Status Report on the
Antarctic Meteorological
Research Center
May 2004 to May 2005
Matthew A. Lazzara, Shelley L. Knuth,
Charles R. Stearns,
Linda M. Keller and Jessica A. Staude
Antarctic Meteorological Research Center
Space Science and Engineering Center
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Outline
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Composite Improvements
Annual Review
Activities w/NOAA, NCDC & WMO
Antarctic-IDD (Another talk…)
X-band System for Antarctica
Future Activities
Composite Improvements
Using more satellites:
NOAA & DMSP (from Palmer)
Terra & Aqua (Not from McMurdo)
Meteosat-8 (aka MSG-1)
Tried out FY2-C & Kalpana
Problems with Nav. and Cal.
Composite Improvements
Annual Review: Data Holdings
Generated
Data and
Products
Satellite
Imagery and
Data
Model
Observational
Analyses and Data (GTS/
Forecasts
NOAAPORT)
Text Data
(GTS etc.)
USAP
Station Data
Antarctic
Composites
•IR
•WV
•VIS
experimental
•PsuedoColor
NOAA
•HRPT
(McMurdo
only)
•GAC
(Project
FROST/by
request)
•LAC
(Iceberg)
NCEP
•GFS
•WWFM
METAR
METAR
(McMurdo
area &
South
Pole)
South Pole
Met Office
(UK)
PIREP/AIREP
TAF
(McMurdo
Area)
Palmer
ECMWF
(Europe)
Synoptic
(US and ABoM)
AIREP
(New
Zealand
Region)
McMurdo
DMSP
•OLS
•SSM/I
(Real time
only)
AMPS
(Real time
only)
Radiosonde
USAP Ship
SITREPS
Including
NCDC Data
holdings up
to 1998
CRAS
(Real time
only)
Ship & Buoy
UW & SPAWAR
AWS Data
GMS/GOES
Satellite
wind charts
(Courtesy of
CIMSS)
MODIS Winds
Coming soon
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Antarctic composite
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Data Requests
Domestic
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Paul Dalrymple, Antarctican Society
Kelly Admunsen, BPRC/OSU
David Yu, AMANDA/UW-Madison
Scott Polk, VIMS
Mark Seefeldt, CU
Amanda Adams, AOS/UW-Madison
Rebecca Wolf, US Naval Academy
Kathleen Allen
Ryan Fogt, BRPC/OSU
Gonzolo Hernandez, U. Washington
SPAWAR
RPSC
Doug MacAyeal, U. Chicago
Bob Bundschuh
International
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Stefano Di Battista, Italy
Pascale Bilodeau, Canada
Satyendra Bhandari, India
Narelle Baker, New Zealand
N.C. Sheeba, Malaysia
Clare Oatley, Australia
Irene Lopez Garrido, Spain
Elizabeth Parer-Cook, Australia
There are more….
Educational Outreach
• SSEC Public Tours, UW-Madison
Madison Area Technical
College, Madison, WI
Deerfield Middle School,
Deerfield, WI
Lodi Area Middle School,
Lodi, WI
Deerfield Elementary,
Deerfield, WI
Holland’s Hearts & Hands
Preschool Deerfield,
WI
– Hundreds of visitors
• ~1100 E-mails
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Two way exchanges
Answering questions
Provided data or information
Students and general public
• Grandparents University, UWMadison, Madison, WI
• CASPER homeless grade school
project, UW-Madison, Madison, WI
• Wisconsin State Fair, West Allis, WI
• CIMSS/Wisconsin Space Grant
Consortium Workshop on Earth,
Atmospheric & Space Sciences,
Madison, WI
Item 1: CLIMAT Messages
• Monthly climate summary sent over GTS for WMO
• CLIMAT – Surface observations
– Request for McMurdo, South Pole, Palmer
– Possible future funding support from NCDC for back generation
of South Pole
• Beta version of WMO software (requires a full climatology!)
• AMRC & RPSC joint project
– Critical issue with average computation (max/min vs. hourly)
– Request for Wisconsin AWS (~19 of them)
• CLIMAT TEMP – Upper Air observations
– Request for McMurdo, South Pole
– Can be done now with newly installed radiosonde systems
Item 2: NOAA TG
• NOAA Telecommunications Gateway (TG)
– To GTS (Worldwide)
– To NOAAPORT (Domestic/civilian)
• Request to put non-WMO assigned UW AWS on GTS
– Likely to be coded as SYNOP MOBIL format
– Likely done on a 3 hourly basis
• Applied for NOAA TG FTP account
– Not yet assigned
• NOAA TG account will have dual use:
– AWS SYNOP MOBIL
– AWS CLIMAT
McMurdo’s X-band System:
Direct Broadcast MODIS Polar Winds
With thanks to:Jeff Key
1Office
of Research and Applications, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison
McMurdo DB MODIS Products: Winds & Cloud Mask
Currently only two products are generated: polar winds and the cloud mask. Examples are given
below. Future products will include cloud particle phase, cloud top pressure, cloud optical depth,
surface temperature (ice and sea), and surface albedo.
MODIS Polar Winds Real-Time Processing Time Direct Broadcast MODIS Data at McMurdo
Processing times are for the middle image in a 3-orbit triplet. Actually processing time from image
acquisition to availability of wind vectors is 100 minutes (1.67 hrs) less than shown. MODIS images
are available (image acquisition to level 1b) in 20-30 minutes. Winds processing takes an addition
10-15 minutes.
http://stratus.ssec.wisc.edu/products/db/mcmurdo
• Continue AMRC traditional activities
• Antarctic composite improvements
Future
Activities
– Include FY2-C and Kalpana as cal./nav. are improved
– Test out AWC code to have improved visible composites
• Continue climatological work
– McMurdo (related to Matt’s PhD)
– Special work with South Pole (NCDC)
• Case studies
– Special fog collection (related to Shelley’s MS & Matt’s PhD)
– Others
• Continued Cloud Mass Transport (CMT) studies
– Jessica to start back up again this summer/fall
• Antarctic-IDD
– More on this in another talk…
• More…(Aussie AWS decoded real time, etc…)
Comparing South Pole Observations
• Joint South Pole Meteorology Office
and AMRC effort – checkout of new
instrumentation system
• Compare one year overlap of datasets:
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Old South Pole instruments
New South Pole instruments
Clean Air AWS
CMDL/Clean Air observations (if
available)
• Publish results!
• Thanks to Kathie Hill and Linda Keller
on this effort
• More next year…
E-mail Lists: Please Join Today!
• ANTIDD – Antarctic-IDD mailing list
• ANTDISCUSSION – Antarctic meteorology discussion group
• ANTAWS - Information and updates on AWS data
• ANTOBS - Information and updates on all other
observational datasets
• ANTOPS - Notices on AMRC’s real-time data
availability, distribution and status
• ANTICEBERG - Notices on latest Iceberg monitoring
images posted to the web site
• ANTCOMMUNITY - Infrequent notices to the Antarctic
community on events and significant developments
E-mail: amrc@ssec.wisc.edu to join!
Questions and Answers
Thank you to NSF/OPP
• E-mail
– amrc@ssec.wisc.edu
– aws@ssec.wisc.edu
• Web
– http://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu
– http://ice.ssec.wisc.edu
• FTP
– ftp://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu
– ftp://ice.ssec.wisc.edu
• Phone
– (608) 262-0436
– (608) 265-4816
• FAX
– (608) 263-6738
– (608) 262-5974
• Post
– 1225 West Dayton St.
Madison, WI 53706
USA