State of the Center
Hank Revercomb
SSEC Director
Preparation for
Holiday Party
13 December 2001
Thank You for another great year
Focus this year is on a group that’s all too easy to
take for granted, because they do their jobs so well
X Administrative and technical support to all of us
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Sally Loy, Angela Pagel, Jean Stover in Personnel, Payroll & Fringe Benefits
Polly Ruff in Grants and Contracts
Dave Allen, Kelly Roth & Gretchen Fitzgerald in Purchasing, Inventory, Accounting Systems
Jean Phillips & Linda Hedges in the Library
Marlene McCaffery & her students, Jean Bridwell, Judy Mohr for a wide range of
organizational support
Bob Oehlkers, Dave Jones, Mike Becker, Jim Sinclair, Jim Maynard,
John Randall, Paul Schnettler with technical support
Scott Nolin, Endre Doeringsfeld, Steve Wanzong, Paul Wisniewski, Matt Meuller in
Technical Computing
Mike Dean, Leanne Avila, & Janine Gumley as invaluable individuals
Terri Gregory in Public Relations & Media
Wenhua Wu, Diane Daly, Debbie Schroeder in Accounting Services
State of the Center
December 2001
• What’s the purpose of this annual event?
> It’s a chance to remember some of the things we
have done well
> It’s a chance to identify problem areas that we
need to address together
> It’s a chance to review where we are heading
• This year has brought major changes to
conditions on the National & State level,
but fortunately SSEC is faring well
I’m confident that we can feel very safe about
the SSEC state of health and our strong future
Really, we are doing well, but always need to be alert for problems
Please let us know if you see
problems developing
X
3-Person Executive Directorship
– Exec. Director, Admin:
John Roberts
– Exec. Director, Science:
Tom Achtor
– Exec.Director, Technology: Fred Best
X
They, along with our in-house NOAA Team
Leader, Jeff Key
Email is great, but beware...
Topics
X Financial
Health
X Structural
Status: How are our
Center-level support structures working?
X Review
Year’s Events &
Accomplishments
X Vision:
Where are we headed?
Financial Health: Looking Good
X
X
Last year we said ”Through your hard work, we
have turned the corner and the trend is positive”
Now we are almost there ... The financial
Challenge will soon be Maintenance
X
At this point, another challenge has become the
need for more people to help get the work done-Think about recruiting good people
Millions
SSEC Finances
$2.0
$2.0
$1.0
$1.0
Net Cash Assets
$0.0
$0.0
-$1.0
-$1.0
Cash Balance
-$2.0
May-99
-$2.0
Nov-99
May-00
Nov-00
May-01
Nov-01
Labor Percentage Billable
90%
80%
Break Even (72%)
70%
60%
50%
Nov-96
Nov-97
Nov-98
Nov-99
Nov-00
Nov-01
Structural Status:
Our new system is still working well
X
SSEC Council is an invaluable source of sound
advice and reason for setting Science Policy
X
3-Person Executive Directorship implements
Science Policy--many thanks to an especially
strong, capable, hard-working group of friends
X
Overhead Policy: Open reporting and review
of overhead spending is in place, and
SSEC personnel can apply to use overhead in
ways that are good investments for the Center
SSEC Council Membership, January 2001
Faculty
Science Area
1. Prof. Steve A. Ackerman, AOS, CIMSS Dir
2. Dr. W. Paul Menzel, AOS Adjunct Professor
& Senior Scientist of NOAA/NESDIS/ORA
