Director's Note

John Roberts

You have been receiving emails from various University departments as well as some of your SSEC co-workers regarding the extensive reworking of the University Human Resources System. This is VERY important information so please...more

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Department News

Library

The Schwerdtfeger Library recently held workshops on compiling a literature review in the atmospheric sciences.  The PowerPoint slides for the workshops are available...more

Academic Staff

The Academic Staff Institute will be held this year on Thursday, March 22, 2012 from 8:30am to 2:30pm at Union South...more

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Comings and Goings

Birthdays

 

	Suomi NPP Instrument Packages Already Hard at Work NASA’s newest Earth-observing satellite, the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP), is a critical first step in building the next generation of satellite systems. Its many instruments are already...more
	Increasing Lead Times for Hazardous Weather Warnings UW-Madison researchers Ralph Petersen, Jason Otkin, and Jun Li of CIMSS, along with Tim Schmitt and Brad Pierce of the Advanced Satellite Products Branch (ASPB) participated in the Regional Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSE) workshop...more
	GOES-R Highlighted as Part of a NASA Outreach Effort Tim Schmit (NOAA/NESDIS) has written an article entitled “Watching From Above – WAY Above,” featured in NASA’s Mission Chronicles...more
CIMSS Software for Interrogating Stray Light Correction Data Introduced and Tested On 09 February 2012, CIMSS released the latest version of UNIX and Man-computer Interactive Data Access System (McIDAS) software...more
	Polar Products Software Released as Part of Aqua and Terra Direct Broadcast Software Package The University of Wisconsin-Madison cryosphere team, submitted software that will create 1km products in polar regions from direct downlinked MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) input data...more