(View from SSEC)
State of SSEC, 2003
Hank Revercomb
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Space Science and Engineering
Center (SSEC)
18 December 2003
General Topics
A. SSEC, the Center
B. Our Science, Engineering
& Outreach
C. Special Events from 2003
A1. SSEC General Health
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We are financially healthy & actively
involved in cutting-edge research
The spirit that has made us strong is
alive and well.
I want to applaud your continuation
of the Center spirit that allows us to
revel in shared successes as well as
individual achievements!
Stable Administration & Structure
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Executive Directors (John Roberts, Fred Best,
Tom Achtor) & their staff are doing a great job
Science Council is vibrant and effective
– For 2004, 2 members retiring after 4 years, 3 being added
– Allen Huang (SSEC, Senior Scientist) is replacing
George Diak who is retiring for health reasons. Allen has
has been playing a high level leadership role in SSEC
– Wilt Sanders (Physics and SSEC) is replacing
Francis Halzen (Physics), whose IceCube Project has
established its own structure under the Graduate School.
Wilt is the proponent for a new X-ray mission to detect the
Missing Baryons in the Universe. The project would be
organized under SSEC.
– Professor Jeffery Naughton (UW Computer Sciences),
a recognized expert in Data Base Computer Science,
will be joining the Council
A major research group left us this year:
IceCube / A3RI
(Antarctic Astronomy & Astrophysics Institute)
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After 4 years at SSEC, IceCube has become an NSF
Major Research Expenditure (MRE) Project, and has
been re-organized under the Graduate School
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The new IceCube Project Director, Jim Yeck, and
A3RI Director, Jay Gallagher, now report directly to
Dean Cadwallader
A3RI is establishing it’s own administrative
structure to serve IceCube. The transition from
SSEC services is expected to take several months
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Ice Coring & Drilling Services are staying with SSEC
We wish the fascinating IceCube project every
success
But SSEC is growing substantially
(independent of IceCube/EHWD)
SSEC Annual Spending (SFY)
16
Dollars (M$)
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2005
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And, the balance the bank sees is positive
for the 1st time in several years!
Congratulations to all of you and thanks for the great work
333 N. Randall: ICDS is settled in
Alex Shturmakov
Bill Mason
Upgraded, thanks
to Joann, Jim,
Fred & others
Printers & Xerox
A3RI will
be moving some
folks also
Robin Bolsey
Michail Gerasimoff
Jim Green
Bruce Koci
Don Lebar
Bill Mason
Alex Shturmakov
Tony Wendricks
Network Switch
CIMSS and its fearless leader, Steve Ackerman,
aka “Santa Claus”, are bridging the
“valley of death” to operations very successfully
from Steve’s
very successful
Board Meeting
12 Dec 2003
Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
Accelerates the Transition of Research to Operations
NOAA Team Lead, Jeff Key’s, science
made its mark in 2003
14 Jan 14 2003
ECMWF began
assimilating the
MODIS
polar winds
operationally
< 400 hPa
400-700 hPa
700 - Surface
Positive Impact
Demonstrated
in N Hem.
An example of the MODIS polar winds over the Arctic on April 25, 2003. The wind vectors
are derived from a triplet of orbits and plotted on the infrared image of the middle overpass.
Wind vectors are categorized as low, middle, and high for display purposes.
Antarctic Meteorological Research Center
Fog Droplet
collection (~7.5 to 9.9
micron in diameter)
Development of
McMurdo Station
Fog Climatology
Total Eclipse of the Sun
Terra MODIS Visible
23 Nov 2003 23 UTC
and, one comment on my personal organization
Fortunately,
before I could
find anyone
else to blame,
Terri Gregory
& Camie Tucker
Came to my
Rescue
A2. SSEC Administrative
Services
Thanks to John, and all of you that
make our projects work, from Travel,
to accounting, to … !
This Year’s Specific Focus
X Library
X Purchasing
X Human Relations
X Technical Computing
Schwerdtfeger Library:
25th Anniversary &
18th year with Jean Phillips
Jean’s signature of
effectiveness, grace, & library leadership
are in evidence
25th Year Celebrated with an Upgrade
New Active Shelf System - the process
Functional
throughout
the change
∼20,000 documents,
75-80% unique,
filled the halls
New Active Shelf System-the result
About 50% more
useable shelf space
in the same room!