3. Prof. John A. Young, Chair AOS
Radiation/Clouds/Climate
Operational Weather/
Climate
Atmospheric Dynamics
4. Prof. Francis Halzen, Physics
Ice Cube -Neutrinos
5. Prof. Mike Corradini, Eng Assoc Dean,
Eng Physics, Mechanical Eng,
Inst Environmental Studies
SSEC Senior Academic Staff
Energy Policy,
Nuclear safety
Science Area
1. Dr. Henry E. Revercomb, SSEC Dir,
Council Chair
Remote Sensing, Earth &
Other Planets
2. Dr. Lawrence A. Sromovsky, Senior Sci
Planetary Atmospheres
3. Dr. William L. Hibbard, Senior Sci
Visualization (VisAD,5D)
4. Dr. George R. Diak, Senior Sci
Agriculture/Surface/PBL
5. Dr. Edwin W. Eloranta, Senior Sci
LIDAR Clouds/Aerosols
Blue = Observing Science
Purple = Analytical Science
Green = Computational Science
Red = Externally Led Science
Structural Status
(Institutes/Centers)
Cooperative Institute with NOAA & NASA
(CIMSS) celebrated 20th anniversary 12/2000
& continues to grow--Very successful Science
Review & Board Meeting recently completed
X Antarctic Astronomy & Astrophysics Reseach
Institute (A3RI) made great strides in
establishing an effective mode of operation to
handle the challenges of its new programs
X Antarctic Meteorology Research Center
(AMRC) has successfully maintained a unique
role in monitoring Antarctic conditions
X
Structural Status
X
(Continued)
Strengthening the bond with AOS
> Joint research projects (Remote Sensing & Modeling)
> Participation in Faculty Start-up Packages
> Enhanced use of SSEC satellite data in AOS
X
Challenges (same as last year):
> Dealing with growth (increase from 215 to 253)
+ Recruiting more good people
+ Space
I survived my Office Move,
thanks to help from my friends
Hope it goes well for others who will be moving this year
Year’s Events & Accomplishments
X Continuing
Broad-based Science
& Applications
X Major
New Programs
X Other
Key Events
X Awards
Broad-based Science & Applications (1)
X
1st AIRS (& 2nd MODIS):
Aqua Launch Scheduled for March 24
X
High Spectral Resolution Observations:
Aircraft (Scanning HIS & NAST) & ADEOS IMG
X
MODIS & Direct Broadcast continue Successes
(2000th overpass collected 9 December 2001)
X
GOES: New & Improved Products +
Many Products getting into NWP Models
(GOES 12, 1st image 17 August 2001,
Science testing of GOES 11 and 12)
AIRS before Aqua integration, Aqua
shake test & simulated AIRS spectrum
Wavenumber (cm-1)
Scanning-HIS: Aircraft interferometer
for NASA ER-2 and DC-8
University of Wisconsin, Space Science and Engineering Center
NAST/FIRSC Payload on Proteus
• NPOESS Atmospheric Sounder Testbed Interferometer (NAST-I) Microwave (NAST-M)
• Far-Infrared Sensor for Cirrus (FIRSC)
NAST-M
NAST-I
FIRSC
Okavanga Delta Mapping
1st Image from Scanning HIS ( 27 Aug 2000)
Scanning HIS: 2 km footprints
Tb (980-985 cm-1)
MODIS: 0.25 km
0.65 µm
Surface Emissivity, a new emphasis
Namibian Land (11 September 2000)
Brightness T
325
METEOSAT
Kalahari
275 Kuiseb
Emissivity
1.0
Namibian Coast
•Kuiseb River Canyon
[Dunes (left)≈Desert pavement]
• Kalahari Desert (Vegetated)
•Ocean
0.6
750
Wavenumber (cm-1)
1250
MAS
ARM SGP Central Facility Site:
North-South Survey 29 November 2000
Surface Emissivity
Validation with AERI
A survey was conducted on Nov 29
to characterize the surface type and
spectral emissivity in the vicinity of
the ARM SGP Central Facility site.
