SSEC/CIMSS Researchers Honored at ITSC-18 in Toulouse

SSEC/CIMSS researchers Graeme Martin and Dave Tobin both received “Best Poster” awards at the International TOVS Study Conference (ITSC-18) in Toulouse, France...more

“Science Friday” Documents the Making of the Blue Marble

“Science Friday,” a weekly science talk show broadcast live over public radio stations nationwide as part of National Public Radio's “Talk of the Nation” programming, has featured a mini-documentary on the making of...more

GOES and POES Images of Lower North Fork Fire in Colorado

The "Lower North Fork Fire" began to burn near Aspen Springs, Colorado during the afternoon hours on 26 March 2012, quickly increasing...more

Sanjay Limaye to Give Talk on the 2012 Transit of Venus

Dr. Sanjay Limaye of SSEC will give a talk concerning the transit of Venus on 04 April 2012 at 7 pm for “Wednesday Night at the Lab”...more

CIMSS Severe Weather Nearcasting Model Predicts Southern Missouri Storms

CIMSS runs a prediction model that "near-casts" (out to 9 hours) the potential for the development of severe weather. The model is initialized hourly using...more

Beta Testing of IDEA-I Within IMAPP

A select group of Direct Broadcast users will begin beta testing of an open source, portable version of Infusing Satellite Data into Environmental Applications (IDEA), a satellite based aerosol forecasting, visualization, and data synthesis tool for use by...more

First VIIRS Data Imported into AWIPS

Suomi National Polar Partnership (Suomi NPP) Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) data were acquired, processed and converted into a format that could be displayed in...more

Satellite Imagery of Heavy Rainfall Event in Hawaii

The CIMSS Satellite Blog was updated with a post featuring Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-15), Polar Operational Environmental Satellite (POES/NOAA-15), Morphed Integrated Microwave Imagery at CIMSS (MIMIC) Total Precipitable Water, and satellite-derived winds products from a heavy rainfall event...more

Short Video on the Evolution of GOES

A short video on the evolution of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) was produced by the NOAA NESDIS Visualization Laboratory (NNVL).

Tim Schmit was interviewed as part of the NOAA 'Big Picture' event at annual American Meteorological Society (AMS).

New Group Formed to Study Unusual Weather

Dateline: 01 April 2012

In response to the record-breaking mild winter weather seen in Wisconsin through March, researchers at SSEC have convened a special study group, the Weather Transition Forum (WTF)...more