Work space preserved
Jean Phillips, et al.
Schwerdtfeger Library
On-line Bentley Collection
On Wisconsin, Winter 2003
Purchasing Activity Very Heavy
Handled expertly thanks to
Dave Allen & Co
(Judy Cohen, Gretchen Fitzgerald & Mike Dean)
In 2 years, the number of orders increased 47%, and
the dollar volume increased 634% !
CY 2001: $ 2.4 M
CY 2002: $ 5.5 M
CY 2003:$15.5 M
Thanks for handling the surge. I know it took a
lot of hard work + a well thought out & robust system
Human Relations still handling a huge load well:
Many Thanks to Sally Loy, Jean Stover & Camie Tucker
Hires
Academic Hires
Classified & LTS's
Grad. Students
Research Interns /Assoc
Students
Misc./Hon. Fellows, etc
Total
2001
44
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9
7
46
5
2002
46
5
9
8
46
7
2003
38
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14
13
54
17
119
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139
∼1/wk!
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Processed 24 Rate and Title changes
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Helped process J, F, H1B, TN visas for 21 in 2003,
plus paperwork involved in Perm. Residency or the EAC
(Employment Authorization Card)
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Plus normal handling of staff leave of absences, % changes,
& benefits when staff start, leave, have babies, etc.
Technical Computing
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Computing activities: Request Tracker recorded
3,070 requests completed, with about equal
number of walk-ins (∼20/day!)
Networking: network infrastructure upgraded for
both research and daily computing activities &
added new Randall Street location
Backup System: about 125 'recoveries'
(2-3/week, ranging from GBs to key files)
Email viruses & internet worms: widespread
problems at UW & worldwide, but not at SSEC
Thanks! You kept us up through all of this,
really minimized our lost time, and made it look
easy
1 inch
B. Our Science, Engineering
& Outreach
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SSEC/CIMSS Data Center & Processing…
Validation of Satellite Radiances and Products…
Key Applications: Progress & New Devel.
Atmospheric Modeling
Special SSEC Observing Capabilities
Ice Coring and Drilling Services
Satellite Program Involvement
Planetary Sciences
Education and Public Outreach
B1. SSEC/CIMSS Data
Center & Processing
Capabilities
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McIDAS Going strong after 30 years -World’s longest continuously supported SW
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SSEC Engaging in new efforts for
– Pipeline Processing for GIFTS/GOES-R
high resolution IR data
– Smart Data Access System for GOES-R
– Future McIDAS – starting as in-house effort
McIDAS-V
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Based on VisAD via Unidata
Integrated Data Viewer (IDV)
Visualization and analysis of
any data encountered
Wide variety of 2- and 3-D
display types
Innovative ways of graphically
interacting with data
User scripting in Python
Strong distributed computing
Support for existing McIDAS-X
applications
In collaboration with Unidata,
BOM, NCAR, NCSA, etc
Future SSEC Data Center Roles,
as Primary GOES Archive Role Ends
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SSEC will remain an active partner to NESDIS in
assuring that satellite data and its availability &
utility are of the highest quality
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Future activities will build upon past strengths
(Satellite data user support, instrument & data
stream evaluation, archive support)
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SSEC will also participate in Science Stewardship, Future GOES Archive Development, and
Completing Data Rescue
The data will continue to flow
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New SSEC Data Center
& Processing Efforts er
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Pipeline Processors
e.g. GIFTS/GOES-R
Refinery Clusters
Smart
Data Access
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Matlab
VisAD
Analysis
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McIDAS
Analysis
IDV
Analysis &
Visualization
Analysis
&&
Visualization
Analysis
Visualization
Analysis &
System
Visualization
System
Visualization
System
Visualization
System
System
System
McIDAS-V
MODIS Cloud Mask (left) & Phase (right)
MODIS Cloud Top Pressure
MODIS Total Precipitable Water
MODIS True Color
Direct
Broadcast
& IMAPP AIRS Water Vapor BT Images
AIRS IR Window BT Images
Serving the World
B2. Validation of Satellite
Radiances and Products
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AIRS radiances with Scanning HIS
Aircraft data
MODIS & GOES from AIRS & S-HIS
AIRS retrieval products and forward
model–ARM “Best Estimate” profiles
High Spectral Resolution offers a new tool
Validation of AIRS with Scanning HIS
from the ER-2 at 20 km
AIRS
SHIS
21 November 2002
Over Gulf of Mexico
(AIRSobs-AIRScalc)(SHISobs-SHIScalc) (K)
AIRS-SHIS agreement is really fantastic!