S-AERI
(aka AERI-Bago)
6
1
5
4 2
4
6
55
16
Winter Wheat
Pasture (Dry)
BareSoil
Rubble
Soybean (Dry)
MiloSorghum (Dry)
Lowlands
Trees
Buildings
IMG (Interferometer for Monitoring Greenhouse Gases)
ADEOS
Bare surface detection from IR Signature (10 µm - 8.7 µm Tb)
IMG yielded
a small, very high
resolution
Global Data Set
Fire Radiometric Signature
(1 Sept Night Flight, 7 Sept Controlled Burn)
mW/m2 sr cm-1
• High temperature and enhanced CO2 provide a unique
“blue Spike” signature in high resolution spectra
7
0
T(K)
350
250
1900
Wavenumber (cm-1)
2800
MAS
CO Detection over Fire
(1 Sept Night Flight)
Brightness Temperature (4.09, 4.66 µm)
315
275
Optical Depth Estimate
0.7
METEOSAT
Column CO
doubles over
the fire
0
17:45
Time (UTC)
17:54
Snowcover in New England
MODIS 12-10-01 16:00Z
Bands 1, 6, 7 @ 250 meters
UW-Madison EOS Direct Broadcast
Winds from MODIS: An Arctic Example
Cloud-track winds (left) and water vapor winds (right) from MODIS for a case in the western
Arctic. The wind vectors were derived from a sequence of three images, each separated by 100
minutes. They are plotted on the first 11 µm (left) and 6.7 µm (right) images in the sequence.
MODIS TPW for June 2, 2001: New Algorithm
30 November 2001
Slides for CIMSS Board Meeting
MODIS TPW for June 2, 2001: Operational Algorithm
30 November 2001
Slides for CIMSS Board Meeting
GOES-9 Satellite
removed from storage
GOES-9 Visible:
Data received only
at SSEC
GOES Cloud Top Pressure (CTP)
using new 13.3 µm Channel
GOES-12
Imager
GOES-8 Sounder
Advantages of the GOES-12 Imager
over the Sounder Cloud Product
• hemispheric coverage
• more frequent coverage
• improved resolution
GOES-12 Sounder
New Product Development -- CTP possible with GOES-12 Imager.
Tropical Storm Florence 13 Sep 2000 0300 UTC
SWIR (Shortwave IR) cloud-drift winds: enhanced imagery/settings
600-800 hPa > 34 kts
801-950 hPa > 34 kts
New Product Development -- Winds from 3.9 µm for determining
night-time low-level flow.
One month average emissivity for 05/11/00 - 06/12/00 at 10 UTC
dark blue areas (ελsfc < 0.80) - missing data
0.98
Latitude
LW
0.90
0.80
0.98
Latitude
SW
Current Product Improvement -- improved retrievals with
a more rigorous surface emissivity
0.90
0.80
GOES in NWP, routine and experimental:
Model
NCEP Global
GOES Data
Sounder Radiance, Imager Winds, Imager Radiances
Eta Model
Sounder Radiance, Sounder PW, Imager Winds,
Sounder Clouds
FSL’s RUC
Sounder TPW, Sounder Clouds (soon)
CIMSS CRAS
Sounder PW, Sounder Clouds
Australia (LAPS)
Imager Winds
ECMWF
Imager Winds, Imager Radiances
GFDL (experimental)
Imager Winds, GWINDEX rapid-scan winds
NOGAPS
Imager Winds, Sounder Winds
NAAPS
Biomass Fire Product
CSU RAMS
Biomass Fire Product
(University of Sao Paulo/NASA-Ames)
UW ALEXI
Sounder Skin Temperature time-change
Data Assimilation -- CIMSS has a role in every listed GOES product
Eta model with and without GOES Sounder Clouds
Note that the high clouds
off the East Coast were
correctly removed when
GOES Sounder cloud
data were assimilated.
Data Assimilation -- Clouds
Verifying GOES-8 Imager Infrared Image
Adjustment of the 6.7 um
water vapor field in the model
(0000 UTC 15 Sep 2000)
Initial eta field in CRAS model
GOES observations (Ch 3)
using recursive filter
1.
2.
