GOES-R Ozone Product Risk Reduction Study Jinlong Li and Jun Li
GOES-R Software Development Process
Slide 85
85
FY2008 CIMSS GOES-R Risk Reduction Tasks
6. GOES-R Sounding Algorithm Development and Risk
Reduction - Jun Li, Allen Huang, Tim Schmit
7. CIMSS Cal/Val Efforts in Support of GOES-R - Dave
Tobin, Mat Gunshor
8. GOES-RRR Fire Detection, Monitoring, and
Characterization - Chris Schmidt, Elaine Prins
9. Nearcasts - Filling the Gap Between Observations
and NWP Using Dynamic Projections of GOES
Moisture Products - Ralph Petersen, Bob Aune
10. ABI Proxy Data Studies: Regional Assimilation of
SEVIRI Total Column Ozone - Brad Pierce and Todd
Schaack
GOES-R Software Development Process
Slide 86
86
Overview of CIMSS GOES-R Algorithm Working Group (AWG)
41 CIMSS Colleagues & Allen Huang
Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
Space Science & Engineering Center
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
SSEC/CIMSS
Madison, WI
25 April 2008
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GOES-R AWG Application Teams
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•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Soundings (Tim Schmit, Jun Li)
SSEC AWG Involvement in Blue
AWG Chair listed first
Winds (Jaime Daniels, Chris Velden)
Local SSEC/CIMSS POC underlined/italics
Clouds (Andy Heidinger, Michael Pavolonis)
Aviation (Ken Pryor, Wayne Feltz)
Aerosols / Air Quality / Atmospheric Chemistry (Shobha
Kondragunta, Steve Ackerman/Chris Schmidt/Brad Pierce)
Land Surface (Dan Tarpley, Chris Schmidt/Elaine Prins)
Cryosphere (Jeff Key)
Imagery/Visualization (Tim Schmit)
SST and Ocean Dynamics (Alexander Ignatov)
Radiation Budget (Istvan Lazslo)
CIMSS is responsible
•
Lightning (Steve Goodman)
•
•
•
•
•
Space Environment (Steven Hill)
55%!
Hydrology (Robert Kuligowski)
Proxy Data (Fuzhong Weng, Allen Huang/Tom Greenwald)
Algorithm Integration (Walter Wolf, Graeme Martin/Ray Garcia)
Cal/Val (Changyong Cao, Dave Tobin)
Slide 88
for 24 of 42 algorithms
GOES-R Software Development Process
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Large-scale WRF Model Simulations Used for GOES-R
Research Activities
J. Otkin, T. Greenwald, J. Sieglaff, M. Gunshor, E. Olson, and A. Huang
• Weather Research and Forecasting
(WRF) model was used to generate
physically realistic atmospheric profile
datasets
• TOA radiances calculated using the
Successive Order of Interaction (SOI)
radiative transfer model
• Two large simulations were
performed on a supercomputer at the
National Center for Supercomputing
Applications at the University of Illinois
• Animation to the left shows
simulated 8.5 μm Tb for the Hurricane
Katrina simulation
Hurricane Katrina
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Large-scale WRF Model Simulations Used for GOES-R
Research Activities
J. Otkin, T. Greenwald, J. Sieglaff, M. Gunshor, E. Olson, and A. Huang
• Second simulation was
performed over the MSG
viewing domain
• Simulation contained
5950 x 5420 grid points
with 3-km horizontal
resolution
• Simulation required 1.5
TB of memory and
produced 16 TB of data
• Example proxy SEVIRI
10.8 μm Tb (K) image
shown to the left
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Evaluation of a WRF Model Simulation
using SEVIRI Data
J. Otkin, T. Greenwald, J. Sieglaff, M. Gunshor, E. Olson, and A. Huang
10.8 – 12.0 μm
Observed SEVIRI
Decreasing Thin
particle
Cirrus
size
Decreasing
optical
depth
Thick clouds
8.7 – 10.8 μm
Cirrus
Thin low clouds
over land
Thick water
clouds
Simulated SEVIRI
Probability
distributions
contain all
cloudy grid
points within
the full disk
domain during
a 24-hour
period
Simulated
clouds
properties are
realistic when
averaged over
the entire
domain
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Evaluation of a WRF Model Simulation
using CloudSat Data
T. Greenwald, Y.-K. Lee &
J. Otkin
Purpose:
Funded by the GOES-R AWG, this
research assesses the vertical
cloud structure in simulated
midlatitude clouds using CloudSat
reflectivity data
Simulation & Analysis:
• Large-scale high-resolution WRF
model simulation was run on16
August 2006 over MSG domain
• Cluster analysis was applied to
height-dBZ joint histograms for
midlatitude clouds over the entire
day
Key Results:
• Simulation captured vertical
structure of frontal systems and
cirrus
• Simulation produced somewhat
deeper thick cirrus and more
intense shallow precipitation than
observed
Observations Simulations
Thin
Cirrus &
stratus
Thick
Cirrus
Less
organized
cloud
systems
Frontal
system
precip
0
10
20
30 Relative frequency of occurrence (%)
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AWG Integration Team (AIT) Technical Support
Mike Pavolonis (NOAA), Maciek Smuga-Otto, Raymond Garcia,
Graeme Martin, Tom Demke (CIMSS/UW-Madison)
Team goals:
- Facilitate algorithm development & testing, standardize algorithm interfaces
- Smooth exchange of data processing software with the integration team
Primary activities:
- Develop and support algorithm testbed (GEOCAT)
- Technical interchange with AIT, standards development
- Create testing and verification tools
GEOCAT
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GEOCAT
GEOCAT can now produce 20 out of 25 Option 1 and 2
GOES-R products!