Excluding channels strongly affected by atmosphere above ER2
Calibration and Validation for
IR radiance observations
are now concerned with
tenths of K, not degrees K !
Fantastic AIRS - MODIS Agreement for Band 22 (4.0µm)!
AIRS Tb (K)
AIRS Histogram
MODIS
AIRS minus MODIS (K)
Uniform Scenes
Selected
Summary of AIRS-MODIS
mean Tb differences
Red=without accounting for convolution error
Blue=accounting for convolution error with mean
correction from standard atmospheres
p-p Convolution Error (CE) Estimate
Band
21
22
23
24
25
27
28
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
Diff
0.10
-0.05
-0.05
-0.23
-0.22
1.62
-0.19
0.51
0.16
0.10
-0.21
-0.23
-0.78
-0.99
CE
-0.01
-0.00
0.19
0.00
0.25
-0.57
0.67
-0.93
-0.13
0.00
0.28
-0.11
0.21
0.12
Diff
0.09
-0.05
0.14
-0.22
0.03
1.05
0.48
-0.41
0.03
0.10
0.07
-0.34
-0.57
-0.88
Std
0.23
0.10
0.16
0.24
0.13
0.30
0.25
0.26
0.12
0.16
0.21
0.15
0.28
0.43
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187487
210762
244064
559547
453068
1044122
1149593
172064
322522
330994
716940
1089663
1318406
1980369
But significant differences (>1 K)
in some key bands
Band
µm
Encouraging agreement with direct ER-2 aircraft
validation from MODIS Airborne Simulator and SHIS
MODIS spec. given by box,
comparison is star symbol.
Along Track Profile
ARM Site Atmospheric State Best Estimates
NSA
SGP
TWP
Accurately accounting for Spatial & Temporal Gradients
• “Best estimate” atmospheric profiles for AIRS overpasses of the ARM sites are
constructed from various ARM measurements, including RS-90 radiosondes
launched near the overpass time. 25-Jul-2002 08:35 ARM SGP Overpass Best Estimate
B3. Key Applications:
New areas & Progress
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Aviation Safety
Thorpex is the new GATE
(GARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment, 1974)
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Tropical Cyclones: Isabel
Land Surface Emissivity & T
T and Water Vapor Sounding
Cloud phase and microphysics
Ozone from GOES
AVHRR Mesoscale Meteorology
Advanced Satellite Aviation-weather Products
(ASAP) Initiative from NASA
ASAP: Developing High-Resolution Satellite
Weather Products to Improve Aviation Safety
100th Anniversary Yesterday
NASA
Test
Pilot
17 December 1903, 10:35 AM
SSEC/CIMSS with UAH
support ASAP’s
joint effort with
NCAR/FAA Aviation
Weather Research Program
Model Data for Commercial Aircraft
Weather Information Network (WINN)
THORpex: A Global Atmospheric
Research Program
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THORPEX is a 10 year international research program
under the auspices of the World Meteorological
Organization/World Weather Research Program
(WMO/WWRP) to accelerate improvements in weather
predictions and the societal value of advanced forecast
products.
THORPEX will examine predictability and observing
system issues, and establish the potential to produce
significant statistically-verifiable improvements in
forecasts of high impact weather.
[THe Observing-system Research and predictability experiment]
S-HIS Relative Humidity from Thorpex:
Compared to Lidar clouds (gray), in the field!