Eta model field modified by
assimilation of GOES observations
GOES 8/10 Imager Clear-Sky Brightness Temperature product
New Product Development -- Imager radiances being run for
global modelers (NCEP & ECMWF)
Data Counts
GOES Imager 6.7 µm
Clear-Sky Brightness Temperature
Analysis from ECMWF
Data Mean
GOES minus Model
New Product Development -- Preliminary ECMWF results are positive.
Broad-based Science & Applications (2)
X FIRE
Product: Becoming Operational
March 2002
X Hurricane
Forecasting: Lots of Data users
X VisAD: The new visualization capability
is really catching on in research
Vis5D, as a sign of success & maturity, no longer needs
development at SSEC--it has a life of its own as
(1) NOAA Forecast Systems Lab's D3D,
(2) Vis5D+ project run by folks at MIT & NCAR,
(3) Cave5D project at Argonne
GOES-8 Wildfire ABBA Summary
Composite of Half-Hourly Fire
Observations for the Western
Hemisphere
Time Period:
September 1, 2000 to August 31, 2001
Biomass Burning
Wildfires
Agricultural Burning
Crops and Pasture
Recent Road Construction
Desert/Grassland Border
Deforestation/maintenance
The composite shows the much higher
incidence of burning in Central and South
America, primarily associated with
deforestation and agricultural management.
Fire Pixel Distribution
30-70°N: 9%
10-30°N: 15%
70°S-10°N: 76%
Website Access to Hurricane Research
--20,000/day
Dense Wind Vectors from Hurricane Keith:
Impressive VISAD Display at Satellite Conference
Quality-controlled
Winds from all
GOES Satellites
generated every 3 hrs
Gail Dengel
Broad-based Science & Applications (3)
X Planetary
Science: observing and
instrument development
X Lidar-based
X Major
science
field programs
– WVIOP 2000/AFWEX in Oklahoma
– Terra Validation
» Texas 2001
(Hutchenson Natural Gas)
» CLAMS
SSEC Planetary Atmospheres Research
Participants: Larry Sromovsky, Pat Fry, Sanjay Limaye
Current Targets:
Jupiter
Uranus
Neptune
Objectives: Circulation, Cloud Structure, Composition
Tools: In situ
and remote
Imaging and
Spectroscopy
IRTF
HST
Galileo
2001 Results:
• New cloud structure for Jupiter deduced: Consistent
with Galileo probe & HST methane-band observations
• New circulation features on Neptune discovered &
Clouds Characterized
SSEC Research on Planetary Atmospheres: sample data
255nm
336nm
410nm
467nm
588nm
619nm
631nm
673nm
850nm
890nm
1100nm
1600nm
2050nm
2120nm
Spectral differences in Rayleigh scattering and methane and hydrogen
absorptions are used to probe the vertical cloud structure of Neptune.
Waves and anticyclones (seen in blue), high altitude clouds (red to near-IR).
Planetary Imaging FTS (PIFTS):
Continued
Development with
GIFTS/ABS
Connections
AERI
PIFTS
Radiometric
Comparisons
with AERI
Nov 2001
New Arctic HSRL (High Spectral Resolution Lidar)
Headed for North Slope of Alaska in 2002
Arctic HSRL looking Up: “First Light”
Water Vapor Intensive Operations
In Situ Sensors
Mailbox Vaisala
60m Tower
Microwave
ARM MWR
ARM Tower
Sonde
LIDAR
ARM Raman
NASA Raman
MPI DIAL
Water Vapor IOP 2000 & ARM
FIRE Water Vapor Experiment
Onion
… and thirty grown-ups try to determine how much
WVIOP 2000 and AFWEX
Southern Great Plains ARM Site Water Vapor Experiments
WVIOP 2000: 18 Sept - 8 Oct 2000. Goal: 2% pwv
AFWEX: 27 Nov - 15 Dec 2000. Goal: 10% of uppermost 0.1mm
Sensors: Microwave Radiometers, Vaisala and VIZ radiosondes, chilled mirror
sondes, ground and tower based in-situ sensors, Raman Lidar, ground and ac-based
DIAL, GPS, solar, AERI, SHIS, NASTI, GOES, aircraft based frost point hygrometer,
tunable diode laser hygrometer
Current Perspective:
• MWR, tower scaled Raman Lidar, and nighttime corrected sondes agreeing to ~3 %
in pwv. GPS, Solar, raw sondes all drier by 3-10 %.
