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2006 STAR Seminars


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Research Activities at the
Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS)

Speakers Dr. Phil Arkin, Director
CICS
Date Friday, November 17, 2006 at noon
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Flow-Dependent Forecast Error Covariances in
Variational and Hybrid Variational/Ensemble Data Assimilation

Speakers Dr. Dale Barker
National Center for Atmospheric Research, (NCAR)
Date Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 2:00 p.m.
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Early Results from the COSMIC / FORMOSAT-3 Mission

Speakers Dr. Bill Kuo
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, Colorado
Date Tuesday, November 14, 2006 at 10:00 a.m.
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EMC and JCSDA:
Aerosol Optical Depth: Combining Different Data Sets from Remote Sensing to a Recommended Composite

Speakers Dr. Stefan Kinne
Max Planck Institute, Hamburg, Germany
Date Tuesday, October 24, 2006 at noon
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GOES Aviation Products:
Progress and Recent Developments

Presentation (PDF, 1.5 MB)

Speakers Ken Pryor
STAR/Operational Products Development Branch
Date Friday, October 20, 2006 at noon
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JCSDA presents:
NASA's Land Information System as a Testbed for JCSDA Partners and Investigators

NASA's Land Information System as a Testbed for JCSDA Partners and Investigators

Speakers Dr. Christa D. Peters-Lidard
NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center
Date Wednesday, October 18, 2006 at noon
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Meteorological Product Extraction at EUMETSAT

Slides and AVI files

Speakers Arthur de Smet, EUMETSAT
Date Friday, October 6, 2006 at 1:00pm
Abstract

In the past few years, European Meteorological Satellite (EUMETSAT) has increased the number of operational products extracted from satellite data. The presentation will give an overview of the current operational products. It will also discuss the ongoing work on improving the product quality and plans for the near future.


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JCSDA presents:
Observation Impact Monitoring For NAVDAS-NOGAPS

Presentation (PDF, 1.7MB)

Speakers Rolf Langland & Nancy Baker
Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA
Date Wednesday, September 20, 2006 at 2:00 - 3:00pm
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SSM/I and SSM/IS Calibration Issues and Implications for Climate Data Records

Speakers Fuzhong Weng, STAR/Satellite Calibration and Data Assimilation Branch
Ralph Ferraro, STAR/Satellite Climate Studies Branch
Date Friday, September 15, 2006 at 12:00pm
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JCSDA presents:
Error Estimates For Assimilation Of Satellite Sea Surface Temperature Data In Ocean Climate Models

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Speakers Jim Richman
Oregon State University
Date Wednesday, September 13, 2006 at 12:00pm
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The Effect of the 12µm Band:
Comparing GOES-11 and GOES-12 Data Using the 3-Channel Volcanic Ash Algorithm

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Speaker Emily Matson, Student, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, Virginia
Date Monday, August 28, 2006 at 10:00am
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Tropospheric Temperature Trend Derived From Microwave Sounding Unit When Calibrated Using Simultaneous Nadir Overpasses

Speaker Cheng-Zhi Zou, SMCD / EMB
Date Friday, August 18, 2006, from 12:00pm - 1:00pm
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JCSDA presents:
Space Weather in the Upper Atmosphere, Current Data Assimilation at SEC and Possible Use of COSMIC Data, and Future Use and Challenges of Physics-Based Space Weather Data Assimilation

Speakers Tim Fuller-Rowell, NOAA Space Environment Center (SEC)
Mihail Codrescu, NOAA Space Environment Center (SEC)
Date Wednesday, August 16, 2006 at 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Abstract Not available.

Title

Net Methane Emissions in Northern High Latitudes

Speaker Dr. Qianlai Zhuang
Purdue University, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences and Department of Agronomy, West Lafayette, IN
Date Monday, July 3, 2006 at 10:00am
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Ground-based All Sky Imaging Observation
for Cloud Macro Characteristics

Speaker Professor Daren Lu, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Date Thursday, June 29, 2006 at 10:00 am
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JCSDA presents:
Alignment Errors and Ensemble-Based Data Assimilation

Speaker Jim Hansen, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT
Date Wednesday, June 21, 2006 at 2:00pm
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A Global Eta Model on Quasi-uniform Grids

Speaker Hai Zhang, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Date Friday, June 16, 2006 at 10:00am
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Cloud remote sensing from satellites and the application for understanding aerosol indirect effects

Speaker Kazuaki Kawamoto, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan
Date Thursday, June 15, 2006 at 3:00pm
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Satellite Applications to Tropical Cyclone Analysis and Forecasting

Speakers Mark DeMaria, Kate Maclay, John Knaff, Ray Zehr and Tom Cram
NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR) Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch (RAMM) and the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)
Date Friday, April 21, 2006 at noon
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From GOES-N to GOES-R

Speakers Tim Schmit, CoRP, ASPD
Date Friday, March 17, 2006 at noon
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Development and Applications of Air Quality Products from NOAA Operational Satellites

Speakers Shobha Kondragunta, SMCD / SPB
Date Friday, February 17, 2006
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2005 Presentations

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NOAA Coral ReefWatch Calcification Index of Coral Reef Ecosystems

Speakers Dwight Gledhill, SOCD / MEB / Coral ReefWatch
Date Friday, December 19, 2005

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Ecological Nowcasting in the Chesapeake Bay

Speakers Christopher Brown, CoRP
Date Friday, November 18, 2005
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Trace Gas Products from High Resolution Infrared Instruments

Speakers Chris Barnet, CoRP, & Mitch Goldberg, SMCD
Date Friday, October 21, 2005
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