Ferry Flight from NASA Dryden to Atlantic Thorpex in Maine
Jim Kossin’s
“starfish”
(6 mesovotices)
Hurricane
Isabel
12 Sept 2003
1315 UTC
DMSP
Theory
Confirmed!
Isabel- 12 September 2003
JAS, 1 August 2001
Isabel:
evil eye
totally changed
in 2 hours
(1500 12 Sept
MODIS Terra)
18 Sept 1555
Isabel: moves
onshore onMODIS
17 Sept 1825
Surface Emissivity is needed to get Land Surface T right
High Spectral Resolution is Key
Pure Vegetation
LSE
from
AIRS
Radiance
Bare Soil
From AERI
Research
Product
-1)-1)
Wavenumber
Wavenumber(cm
(cm
Brightness T Smears out important Surface T gradients
and makes underestimates the highest Temperatures
AIRS
12 µm
B.T.
(K)
LST
(K)
Research
Product
AIRS Observation from 16 Nov. 2002 of DOE ARM Site
Hot, bare soil Tb is reduced by its lower emissivity
SW
Desert surface emissivity
examples from AIRS
Example shows εsfc(λ) over the
Mediterranean Sea to Algeria
to the Sahara Desert.
Transect from Mediterranean to Sahara
LW
Even bigger
effect in SW
LW
Wavenumber
SW
AIRS is leading to progress in
improving Land Surface Temperatures
AIRS direct broadcast real-time retrieval (December 16, 2003)
of surface skin temperature [K] (left) and surface emissivity at 926 cm-1 (right)
Water Vapor Retrievals need
Surface Emissivity & T too!
Aqua MODIS TPW (mm)
August 24, 2002
Original emissivity
Example for very
hot daytime
scenes over the
Sahara Desert
New emissivity in training data
Sounding: AIRS T & WV Retrievals
are being compared to ECMWF
Total Precipitable Water [cm]
ECMWF Analysis
AIRS Retrieval
Temperature [K]
with MODIS
cloudmask
with MODIS
cloudmask
Retrieval of Temperature at 850 mbar (left) and TPW (right) for granule 192 on
September 2, 2003 compared with ECMWF analysis.
Key Regression Retrieval Improvement:
Skin Temperature
measurements from
SGP ARM &
Marine AERI’s
guide Improvements
to Regression
Training Set
over land and sea
Difference: IRT Skin T – Sonde Surface Air T
Realistic Skin Temperature assigned to profiles
T skin – T air (clear)
30 months ARM data
Solar Zenith Angle
Cloud Phase and Overlaps are being identified
with MODIS
Example: MODIS Direct Broadcast
Terra, October 30, 2003
Microphysics has become very sophisticated
CPI Particle Habits
Simulated Particle Habits
AIRS Cloudy Spectrum fit in good detail
with MODIS/AIRS derived Cloud Top, Particle Size, and Optical Thickness
AIRS compared to calculation
CPS=33.90, COT=1.62
Ozone: Synoptic feature observed
from GOES- Unusual for Summer
GOES-10/-12 Sounder ozone estimates for 17:00 UTC on 23 July 2003:
Few ozone features
are this apparent during the height of summer, but in this case GOES-12 (eastern half of the image) resolved an
ozone feature associated with a synoptic system.
AVHRR: Arctic Rivers of cold air--Still new
perspectives from older resources (Scott Bachmeier)
B4. Atmospheric Modeling
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Lasting words from Bill Raymond
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Regional Air Quality Modeling
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UW Diagnostic and Isentropic techniques
for NCEP
Assimilating GOES brightness
temperatures in NWP models
Personnel:
Bill Raymond, Gary Wade, and Tom Zapotocny
Objective: A new method for incorporating upper tropospheric moisture and winds in NWP models has
been implemented by using direct assimilation of GOES brightness temperatures. This study uses GOES
Imager channel 3 (6.7 µm) data from both clear and cloudy regions, a forward radiative transmittance
model, and a numerical optimization procedure to modify upper tropospheric moisture and winds.