• Sondes are ~20% drier than Raman Lidar at 8-12km, but upper level “truths” (in-situ)
agreeing better with sondes than with Raman Lidar.
MODIS Emissive Band
Cal/Val from ER-2 Platform
MAS 11um
• Transfer S-HIS cal to MAS
• Co-locate MODIS FOV on MAS
• Remove spectral, geometric dependence
• WISC-T2000, SAFARI-2000, TX-2001
MODIS on
Terra
MODIS FOV
Windows
MAS, SHIS
on ER-2
θ
705 km
CO2
20 km
H2O
CO2
Methane Map Sensitivity
Cross-track “limb darkened” by ~15% (upper) & flattened (lower)
--Demonstrates sensitivity to 3-5 % changes in total optical depth
Clear
segment
flying south
to ARM site
3-31-01
1844 UTC
20 km N of
DOE ARM
Central
Facility
Broad-based Science & Applications (4)
X AERI:
Severe weather now-casting
X RESAC (Regional Earth Science
Applications Center): Data & Modeling
for Agriculture, Water, & Forestry
X Instrumenting
an Iceberg: AMRC
(Antarctic Meteorological Research Center)
Automatic Weather Stations
AERI SYSTEMS AROUND THE WORLD
UW AERI - 2 (AERIBAGO, SSEC)
DOE AERI - 7 (Kansas/Oklahoma, Alaska, S. Pacific)
U-Miami M-AERI - 3 (Florida)
Bomem AERI - 5 (Italy, California, Maryland, Canada,
Australia)
U Idaho P-AERI - 1 (Antarctica)
Low-level Moisture-Flux Convergence from AERI & Profilers
Prior to the 3 May 1999 Oklahoma City Tornadoes
1902
UTC
2045 UTC
Purcell AERI
2202 UTC
2302 UTC
AERI T, WV
+
Profiler Winds
=
Indication of
Convective
Instability
AERI Used in Oklahoma Forecast
From: Robert Rabin
To: Wayne Feltz
Dan Miller at the OKC forecast office mentioned the use of AERI
in his forecast discussion update at 1041 CST today (25 Jan 01).
IMPRESSIVE FAST MOVING TROF CURRENTLY MOVING INTO NRN NEW MEX WILL
MOVE RAPIDLY EWD THRU THIS EVENING. LATEST VIS/WV SAT IMAGERY AND
RADAR LOOP FROM KAMA INDICATES THAT STRONG DEEP LAYER FORCING FOR
UVV IS NOW BEGINNING TO MIGRATE EWD ONTO THE HIGH PLAINS WITH
EXPANDING CLOUD SHIELD AND WEAK RADAR ECHOES NOW EVIDENT. JET
DYNAMICS ARE QUITE IMPRESSIVE AND ALSO VERY FOCUSSED WITH NEARLY 40
KNTS OF ALONG STREAM SHEAR FROM ERN NM TO CENT OK IN ADVANCE OF 110
KT SPEED MAX ENTERING ERN NM. THE NOSE OF SAID SPEED MAX IS PROGGED
BY THE LATEST RUC GUIDANCE TO PROPAGATE ACROSS THE CENT TEX
PANHANDLE AND INTO NW OK BY THIS EVENING. 12Z UA ANAL AND CURRENT
AERI RETRIEVED SOUNDINGS ACROSS THE AREA INDICATE THAT LAPSE RATES
AND AVAILABLE MOISTURE ARE MUCH MORE FAVORABLE FOR PRECIP ALONG AND
TO THE NORTH OF THE JET AXIS. THUS..WE WILL BE TONING DOWN THE POPS
WITH THIS UPDATE ACROSS MOST AREAS BUT THE WC/NW/NC OK. FIRST
IMPRESSION THIS MORNING WAS TO PULL MENTION OF SNOW OUT IN THE NW..BUT
AFTER FURTHER REVIEW WILL LEAVE IT IN AS UVVS WILL BE VERY
IMPRESSIVE BY 00Z IN THE NW. STRONG UVVS AND STEEP LAPSE RATES MAY
EVEN RESULT IN A FEW LIGHTNING STRIKES THIS EVE.