•In a demonstration given
to the head of NESDIS, 10
GOES-R algorithms (16
products), applied to a
SEVIRI domain of 1300 x
1000 pixels (~the size of
current GOES CONUS),
can be processed on a
laptop computer in 1 - 1.5
minutes!
•Adding additional
products only increases
the processing time
slightly.
M. Pavolonis and G. Martin
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M. Pavolonis and G. Martin
All of these products were produced by GEOCAT in ~ 1 minute on a labtop!
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Automated Volcanic Ash Monitoring – SEVIRI
RGB
Ash Probability
Ash
Chaiten, Chile
May 5, 2008
Plume over the
Atlantic seen by
SEVIRI
Ash Height
Ash Amount
Atmospheric corrected optical depth ratio technique can detect multilayered ash clouds
Funded by: GOES‐R AWG
Mike Pavolonis and Justin Sieglaff
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Automated Volcanic Ash Detection ‐ GOES‐I‐M
RGB
Ash Height
Ash Amount
Chaiten, Chile; May 7, 2008
as seen by GOES‐10
Quantitative ash mass loading and ash height are unique to automated algorithms
Funded by: NOAA GIMPAP
Mike Pavolonis and Justin Sieglaff
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Automated Volcanic Ash Detection ‐ PSDI
RGB
Kasatochi, Alaska; August 8, 2008
as seen by AVHRR (NOAA‐18)
Similar algorithm to GIMPAP and AWG projects; however must also account for 1.6 µm/3.9 µm daytime channel differences between various AVHRRs
Ash Detection
In 2009 we will begin global realtime testing at CIMSS, the realtime system will generate automated warning emails along with quantitative ash height and ash mass loading
Funded by: NOAA PSDI
Mike Pavolonis and Justin Sieglaff
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Using Retrieved Cloud Properties (instead of Tb, ρ)
to Quantitatively Monitor Convection
M. Pavolonis and A. Heidinger
RGB
Cloud Particle Size
Cloud Type/Phase
IR Emissivity
Cloud Optical Depth
IR Microphysics
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Nighttime Cloud Optical &
Microphysical Properties
for GOES-R
Pat Heck has integrated NASA LaRC’s
retrieval algorithm into GEOCAT.
Optical Depth
Other Projects
Roughened Ice Crystals
• Developed enhanced ice cloud property retrieval scheme
using new reflectance models that utilize roughened ice
crystals from Ping Yang.
• To be applied globally to GOES, MODIS, SEVIRI, MTSAT,
AVHRR, etc.
Differences in visible cloud reflectance between Langley
models (orig), and TX A&M smooth (r=0.0), rough (r=0.5)
and rougher (r=1.0) models.
Larger differences => potential optical depth retrieval errors
Product Examples
Using ABI
Proxy Data
CERES
Effective
Particle Size
• Paper ready for submission that describes CERES cloud
property retrieval algorithm as applied to MODIS data.
Liquid Water Path
• Edition 3 CERES cloud property retrieval algorithm for Aqua
MODIS expected to be completed Dec. ‘08.
Pat Heck
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Measuring Mixed-Phase
Cloud Optical Depth
• Developed method to
retrieve τliq and τice in
mixed-phase clouds
from AERI
• First direct evaluation of
these retrievals using
HSRL during M-PACE
• Agreement was
excellent! (within 5% for
both ice and liquid)
Turner and Eloranta, GRSL, 2008
HSRL
AERI
HSRL
AERI
GOES-R Cloud Type/Phase
Validated with A-Train Lidar
•The cloud type/phase products produced by the GOES-R AWG
Cloud Application Team were shown to agree with CALIPSO ~93%
of the time when viewing liquid water and ice clouds.