Accomplishments:
•The above scheme was used in a series of tests 10 days in length during September 2000. The initial
conditions were supplied by NCEP’s EDAS, after which the model atmosphere was modified to include
the new GOES brightness temperature data. Correlation forecast results of brightness temperature
indicate that the new scheme improved the forecast for all 10 days of the study at 24-hrs and 8 of the 10
days at 48-hrs. The accompanying figure summarizes modifications to the initial atmosphere brightness
temperature for one time period of this study.
•This work is described in the following two publications (one awaiting acceptance)
Raymond, W. H., G. S. Wade, and T. H. Zapotocny, 2004: Assimilating GOES brightness temperatures. Part 1: Upper
tropospheric moisture. Accepted for publication in J. Appl. Meteor.
Raymond, W. H., G. S. Wade, and T. H. Zapotocny, 2004: Assimilating GOES brightness temperatures. Part 2:
Assigning water vapor wind heights directly from weighting functions. Conditionally accepted for publication in J. Appl.
Meteor.
Funded by: NOAA
Assimilating Cloudy
GOES Imager Obs
into CRAS
A. Eta Model
First Guess
B. GOES Tb
observations for
Assimilation-“Truth”
C. CRAS Accepts
the information &
Maintains improved
GOES Correlation
for > 48 hours
Regional Air Quality Modeling System
(RAQMS)
Collaboration – Brad Pierce, NASA Langley & UW SSEC
Multi-scale (global/regional) chemical modeling and data assimilation system
UW Hybrid θ-η Model
UW - NMS
Global model
Regional non-hydrostatic model
NASA Langley Impact Model
Chemical Module
RAQMS Global and Regional Models
NASA Satellite
Products
Global
Assimilation
Regional
Prediction
Public
Impact
Scientific
Understanding
Current Focus is on Ozone
Global assimilation of stratospheric profiles
and total column observations
No observations from the troposphere
Data Sources
Solar occultation limb measurements
Solar backscatter column measurements
Total Column Ozone
For July 5-7, 1999
Assimilation of GOES
Total column measurements
GOES data replaces
TOMS data where
available
GOES assimilation
minus
TOMS assimilation
Valuable Tool for
End-to-end test
of observation validity
and impact—
Great connection
for our
GOES Ozone work
Collaborative Effort with NCEP
(Don Johnson’s Group)
The goal is to help ascertain reasons for NCEP model biases
and improve weather and medium-range forecasts,
especially emphasizing the isentropic approach.
•Diagnostic package developed at the UW is being migrated to NCEP
(currently working with the Global Modeling Branch)
Diagnostics are being used with both global model forecasts and
assimilated data sets to evaluate:
1. The numerical accuracies of transport and exchange.
2. The impact of different parameterization algorithms on NWP.
3. The impact of increased horizontal and vertical resolution.
•Diagnostics from the isentropic perspective of the global circulation
are also being migrated and applied as part of this effort.
•Scientific exchange on hybrid isentropic coordinate modeling as NCEP
and other groups move toward developing hybrid coordinate models.
B5. Special SSEC Observing
Capabilities
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High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL)
Scanning High-resolution Interferometer Sounder
(S-HIS)
Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer
(AERI)
Antarctic Automatic Weather Stations
Arctic HSRL: demonstrated 24/7 at SSEC!
(High Spectral Resolution Lidar)
New Instrument
has provided more
HSRL data than
collected in the last
20 Years!
Web site with data
lidar.ssec.wisc.edu
Covers 0-30 km
HSRL is validating GLAS on IceSat
SSEC targeted
by IceSat
GLAS & HSRL Beam
looking at same boundary
layer haze
8 October 2003
Arctic HSRL Backscatter and Depolarization
UW Scanning HIS: 1998-Present
(HIS: High-resolution Interferometer Sounder, 1985-1998)
Characteristics
Spectral Coverage: 3-17 microns
Spectral Resolution: 0.5 cm-1
Resolving power:
1000-6000
Footprint Diam: 1.5 km @ 15 km
Cross-Track Scan: Programmable
including uplooking zenith view
CO2
Midwave
CH4/N2O
O3
H2O
Longwave
H2O
Shortwave
N2O
CO2
CO
Applications:
Radiances for
Radiative Transfer
X Temp & Water Vapor
Retrievals
X Cloud Radiative Prop.