Precision Agricultural-Landscape Modeling System (PALMS)
Soil Properties
(Penetrometer)
GOES Insolation
Soil Moisture
Drainage
Topography
Inputs
Outputs
Yield
Grain Moisture
Hourly Weather
Automatic Weather
Station (AWS)
Installation on
Iceberg B-15A
Ross Sea
Antarctica
UW SSEC AWS
* 2 AWS/GPS
* 1 GPS only
* Track location
& rotation
* Track weather
Water Vapor
Antarctic
Composites
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Real-time AWS Decoding at SSEC!
-------------------------------------------* Forecasting * Weather Research
* Education
* Data Archival
Major new Programs
X
X
X
X
X
X
GIFTS (Geostationary Imaging FT Spectrometer):
Implementation Phase to start 28 January
Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI)
Follow-on Operational Advanced Baseline Sounder (ABS)
& Imager (ABI) Requirements getting set
IceCube: The venture to map the neutrino sources in the
universe is now real ($15 M for FY2002)
Ice Coring and Drilling Services (ICDS):
Hot Water Drill is major challenge for IceCube
ASTRO-E2 & BEST: Re-fly of X-ray experiment from
ASTRO-E & new X-ray and UV proposal to investigate
diffuse background
The Next Major Advance
in Observing from Geo
16,000 Temperature, Humidity
& Trace Gas Profiles in 10 sec
Global Sounding in < 10 min
High resolution Sounding of
6000 x 6000 km in < 30 min
Dense Wind Observations,
tracked from Water Vapor Sdgs
SSEC Role for NASA:
-Calibration Subsystem & SW
-NMP Met Processing
-Concept Validation
SSEC Role for NOAA Demo:
-Level 0-2 Processing & Archive
MURI: Techniques for Meteorological Characterization
from GIFTS-IOMI (Indian Ocean METOC Imager)
GIFTS-IOMI 4 km “Cube”
Point Weather Data
• Marine Inversion
• Aerosol & dust detection
• Flight-level & directional
visibility
• Flight-level turbulence
• SST for engine efficiency
• Surface characterization
Model Generated Clouds
Upper Left :
Upper Right :
Middle :
Lower Left :
Lower Right :
MM5 model using Kain-Fritsch Cumulus Scheme with Blackadar BL
MM5 model using Kain-Fritsch Cumulus Scheme with Gayno_Seaman BL
UW NMS model
MM5 model using Grell Cumulus Scheme with Blackadar BL
MM5 model using Grell Cumulus Scheme with Gayno_Seaman BL
MM5 K-F BBL
MM5 K-F G_S BL
UW NMS
MM5 Grell BBL
MM5 Grell G_SBL
GIFTS/IOMI Radiance Cubes
Realistic Simulations from UW NMS
700 1/cm
2000 1/cm
900 1/cm
750 1/cm
1658 1/cm
ABI spatial coverage rate versus
the current GOES Imager
ABI coverage in 5 minutes
GOES coverage in 5 minutes
Antarctic Astronomy and
Astrophysics Research Institute
Leadership
Director: Jay Gallagher (Astronomy)
Exec. Dir: Bob Paulos (SSEC)
Projects
IceCube: Francis Halzen, PI
(Physics)
Amanda: Bob Morse, PI (Physics)
Ice Coring and Drilling Services:
Charles Bentley, PI (Geology)
Antarctic Drilling & IceCube Truly fit the
“Believe It or Not” Category
Ice Coring & Drilling Services
X World-wide
support for ice coring &
drilling projects (Antarctica, Greenland,
Tibet), including new drill development
X Charles Bentley, Geology, PI
X Strong performance in recent Critical
Design Review of Hot Water Drill
that needs to go down about a mile!