•Mixed phase cloud validation is ongoing.
Category
CALIPSO
Count
ABI Phase
Count
Percent
Agree
Percent
Disagree
Liquid
Water
4040
3969
98.24%
1.76%
Single
Layer Ice
1210
1139
94.13%
5.87%
Multilayered
Ice
2032
1649
81.15%
18.85%
Total
7282
6757
92.79%
7.21%
Water, Supercooled Water, Mixed Phase, Thick Ice, Thin Ice, Multilayered
M. Pavolonis
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2
Atmosphere PEATE for NPP
Overview
NICSE
SD3E
Ancillary Data
Providers
Sounder PEATE
Land PEATE
Ocean PEATE
EDR and SDR Evaluation
EDR/SDR Quality Assessment
Satellite/satellite comparisons
Satellite/ground comparisons
Global gridded product
comparisons
NPP Atmosphere
Science Team
Science Processing System
Compute resources
Data Storage
Relational database
I&TSE
NPP Project
Science Office
Software Development
Algorithm modification &
enhancement testing
CM & Bug tracking
Testing
Operations
Data ingest
System monitoring
Software Tools
LEOCAT
Collocation
Dynamic gridding
Visualization
IT Support
Backups
OS Installs/Updates
Security
Service and Support
Project Management
Reporting
Grant Admin
Atmosphere PEATE
Achievements to Date
• SSEC staff are actively involved in VIIRS and
CrIS and pre-launch testing
• Demonstrated software infrastructure for running
VIIRS OPS EDR algorithms on Linux (LEOCAT)
• Demonstrated VIIRS Cloud EDR evaluation
approach using CALIPSO lidar (CALIOP)
• Deployed Atmosphere PEATE Science
Processing System with 128 CPUs, >100TB disk
• Completed Critical Design Review in June 08
Liam Gumley, Hank R
Space Science and Engineering Center
University of Wisconsin-Madison
NPP Science Team Counterparts
Bryan Baum (UW): VIIRS Cloud Retrievals
Christina Hsu (GSFC): VIIRS Aerosol Retrievals
Hank Revercomb (SSEC): SDR Validation
Omar Torres (UMBC): Aerosol Validation
Paul Menzel (UW): VIIRS and heritage CDRs
Steve Platnick (GSFC): Cloud Optical Properties
Andy Heidinger (NOAA): Cloud Properties
The Atmosphere PEATE is responsible for
evaluating all VIIRS cloud and aerosol EDRs,
and impact of SDRs on these EDRs.
EDR Evaluation: Cloud Height (MODIS-CALIOP)
MODIS above
CALIOP
MODIS below
CALIOP
Flexible collocation
software has been
developed for satellite to
satellite (formation or
SNO) and satellite to
ground comparisons
MODIS Cloud Height Algorithm:
benefits from reprocessing with
(1) AIRS radiance cal & (2) new handling of inversions
MODIS comparison with CALIOP for Aug 06
Global Without Polar Clouds (60 deg)
T7
0.05
Normalized Number of Occurrence
0.045
All Cloudy FOV
CALIPSO < 5 km
CALIPSO > 5 km
0.04
0.035
0.03
0.025
Mean All Cloud Heights = −2.65
STD All Cloud Heights = 3.60
Mean Cloud Height <= 5 km = −0.62
STD Cloud Height <= 5 km = 1.17
Mean Cloud Height > 5 km = −4.28
STD Cloud Height > 5km = 4.04
0.02
0.015
0.01
0.005
0
−20
−15
−10
−5
0
Cloud Height Difference (MODIS − CALIPSO (km))
5
DAAC
PEATE enables testing of algorithm improvements on large data sets
Frey, Holz, Dutcher, Weisz, Heidinger, Baum, & Menzel
10
4
Reprocessing of 30 yrs of HIRS Started
Investigation of Deep Convective Clouds is new addition
Olsen, Baum, Kolat, Wylie, & Menzel
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GEO/LEO synergy provides better soundings
(spatial, temporal and vertical)
AIRS window BT images (color)
overlaying on hourly GOES Sounder
BT images (B/W)
Pressure (hPa)
GOES
GOES/AIRS
Combination of LEO/GEO provides better
spatial and vertical profiles
Zhenglong Li, Elisabeth Weisz, Chian-Yi Liu, Jun Li
RAOBs are from SGP ARM
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Demonstration of GEO advanced sounder for storm nowcasting
GIFTS/HES/IRS
True
Lifted Index
Simulated Radar
ABI/GOES Sounder like
GIFTS/HES provides needed instability and warning information
hours earlier than current GOES Sounder and Radar
Jun Li, Jinlong Li, Jason Otkin, and Tim Schmit
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UW Baseline Fit (BF) Emissivity database
Available: http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/iremis/
94 registered users since Sept 2006 (last year 64)
Reference: Seemann et al., 2008: Development of a Global Infrared Land
Surface Emissivity Database for Application to Clear Sky Sounding Retrievals
from Multi-spectral Satellite Radiance Measurements. J. Appl. Meteor.