X Surface Emissivity & T
X Trace Gas Retrievals
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S-HIS zenith and cross-track scanning Earth views
11-16-2002 from Proteus @ ~14km
Observed and Caculated zenith views from Proteus @ ~14km
Calculated
Observed
Calculation based on 18Z ECMWF analysis, with 0.0004 cm H2O above 14km
AERI:
New Rapid
Scanning
for clouds
(20-40s,
from 500s)
26 Oct 2003
Okahoma ARM
(Dave Turner)
AERI Rapid Sampling Detects
Boundary Layer Waves
40-s Profiles: 17-21 UTC
20 g/kg
2.5 km
2.0
15
1.5
1.0
10
0.5
315 m
5
0
AERI WV Perturbations: 315 m
AERI
Boundary
Layer Rolls
GOES-8 1 km Visible: 1925 UTC, 7/29/02
40 s Perturbation
5 min. Running Mean
GOES Derived Roll Periodicity: 23 minutes
AERI Derived Roll Periodicity: 17-25 mins
Mecikalski J.M., K. M. Bedka, D. D. Turner, and W.F. Feltz, 2004: Evidence for the
Presence of Roll Structures in the Convective Boundary Layer using Thermodynamic
Profiling Instruments. Submitted to J. Geophys. Res.
Antarctic Automatic Weather Station Project & Iceberg Tracking Project
Deployment of
AWS/GPS
On B-15A
&
Seismic Array
On C-16
Decoding Dutch AWS in Real-time
B6. Ice Coring and Drilling
Services
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IceCube Enhanced Hot Water Drill
Seismic Shot-Hole Drill
Next-generation Deep Ice Coring Drill
– Green light from NSF to proceed with design and
initial construction of drill to collect cores
through 4 km of ice in central West Antarctica
Hose & Reel for IceCube EHWD
(EHWD = Enhanced Hot Water Drill)
8' diameter Hose Reel at PSL
Drive
Chain
& Motor
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Holds 9,500′
of 3 ¾'' hose
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Reel weighs
25 tons,
50 tons with
hose & water
Sled
Now on its journey to the south pole!
High Pressure Pump System
(4 motors & 4 pumps)
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Max Pressure:
80 Atmospheres
(1200 psig)
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Delivers up to
240 gallons/min
Main Heating Plant (1 of 4)
with 9 Water Heaters per Plant
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Heaters 90%
efficient
Each can heat
7.5 gallons/min
from 70 F
to 190 F
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Pre-heat System (R) keeps 10,000 gal at 70F
Rodriques Well System (L) provides make-up
water & keeps another 10,000 gal at 40F
PHS
Seismic Shot Hole Drill
Constructed in 2002
Performed beyond our best expectations
during the 2002-2003 Antarctic field season
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226 60-m holes in just 2 weeks
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1 to 90 m, only limited by length
of air hose suspending the drill
B7. Satellite Program
Involvement
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ASTRO E-2 & Missing Baryon Explorer
Geosynchronous Imaging FTS (GIFTS)
Future Operational GOES:
HES/ABI Simulations and Requirements Definition
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Future Operational Polar System
CrIS & VIIRS (AIRS & MODIS
counterparts) Participation through IPO Gov’t
Studies & Algorithm teams and NASA Science Team
Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator:
SSEC development for ASTRO-E2 gets the detectors cold!
1,600 8 mil gold wires!
