Director's Note

Fred Best

You may have been wondering about all the work that has been going on inside our building by the various trades groups for more than a year now. Here is my understanding of what was done...more

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Department News

Library

Satellite Data Compression, by Bormin Huang (ed.), has just been published by Springer. A first book on satellite data compression...more

Academic Staff

December 2011 Academic Staff Assembly meeting - Voted and passed updated “Distinguished Prefix Guidelines”...more

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Comings and Goings

Birthdays

 

	GOES-15 Imagery AWIPS Test Prior to the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-15 becoming operational on 06 December 2011, NOAA conducted an end-to-end test...more
	GOES-15 Becomes Operational At 15:45 UTC on 06 December 2011, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-15 replaced GOES-11 as the operational GOES-West satellite...more
Arctic Report Card 2011 is Available The NOAA Arctic Report Card for 2011 is now available. Jeff Key and Yinghui Liu (CIMSS) contributed to the "Temperature and Clouds" section...more
	State Of the Center Address - 2011 On 15 December 2011, Hank Revercomb gave his annual State of the Center Address to a capacity crowd at the Educational Science Building. Graduate School Dean Martin Cadwallader provided...more
	Highly Successful SSEC Holiday Party! Keeping with SSEC Holiday Tradition, the Center Party started immediately after Hank Revercomb's "State of the Center" address...more
	Awards Season at SSEC/CIMSS UW-Madison CIMSS received the Space Shuttle Program Commendation from the Space Shuttle Program Manager...more
Mobile Weather Alerts Highlighted on AMS Blog Mobile weather alerts was a topic featured on the American Meteorological Society (AMS) blog site. The article referenced...more