Climatol., Vol. 47, 108-123.
UW-AIRS , Jan 1-8 2004
Time coverage: 6 years: 092002 -112008
Spatial resolution: 5 degree (~ 5km)
Spectral resolution: 10 hinge points
The UW HSR land surface IR emissivity
algorithm is available by request.
BT Residuals (LW)
UW MODIS BF V4
Problem in MYD11 C5
8-9.5 μm dBt > 6 K
8.7 μm
UW MODIS BF V5
BT Residuals (SW)
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High temporal information used in GOES-R product development –
example of surface IR emissivity product
Emissivity from single time step
method
(emissivity has false diurnal
variation)
Emissivity using time continuity
method
(emissivity shows constant
evolution)
SEVIRI data are used
for 8.7 µm emissivity
Jun Li, Xin Jin, Eva Borbas
109
Hurricane Ike, Oblique view in Google Earth
Liam Gumley, Amato Evan and Bill Bellon
110
High spatial AIRS soundings provide positive impact
on hurricane track forecast
CTRL run: Assimilate radiosonde,
satellite cloud winds, aircraft data,
QuikScat surface winds, and
hurricane position data.
(using CIMSS single FOV retrievals)
Tracks of 72h forecasts on Hurricane Dean, Forecast starts at 00 UTC, 16 August 2007
Jun Li, Jinlong Li , and Hui Liu (NCAR)
111
Are hurricanes getting stronger
as the underlying ocean warms?
¾ The most intense storms have the strongest
dependence on SST
¾ SST places an upper bound on intensity.
Jim Kossin
112
Intensity trends: Global homogeneous satellite-based
record & the Historical Best Track archive
satellite-estimated
“best track”
inflates trends
Strong Storms are getting Stronger
In the last 30 years, the strongest hurricanes
have gotten stronger by about 3 – 4 m s-1 per
decade globally.
Elsner, J. B., J. P. Kossin, and T. H. Jagger,
2008: The increasing intensity of the strongest
tropical cyclones. Nature, 455, 92-95.
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Is the North Atlantic hurricane season getting longer?
SST in the Main Hurricane
Development Region is
warming
(order 1K/100 yrs)
⇒
Is the annual distribution
of tropical storm formation
dates changing?
⇒
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Trend toward
later storms
Trend toward earlier storms
US Hurricane Season is Getting Longer
The earliest storms are forming earlier in the
season and the latest storms are forming later.
These changes correlate with warming SST.
Kossin, J. P., 2008: Is the North Atlantic hurricane
season getting longer? Geophys. Res. Lett., 35,
L23705, doi:10.1029/2008GL036012.
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Computationally efficient methods of collocating satellite,
aircraft, and ground observations
Frederick W. Nagle and Robert E. Holz
University of Wisconsin Madison
Space Science and Engineering Center
CLARREO Inter‐Calibration Study
100 km CLARREO
“BT STDEV” (K) =
Standard deviation w/in
CLARREO FOV
100km
CrIS
11 μm MODIS BT (K)
“spatial difference” (K) =
mean w/in CLARREO FOV
minus mean w/in CrIS/IASI FOVs
IASI
11 μm MODIS BT (K)
11 μm MODIS BT (K)
~55% coverage
~18% coverage
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Research on Outer-Planet Atmospheres at SSEC
Science Team: Larry Sromovsky and Pat Fry
Planets: Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus
Research:
Atmospheric circulation
Seasonal response
Dynamics of circulation features
Vertical cloud structure and composition
Techniques:
Data Sources:
Spectroscopy, Imaging, in situ observations, cloud
tracking, radiation transfer modeling
Hubble Space Telescope, Cassini, New Horizons
Ground based telescopes (Keck and IRTF).
Archived data from Voyager & Galileo missions.
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2008: A Year of Planetary Proposal $uccess
Planetary Astronomy Program (3-year grant, accepted, top rated)
Planetary Atmospheres Program (3-year grant, accepted)
Jupiter Data Analysis Program (3-year grant, accepted)
Hubble Space Telescope Cycle 17 Program (1-year grant, after May 09 HST repair)
NASA IRTF observing time (spectroscopic observations completed)
SSEC is the leading Wisconsin center for Hubble observing:
In the last three observing cycles, 12 HST proposals were
submitted from Wisconsin investigators (all institutions).