Half of the wires terminate into a
copper heat switch mount that is
thermally connected to a liquid
helium bath. The remaining wires
terminate into copper rods that attach
to the XRS detectors
Detector T = 45-60 mK
Maintainable for 30 hours,
by careful magnetic field control
UW/SSEC
Instrument
Management
A new Small Explorer (SMEX) Proposal:
We just got bad new on this one, but we will be back
GIFTS Activities
1. Instrument Design activities continue with a NASA
commitment to build the instrument, although
resources for a spacecraft are still needed
2. We are building EM Calibration Blackbodies &
control electronics
3. NOAA support of algorithm development
and ground system planning as risk reduction
for GOES R continues
GIFTS Blackbody
Aluminum
Circumferential Cavity
Heater
Stress Model
of Base
Blackbody
Aperture (1”)
Temperature
Sensors
Thermal Model of
Installed Sensor
GIFTS Blackbody
Engineering Model Test Phase
Blackbody Cavity
Controller Electronics
Engineering Model
SDL has their final test
chambers ready for GIFTS
UW Inspectors
B8. Planetary Sciences
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Neptune observing and analysis
Larry Sromovsky’s
& Pat Fry’s Neptune
Out of
130,000
Other News Features
Neptune’s Seasons:
Washington Post
CNN
Scientific American
BBC
MSNBC
2002
1998
1996
Neptune
Update
New Data acquired
from Keck-2 telescope
Near IR Camera-2
in August by
Larry Sromovsky & Pat Fry
1. Actually exceeds Space Telescope Resolution
2. Shows detailed structure at mid latitudes in the
southern hemisphere with periodic 5 degree spacing
3. White = high opaque clouds, Red=high thin cloud (100 mb),
Blue-green=low cloud (1 bar)
B9. Education and Public
Outreach
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Office of Space Science Education
CIMSS
Image Composite Editor
**In 2003
OSSE Reached
over 2400
K-12 students/teachers
through 37 events!!
Margaret helped develop
the Satellite Meteorology
Course for high schools
3-week UW PEOPLE
Workshop led by OSSE in
partnership with
WI Dept. of Transportation
and UW Space Place
GLOBE,
Teaching Space Science,
Satellite Meteorology
Workshops
“Physics of Star Trek”
Hosted 3 SHARP students
lecture featuring
(Larry Sromovsky, Jim
Lawrence Krauss draws
Kossin and Sanjay
the largest audience ever at Limaye) and a local High
Space Place
School student (Schnettler)
Sanjay became the third
Neptune Mosaic Displayed
Sanjay manned the Ask-Ageneration scientist in his
at the Association of
Scientist booth at the
family to present a paper at National Science Teachers
Science Technology
the Indian Science
Centers Annual meeting in
Association Meeting in
Congress (90th )
St. Paul, MN
Philadelphia
Rosalyn returned from an
outstanding performance at
NASA HQ
Sanjay and Margaret
participated in Speakers
Bureau and WAA UWOn-the-Road Visits
**Rosalyn is
now the
OSSE Director
PEOPLE Workshop, June 2003
GLOBE Workshop for CESA 9
teaches at Conserve School
PEOPLE at EAA/Oshkosh
Team participating in the LEGO
First Competition
High School Workshop, August 2003
Neptune GLOBE at ASTC – St. Paul, MN
Rosalyn at the Future
Technologies Conference
Physics of Star Trek lecture
by Lawrence Krauss at
Space Place
Sanjay at the 90th Indian Science
Congress presenting GLOBE
Sanjay at the NSTA Ask-AScientist Booth
Teaching Space Science Workshop for High School Teachers
Environmental Literacy, Outreach, and Higher Education
CIMSS/ORA gave lectures on
remote sensing in Maratea, Italy
in May 2003 that generate
new collaborations on cloud
studies.
CIMSS hosted 3 day workshop
“Sounding from High Spectral
Resolution IR Observations”
in May 2003.
CIMSS awarded Suomi Fellowships to four outstanding
WI high school seniors (Kevin A. Eichinger, Jenna M. Helbing,
Amanda Kis, Theodore V. Lyons III) in Jun 2003
CIMSS/ORA hosted Workshop on Satellite Data Applications
and Information Extraction in Aug 2003
CIMSS/ORA conducted a training seminar at the BoM in
Melbourne, Australia in Sep 2003
CIMSS/ORA taught a course in remote sensing at Curtin
University in Perth, Australia in Aug-Nov 2003
Environmental Literacy, Outreach, and Education
Manatee and airatee s/w used in
classrooms around the world
to illustrate
multispectral investigations of
land, ocean, and atmosphere
Tom
Whitaker &
Tom Rink
SSEC
We have
MANY
more than
three rings
going at
once
C. Special Events (1)
1. Chris Velden received the Richard Hagemeyer Award, issued by
NOAA Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology (OFCM),
for excellent contributions to the nations hurricane warning services
(nominations received from NOAA, Navy, and Air Force).