IceCube, the Neutrino telescope
1 km3 detector buried up to
2.5 km in the South Pole ice
observes neutrinos from
astrophysical sources &
Earth’s atmosphere
X SSEC is playing the lead role
in management & engineering
X
Scientific American magazine referred to AMANDA
(the trail blazer) as “one of seven wonders of modern astronomy” !
UW Adiabatic Demagnitization
Refrigerator (ADR)
For ASTRO-E X-Ray Spectrometer
Holds detectors at 0.06 K
University of Wisconsin
Space Science and Engineering Center
BEST Mission:
High resolution spectroscopy & imaging of diffuse
warm and hot gas in the
universe
Wilt Sanders, PI
Co-I’s: 26!
$196 M
Combined observations of
UW/GSFC/LM Soft X-ray
Calorimeter
&
Johns Hopkins UV
Spectrometers & Imager
SSEC Space Flight Programs
UW High Speed Photometer (HSP) data from 1992 on HST
provides New Evidence for Black Holes
Observing the disappearance of matter
as it falls beyond the "event horizon”
provides direct evidence for the
existence of black holes
Using HSP data, Joseph F. Dolan (NASA's
GSFC) observed pulses of ultraviolet
light from clumps of hot gas fade and then
disappear as they swirled around a massive,
compact object called Cygnus XR-1.
The results are consistent with
what astronomers would
expect to see if matter were
really falling into a black hole
Other Key Events (1)
SSEC Office of Space Science Education:
WINNERS (Rose Pertzborn serving at NASA Hdq)
X Don Johnson: to help fill in “Valley of Death”
X 11th Annual AMS Satellite Conference at
Monona Terrace set new standard of excellence
X E-Theater: Fritz Hasler (SteveA guest appearances)
X New SSEC Web format & “real” WebMaster
X CIMSS News Magazine: revived and revised
X Technical Computing: Leadership transition very
successful
X CIRRUS for UnESS: Victim of “No new starts”
X
Origins of the universe,
Beginnings of life &
Habitability of our home planet
for Students, Teachers & Public
Don Johnson named NCEP Special Project
Scientist-will spend 1/4 time at NCEP
“Creating this new position is a signal of how serious we are
about continuing to improve our climate and weather models,”
said National Weather Service director, General Jack Kelly.
“NOAA will engage Dr. Johnson in its efforts to work with the
larger modeling community to develop the next generation of
global analysis and modeling systems needed to advance
operational weather climate.”
“Dr. Johnson's is a renowned expert in atmospheric energetics,
global circulation and the utilization of advanced research
models for analysis and prediction,” said NCEP director,
Louis Uccellini.
Organizations that he will interface with include:
NSF, NCAR & NASA
AMS 11th Annual Conference on
Satellite Meteorology & Oceanography
• Monona Terrace Convention Center, October 2001
• Almost 300 Participants
• > 40 posters from UW with 2 winning awards
• Invited presentations from Steve Ackerman, Elaine Prins
& Hank Revercomb
• Very successfully organized by Chris Velden,
with a new format allowing 30-45 minutes for
overview speakers & significant emphasis on poster
sessions focusing on particular areas of interest
E-Theater with Fritz Hasler:
AMS Satellite Conference, Monona Terrace,
WWW.SSEC.WISC.EDU/index.2002.html
Suggestions to Bill Bellon
WWW.SSEC.WISC.EDU/index.2002.html
Suggestions to Bill Bellon
CIMSS News Magazine is Back
Better than ever-With both hard copy
and Web Access
SSEC Technical Computing Highlights
Scott and his crew (Steve, Endre & Paul) did a great job sustaining
the high level of support provided by TC when their former leader
Steve Barnet left early this year
All were pleased when Matt Mueller came onboard to help in Aug.