Only 3 were awarded HST observing time, all from the SSEC
Outer Planet Team (100% approval rate)
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SSEC 2008 Outer Planet Publications (published or soon to be):
Sromovsky, L.A. and Fry, P.M. 2008. The methane abundance and structure of
Uranus' cloud bands inferred from spatially resolved 2006 Keck grism spectra.
Icarus 193, 252-266.
Hammel, H. B., Sromovsky, L.A., Fry, P.M., Rages, K.A., de Pater, I., and van
Dam, M. 2008. The Dark Spot in the Atmosphere of Uranus in 2006: Discovery,
Description, and Dynamical Simulations. Icarus (in press)
Sromovsky, L.A., and Fry, Hammel, H. B., Fry, P.M., de Pater, I., Rages, K.A. and
Showalter, M.R. 2008. Uranus at equinox: Cloud morphology and dynamics.
Icarus (in revision)
Publications in preparation:
Sromovsky, L.A. and Fry, P.M. 2009. Jupiter’s low latitude cloud
structure inferred from 2005 NICMOS observations. To be submitted
to Icarus.
Sromovsky, L.A. and Fry, P.M. 2009. Latitudinal variations in
Uranus cloud structure as constrained by 2002 STIS spectra. To be
submitted to Icarus.
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2008 Press release on Uranus equinox observations
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Keck observations of Uranus
2005
2007
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Tropospheric Pollution
Air Quality Modeling
Direct Broadcast to the World
CRAS Forecasts for
National Weather Service
Wisconsin View
Tropical Cyclone Forecasts
SNAAP (Satellite-based Nowcasting &
Aviation Applications)
CLARREO Climate Benchmark Mission
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REMOTE SENSING OF TROPOSPHERIC POLLUTION FROM SPACE: JACK FISHMAN, KEVIN W. BOWMAN, JOHN P. BURROWS, ANDREAS RICHTER, KELLY V. CHANCE,DAVID P. EDWARDS,
RANDALL V. MARTIN, GARY A. MORRIS, R. BRADLEY PIERCE, JERALD R. ZIEMKE,JASSIM A. AL-SAADI,
JOHN K. CREILSON, TODD K. SCHAACK, AND ANNE M. THOMPSON
O3
CO
(Top) August 2006 O3 and CO columns from Realtime Air Quality Modeling System (RAQMS) chemical analyses. (Bottom) Comparisons for Houston and Huntsville IONS ozonesonde sites. The June 2008 BAMS cover article entitled “Remote Sensing of Tropospheric Pollution from Space” provides a survey of
past, present, and future capabilities for space-based measurements of global trace gas distributions and discusses current
capabilities for assimilation of composition measurements into global air quality models. The article also discusses the
role of Geostationary trace gas measurements within the context of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems
(GEOSS) and national priorities for space-based measurements in the next decade.
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During April 2008, as part of the International Polar
Year (IPY), NOAA’s Climate Forcing and Air Quality
Programs engaged in an airborne field measurement
campaign in the Alaskan Arctic . The Aerosol, Radiation,
and Cloud Processes affecting Arctic Climate (ARCPAC)
field mission (Fairbanks AK) focused on direct measurements
of properties and processes designed to address nongreenhouse-gas atmospheric climate forcing
The Real-time Air Quality Modeling System
(RAQMS) chemical and aerosol forecasts,
initialized with real-time satellite
measurements (e.g. Aura OMI column ozone
and MLS ozone profiles, Terra and Aqua
MODIS AOD) where used for daily flight
planning activities during ARCPAC.
Brad Pierce, Todd Schaak, Allen Lensen
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Post mission analysis will focus on combining Arctic airborne, ground based, and satellite
measurements with meteorological, chemical, and aerosol analyses to assess the impacts of
aerosols, halogen catalyzed boundary layer ozone loss, and stratosphere-troposphere
exchange processes on the infrared radiative budget of the Arctic.