Congratulations to the whole Tropical Cyclones group
2. International TOVS Study Conference: Tom Achtor (ITWG CoChair) and Leanne Avila were key to the great success after SARS
forced a move from Beijing, China to outside Montreal, Canada
3. Bob Knuteson received the ITSC award for Best Oral Presentation
4. UW Science Expeditions outreach effort included the
SSEC AERI-bago, thanks to Terri Gregory and Leanne Avila, with
great participation by Bob Holz & Denny Hackel
5. Pao Wang found the true meaning of MODIS
Pao Wang’s
Insight on the
real MODIS
C. Special Events (2)
6. Allen Huang chaired National Academy of Sciences Committee
on Environmental Satellite Data Utilization, assisted by
Brian Osborne and Rose Pertzborn
7. Press release on AIRS quoted SSEC Director as echoing Mous
Chahine in characterizing AIRS as “a virtual gold mine of information”
8. Building highlights from JoAnn Banks’ crew include, paint throughout, Data Center power upgrade, Wisconsin Energy Initiative (WEI)
actions (Storm Windows, Campus thermostat, Heating, Ventilating,
& Air Conditioning controls), and preparations for the new
21st Century Network
9. ATS-3 History from Darryn Schneider: Longest lived satellite
10. Nightmare at Lockheed: it’s harder than it looks
ATS-3 Still Lives: A bit of History
(first color spin-scan camera)
Darryn Schneider:
In 99/00,… the first call I made from
pole was using ATS-3 to my wife.
The quality of the call
really did make it feel
a long way away!
(But it still worked)
Nightmare!
(NOAA N’ at Lockheed)
C. Special Events (3)
11. Tim Schmit says “ASPT rocks! First item on Vice Admiral
Lautenbacher, Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and
Atmosphere, “True Team Effort” was
*NOAA composite image of Hurricane Isabel (9/7-19/2003)*
Courtesy, Advanced Satellite Products Team.
12. SSEC and Madison rock too! SSEC featured the “Sundogs”
performing on the roof and Rolling Stone picked Madison as #5
“Campus Scenes that Rock”.
Rumors have it that the AOSS “Sundogs” helped
Madison get Selected
On Wisconsin
C. Special Events (4)
13. NASA Group Achievement Awards received for the Aqua Mission
MODIS (Paul Menzel and Steve Ackerman) &
AIRS (Dave Tobin & Hank) Teams
Congratulations to the long list of you that made this happen!
14. Dave Martin keeps the words coming:
With his Co-editor for the J Applied Met,
28 manuscripts were either accepted,
rejected, or transferred.
15. Tom Whittaker received the Unidata
de Sousa award “for playing an
instrumental role in molding Unidata’s future…”
16. MODIS tells us that the seasons change & other relevant things
NWS Features MODIS Autumn from CIMSS
(October 6 Compared to October 10)
Ground Truth
in Madison
10 October
1 week later on my street
11 & 19 October 2003
We should look at MODIS one week later
Dust Storm: Texas looks like Mars
from Aqua MODIS, 15 December 2003
C. Special Events (5)
17. Chuck Stearns, will be named a Fellow of the American
Meteorological Society at January’s annual meeting, for his years
of pioneering work in the study of Antarctic weather, particularly
for founding the Automatic Weather Station program for
Antarctica and developing the AWSs to better withstand the
continent’s rigors.
18. Cloud of the Year
Cloud highlight of 2003
A Beautiful Mushroom Cloud
Mt Hood Cap Cloud
Special Personal Events
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Two Graduations (Nate and Megan)
One Engagement (Megan and Nick)
Nate-Massage School
Megan-Law School
How we stay strong
If you are doing these things
(and I think you are)
keep it up
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Look for the easy, important problems first
But, don’t be afraid to tackle the hard onesThey often lay the foundation for the future
Look for the common threads
and bring things together
Enjoy and challenge each other
Enjoy the Party soon to follow