In 2001, TC resolved 4,153 requests for help that were tracked with
about an equal number didn't make it into the queue.
New high-speed network for the center implemented by TC, along
with Bob Oehlkers, Bob's students, and Jim Sinclair.
Currently, about 410 machines have been moved to the new network.
Other Key Events (2)
Images from Space: Historical Impact, John Fauber,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
X Dave Martin: Editor for J. Applied Met, Satellite
Remote Sensing (2 manuscripts/mo for 10 months)
X McIDAS & Data Center add new data types
X National Museum of Emerging Science &
Innovation, Tokyo, Japan: SSEC Provides Data
X Holiday Lights on SSEC GOES Antennae
Thanks to Bob Oehlkers, Dave Jones, Jim Sinclair
Paul Schnettler & Kevin Ma
X
Global Perspective on History: John Fauber,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel & beyond
Challenger, ‘86
Kuwait oil fires, ‘92
Mt Etna 2001Eruption
9-11-2001
McIDAS & Data Center
McIDAS- Events
> NEXRAD: Now can serve and display NOAAPORT's data
(this was a big effort)
> 7.8 McIDAS Upgrade: May 2001
> McIDAS Users' Group Annual Meeting following AMS
Data Center- New data added
> FY1C - Chinese Polar Orbiter
> FY2B - Chinese Geostationary
> NOAA-16 - US Polar Orbiter
> GOES-12
> NEXRAD Radar data
SSEC also was first ingest & display the 1st GOES-12 image
Discover Magazine
January 2003
Abuses SSEC
Data
SSEC Provides Data for Real-time Display
on 6 m Globe in new Japanese Museum
Awards (1)
Chris Velden, Tim Olander, Steve Wanzong:
Banner Miller Award for papers on hurricane
forecasting (AMS 2001)
X Tom Whitaker and Scott Bachmeier: NOAA
Atmospheric Research & Applications Division
Trainer of the Year award for 2000 recognizing
work with VISITview
X Elaine Prins: For her leadership role at CIMSS
& quality of work in Fire detection, was awarded
NOAA Employee of the Month for May 2001
X
Awards (2)
Paul Menzel: NOAA Bronze Metal for Scientific
Leadership, both nationally and internationally in
the areas of space-based remote sensing
X Suomi Scholarships: Fourth annual awards for
outstanding achievement in the Physical Sciences
granted to 6 students
X
Vision of our Future
X
Right now, what we have been doing and are already
starting will keep us busy for many years
X
We are Advancing Earth Systems Science, Weather,
and Climate with New Observing, Retrieval Science,
Computer & Modeling Techniques
Effective use of new satellite data from
High Spectral Resolution Sounders (AIRS/ CrIS / IASI),
Many Channel Imagers (MODIS/VIIRS) , and the
combination (GIFTS) is a substantial challenge
New related earth science thrusts include data assimilation, aircraft safety, and higher resolution for CO2
X
X
Vision of our Future (2)
X
New Science Areas (A3RI//ICDS/IceCube)
offer another set of exciting challenges
X
We are still seeking a new Spaceflight
instrument development program like BEST,
CIRRUS for UnESS, or a Discover mission for
Planetary Research
Keep thinking creatively
Aircraft Connection to Cirrus Clouds:
Early 9-11 Results from NASA LaRC
Aircraft Connection to Cirrus Clouds:
Extreme Example 2-11-99, AVHRR RGB
Large-scale Smog from GOES-8 RGB