Brad Pierce NOAA/NESDIS
Jun Li (CIMSS)
Todd Schaack and Allen Lenzen (SSEC UW-Madison)
Jay Al-Saadi, Murali Natarajan, Chieko Kittaka (NASA/LaRC)
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International MODIS/AIRS
Processing Package
Milestones:
• Users from 41 Countries Downloaded
IMAPP MODIS Level 2 Software
• MODIS Destriping Software Release
• DB CRAS Release
• MODIS data mentioned 69 times
in AFDs by NWS forecasters
MODIS in AWIPS
DBCRAS 300 mb forecast
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SSEC Releases Version 1.0 of the
CIMSS Regional Assimilation System (CRAS) for
The IMAPP Direct Broadcast Package (DBCRAS)
MODIS
SSEC has released Version 1.0 of DBCRAS. It is a complete numerical weather
prediction (NWP) package designed to assimilate products generated by the
International MODIS/AIRS Processing Package (IMAPP). DBCRAS can be installed
on a Linux PC anywhere in the world bringing NWP and satellite data assimilation
capability to remote locations.
View Wisconsin DBCRAS at http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/model/realtime/cras48_WI/daily.html
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North Pole
DBCRAS Sites
▲ Tromso
▲ Anchorage, AK
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▲ Kazakhstan
London
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Madison
Istanbul
▲ Beijing
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Taiwan
▲Sao Paolo
▲Pretoria
▲Real time
Honolulu ▲
▲ Perth
▲Tested
South Pole
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DBCRAS Team: Kathy Strabala, Bob Aune, Scott Lindstrom, Allen Huang
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Real Time Forecast Imagery for the National Weather Service
For two years CRAS forecasts have providing 11μm and 6.7μm forecast
imagery to the NWS Central Region for distribution to NWS Forecast offices.
Bob Aune, NOAA and Jordan Gerth, CIMSS
CRAS TEMPESTUS HODIE - Tomorrow’s Weather Today
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www.WisconsinView.org
• New Data added for Public
Access (e.g. 2008 1-meter
true color statewide).
• Support for Wisconsin
Emergency Management –
June 2008 Flooding through
“International Charter”
activation.
• Spatial database development
(collaborations with AWS,
Data Center, CIMSS).
Lake Delton “Spillway” 2008
2008 flooding map (RADARSAT-1)
Sam Batzli
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TY Nabi, 29 Aug – 8 Sep, 2005
TCS-08/T-PARC Components
Midlatitude operating region
NRL P-3, FALCON
Extratropical Transition
(ET – recurvature),
Downstream Impacts
Japan, Yokota AFB
ET characteristics, forcing
of downstream impacts,
The CIMSS Tropical Cyclones team
tropical/midlatitude
extratropical
provided real time mission support interactions,
for
cyclogenesis
these targeted flights by generating an
Subtropical operating region
array of satellite based products, as
Driftsonde, NRL P-3,
well
as providing
on site analysis andTC Intensification
DOTSTAR,
WC-130
forecasting
expertise in Monterey. and structure
TC track characteristics,
tropical/midlatitude to post experiment
Contributions
change
interaction
analysis projects are on going. Recurvature, initiation of
Okinawa,
Kadena AFB
Guam, Andersen AFB
Tropical operating region
Driftsonde, NRL P-3,
DOTSTAR, WC-130
ET
Tropical Measurements
Large-scale circulation,
deep convection,
monsoon depressions,
tropical waves,
TC formation
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Courtesy Russ Elsberry - NPS
TCS-08/TPARC Mission Support – Real-time Satellite Products
TCS-08 CIMSS Support Page
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INTRODUCING THE NEW CIMSS TROPICAL CYCLONE WEB SITE
Christopher Velden and Timothy Olander
Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Use ‘Capture’ on the top control
bar to save user selected
background and overlays to
GIFs and loops to animated
GIFs
It has been 13 years since CIMSS launched the first-of-its-kind web site on
Tropical Cyclones (TCs). In all of that time, other than frequent updates and
product additions, the site has not changed in any major way. For the past
year or so, the CIMSS TC group has been working on a major site upgrade.
Intended for a slightly more sophisticated user, the site includes a new layout
and increased interactive capabilities. Interested analysts, researchers or just
plain hurricane aficionados can find information on real time storms, regional
analyses based on satellite-derived variables, special satellite imagery, and
examples of the SSEC/CIMSS TC Group research projects. The new site can
be found at:
Choose a background
domain resolution from
the TCTrak sidebar
Mouse over storm
symbol yields
current storm status
info from
NHC/CPHC or
JTWC
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic2
Featured on the new site is an interactive window for viewing and analyzing
real time TCs we call “TCTrak”. This analysis tool allows multiple data and
product overlays, animation manipulation, satellite-based TC estimates and
diagnostics, and more. The intent is for a user to interrogate the
meteorological conditions of a storm in real time. Included in the product
suite available for viewing is multispectral imagery (IR and microwave) from
virtually all operational (and some research) geo and polar orbiting satellites,
SST analysis, satellite-derived products such as winds, shear, and intensity
estimates, scatterometer winds, conventional observations, current TC track
and forecast discussions, numerical model track forecasts, and more. The
new site was made available to the TC community in July of 2007 and does
require recent web browser versions to function properly.
View latest satellite-based
storm intensity estimates
from CIMSS
Choose a
background analysis
and select overlays
Sfc obs, GOES winds and
convergence, ASCAT winds
Click on storm symbol to
bring up TCTrak Storm
display
Click on “I” symbol to
bring up TCTrak Invest
Area display and choose
backgrounds and overlays
Enhanced IR imagery
SST with vorticity
MPI max wind with sfc obs
TPW with divergence
Ocean heat content
Mouse over
shaded regions
yields regional
product menu
Coming soon... the CIMSS Tropical Cyclone Page using Google
Earth and McIDAS-V! Also, access the TC Page on your PDA
and iGoogle coming this summer!
For additional information about the TCTrack utility please see
the on-line help at:
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic2/real-time/help/help.html
Product credits:
ASCAT/QuikSCAT Scatterometer data courtesy of KNMI via EUMETSAT
SST data via the NOAA/NCEP/NWS Marine Modeling and Analysis Branch
MSLP/Wind Maximum Potential Intensity data courtesy of Dr. Kerry Emanuel (MIT)
OHC Atlantic and East Pacific data courtesy of Dr. Lynn (Nick) Shay (RSMAS); Other basins courtesy of Dr. Gustavo Goni
R&D sponsored by NOAA/NESDIS/USWRP
(NOAA/AOML)
Questions can be addressed to Chris Velden:
chris.velden@ssec.wisc.edu
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Satellite‐based Nowcasting and Aviation APplication (SNAAP) Team
2008 Accomplishments
• Annie Lenz won the AMS Macelwane Award for best undergraduate
research 2008 investigating transverse banding in thunderstorms
• Three peer reviewed papers, over a dozen conference papers
• Continued support from NASA and NOAA, several transitions to
operations underway
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Satellite Convective Initiation Nowcasting for GOES-R ABI
Current Generation Product: Pixel Based Box-Averaging
45 Minute Cloud-Top
Cooling Rate
ABI Cloud Typing
With 5-min ABI imagery, cumulus clouds will
not move very far between images
ABI IR-only cloud typing is used to identify
relevant cloudy pixels and the average
temperature of these clouds is computed
over a box
The box-averaged temperatures are
differenced over a sequence of images to
objectively identify newly developing
thunderstorms during both day and night
SEVIRI IR Window
Box-averaged CI nowcast products have
been produced over a four day period using
MSG SEVIRI data and validated using cloudto-ground lightning strikes over South Africa
Lightning Initiation POD (133 LI cases): 76%
Lightning Nowcast FAR (10214 pixels): 29%
Future Generation Product: Object Based Nowcasting
Cumulus clouds can be treated as coherent
objects whose temperature, areal coverage, and
microphysical properties can be tracked over long
periods of time, allowing for more accurate CI
nowcasting
Object-based tracking allows for easier validation
of satellite CI nowcast products as ground-based
radar reflectivity can be monitored throughout the
entire storm lifecycle
Top of Atmosphere Emissivity
from GOES-R ABI Cloud Typing
Product Output
Cloud Object Identification Colored by 5-min SEVIRI
IR Window Cooling Rates (White=No Cooling) with
Object Motion Vectors (in Magenta) from WDSS-II
Object tracking methods such as the NSSL
WDSS-II system are being tested at CIMSS on
rapid-scan GOES and SEVIRI for the GOES-R
ABI program
Kris Bedka, Justin Sieglaff, Lee Cronce, Kaba Bah
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ABI Enhanced-V Signature Examples
2 km ABI Proxy (AVHRR and MODIS) Imagery from 8 Different Events
with Identical Domain Sizes and Color Enhancements
• The enhanced-V signature is an important indicator of storm severity
• Enhanced-V’s have wide array of V “arm” separations, arm lengths, and IR
temperature characteristics
• One constant is the presence of a downstream warm area that is coupled with the
cold overshooting top (i.e. “thermal couplet”)
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ABI Enhanced-V Detection Product Validation
• Over 25 test cases, 140 enhanced-V producing storms are present
• 65% of all enhanced-V’s were detected with the CIMSS GOES-R ABI enhanced-V
detection algorithm
• 74% of all detected enhanced-V’s were associated with severe weather
Cyan: Detected Couplet Overshooting Tops
Green: Detected Couplet Downstream Warm Regions
Kris Bedka, Jason Bruner
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1 km AVHRR
Objective Day/Night Overshooting Top
Detection Using Current and Future GOES
IR window imagery is used to identify overshooting tops
occurring during both day and night
A study of 450 enhanced-V producing overshooting top cases
(Jason Brunner et al. (WAF, 2007)) shows that tops are:
1)isolated clusters of pixels (< 12 km2 area) colder than 215 K
and the GFS tropopause temp
2)significantly colder (> 6.5 K) than the surrounding anvil cloud
Higher ABI spatial resolution leads to better observation of
cold BT minima and improved overshooting detection
Overshooting Detection
Using 2 km GOES-R ABI
Overshooting Detection
Using 4 km GOES-12
Compare Summer 2005-2007 GOES-12
Overshoots to EDR at Expanding Radii
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GOES-12 Overshooting Top Turbulence Relationships
• Flight very close (< 10 km) to overshooting tops produces a significant increase in the
frequency and intensity of turbulence compared to uniformly cold non-overshooting cloud tops,
clearly indicating that overshooting tops are an aviation hazard
• Non-overshooting top pixels indicate the presence of a large area (> 40 km in diameter)
of < 215 K cloud tops.
- Larger, mature thunderstorms induce a higher frequency of turbulence
encounters at greater distances from the cold BT region
• Overshooting top algorithm being transitioned to NCAR for testing in next-generation
Graphical Turbulence Guidance (GTG-N) system
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Transverse Bands
Of 54 band events, 41 had at least one EDR-equipped aircraft fly “through”
bands, 93% (44%) of these 41 events showed light (moderate or greater)
turbulence within the bands – Annie Lenz won AMS Undergraduate
Research Award with this work
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SSEC’s 1st Data Compression Chip
¾ SSEC’s linear-time minimum-redundancy prefix coding outperforms the
CCSDS Rice coding in terms of compression gain and execution time.
¾ Its VLSI chip design (version 1) was recently finished.
¾ The SSEC prefix chip (in FPGA) yields higher data throughput and lower
power consumption than the CCSDS Rice chip (in ASIC).
CLARREO
(CLimate Absolute Radiance & Refractivity Observatory)
• Recommended by NRC Decadal Survey
• 1st tier of 4 missions being pursed by NASA
• NASA LaRC has responsibility for Mission
• SSEC receiving Pre-Phase A study support
• Simulations underway at SSEC using AIRS
& MODIS data
• Won Instrument Incubator Program this year
• SSEC teamed with Harvard (Jim Anderson)
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CLARREO Mission: New Paradigms
for Benchmarking Climate Change
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IR Spectral Radiances: give
high information content and
can be measured with
high accuracy
(< 0.1 ºC, 3-sigma Tb)
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Far IR Coverage: Fits with
Dave Turners work for ARM
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On-orbit proof of accuracy:
- Key to credibility
- Subject of IIP development
presented earlier
AIRS-based Simulation by
Steve Dutcher
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CM2 25-yr Annual Mean Trends
Yi Huang thesis (Ramaswamy, advisor), 2008
Black dots indicate changes > 3 x standard deviation of unforced means
Note OLR Insensitivity to the trends in
Ts, Atmospheric T, WV, and Clouds
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CLARREO-type Benchmark Record
from CM2 Annual Mean Spectral 25-yr Trend
Yi Huang thesis (Ramaswamy, advisor), 2008
CLARREO could have captured this benchmark record.
we want to start as soon as possible!
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Extras
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Honors and Awards
Chris Velden:
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Chaired the AMS Annual Meeting in New Orleans
Elected Fellow of the AMS
Named to the AMS Committee on Data Stewardship
Dave Tobin received the “Young Scientist Award” from the International Radiation
Symposium
Allen Huang named SPIE Fellow for his career contributions
Wayne Feltz, Patrick Heck, Tony Wimmers and Mike Pavolonis were part of the NASA
Advanced Satellite Aviation-weather products Project Team which received the 2007 Paul
F. Holloway Non-Aerospace Technology Transfer Award
Ed Eloranta named Fellow of OSA
Tim Schmit and Paul Menzel were part of the GOES-N Series Team receiving a Group
Achievement Award from NASA
Jordan Gerth was the 2008 Wisconsin Space Conference undergrad representative to the
joint NASA Future Forum and Great Midwestern Space Conference.
Annie Lenz, an AOS major who worked with Kris Bedka and Wayne Feltz, has won the
2008 AMS Macelwane award for her original student research paper.
Steve Ackerman has won the AMS Teaching Excellence Award for 2008
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Organized by Tim Schmit and Maria Vasys
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Thanks for coming
Let’s have a great Holiday Party
(Officially starting at 1:30)
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