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2022 Cooperative Research Programs (CoRP) Science Symposium
24 Aug 2022 - This year's CoRP Science Symposium was
held at CIRA, Fort Collins, Colorado, from 25-27 July 2022. The Symposium
had 68 participants from NOAA/NESDIS, NESDIS Cooperative Institutes (CI),
and CI-affiliated students, postdocs, and junior scientists. The Symposium
is part of a larger strategy to promote federal and academic partnerships/
collaborations.
More about the symposium -
Symposium website
GOES-T Launch Success
1 March 2022 -
NOAA’s GOES-T, the third in a series of four advanced geostationary
weather satellites, blasted into orbit aboard a United Launch
Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket at 4:38 p.m. EST on March 1 from
NASA Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
GOES-T will become operational as GOES West and track
destructive wildfires, lightning, Pacific Ocean-based storms,
dense fog, and other hazards that threaten the U.S. West Coast,
Hawaii and Alaska. It will also monitor solar activity and
space weather to provide early warnings of disruptions to
power grids, communications and navigation systems.
STAR teammates contributed to this launch's success and will
be involved in the post-launch testing, ongoing cal/val work and operational
implementation of the satellite and its data.
ABI Blended 'High Wind Event' Imagery Composite
STAR Shines at AMS 2022
18 February 2022 -
STAR sends a full complement of presenters to the AMS Conference
every year, and STAR’s tradition of participation continued
at the 2022 conference. AMS 2022: “Environmental Security:
weather, water and climate for a more secure world” ran
from 23-27 January as a 100% virtual conference
due to concerns about Omicron. AMS 2022 featured an
eye-popping 638 sessions, 2,454 talks, and 976 posters.
The STAR Science Seminar Series has published a set of
one-page summaries from STAR and CIMSS AMS contributors
including 43 talks and 8 posters. There were nearly 100
STAR contributors to these talks and posters, which is
30% of STAR’s entire staff roster! Topics included
restoring satellite instruments to full use after
anomalies, product improvements in precipitation,
rainfall, snow measurement, sea ice, and winds; AI
applications in data assimilation; detection of
blowing dust from imagery; new user training activities;
even the creation of a GOES image displaying the plumes
of gas & heat from rockets. The breadth of STAR AMS
contributions is impressive, and we thank all the contributors!
 STAR 2021 Annual Report
17 December 2021 -
STAR published their 2021 Annual Report this week.
This report highlights the variety of our work - hurricane predictions,
ocean temperatures, launching new satellites, restoring old satellites,
artificial intelligence, volcanoes, drought - STAR's work touches
every part of NOAA's remote sensing missions.
GOES-17 ABI Captures Hunga-Tonga Eruption
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18 January 2022 -
At 4:10 UTC on 15 January 2022, the Hunga-Tonga Volcano in the South Pacific erupted.
The eruption occurred about 40 miles north of Tonga's capital Nuku'alofa on Tongatapu,
the country's main island. Tonga consists of 170 islands scattered over about 700,000
sq km. The archipelago is located east of Australia and northeast of New Zealand.
About 100,000 people live in Tonga, the bulk of them on Tongatapu Island.
The underwater volcano Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption caused waves
over 3' to crash into Tonga. Local authorities have confirmed at least one
death and communications are crippled due to damage to fiber optic cables,
making it difficult to establish the scale of damage. A magnitude 4.0
earthquake accompanied the eruption.
The GOES-17 ABI captured images of the eruption, as seen in this video.
The initial dust cloud from the eruption spanned more than 400 miles wide.
Tsunami watches were issued to Pacific coastal areas by the National Weather
Service, with surf observed to be several feet above expected levels in
the Pacific Northwest.
Latest STAR Publications
Updated: Wed, 24 Aug 2022
- Title:
- Pronounced increases in nitrogen emissions and deposition due to the historic 2020 wildfires in the western US
- Authors:
- Campbell PC, Tong DN, Saylor R, Li YY, Ma SQ, Zhang XY, Kondragunta S and Li FJ
- Journal:
- Science of the Total Environment 839
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156130
- Date:
- Sep 2022
- Title:
- S-NPP VIIRS Lunar Calibrations over 10 Years in Reflective Solar Bands (RSB)
- Authors:
- Choi TY, Cao CY, Shao X and Wang WH
- Journal:
- Remote Sensing 14(14)
DOI: 10.3390/rs14143367
- Date:
- Jul 2022
- Title:
- JPSS VIIRS SST Reanalysis Version 3
- Authors:
- Jonasson O, Ignatov A, Pryamitsyn V, Petrenko B and Kihai Y
- Journal:
- Remote Sensing 14(14)
DOI: 10.3390/rs14143476
- Date:
- Jul 2022
- Title:
- A Retrospective Satellite Analysis of the June 2012 North American Derecho
- Authors:
- Pryor K and Demoz B
- Journal:
- Remote Sensing 14(14)
DOI: 10.3390/rs14143479
- Date:
- Jul 2022
- Title:
- Biological dipole mode indices: New parameters to characterize the physical and biological processes of the Indian Ocean Dipole event
- Authors:
- Shi W and Wang MH
- Journal:
- Progress in Oceanography 206
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2022.102847
- Date:
- Aug 2022
- Title:
- Geolocation Assessment and Optimization for OMPS Nadir Mapper: Methodology
- Authors:
- Wang LK, Pan CH, Yan BH, Beck T, Chen JY, Zhou LH, Kalluri S and Goldberg M
- Journal:
- Remote Sensing 14(13)
DOI: 10.3390/rs14133040
- Date:
- Jul 2022
- Title:
- New Reprocessing towards Life-Time Quality-Consistent Suomi NPP OMPS Nadir Sensor Data Records (SDR): Calibration Improvements and Impact Assessments on Long-Term Quality Stability of OMPS SDR Data Sets
- Authors:
- Yan BH, Pan CH, Beck T, Jin X, Wang LK, Liang D, Flynn L, Chen JY, Huang JF, et al.
- Journal:
- Remote Sensing 14(13)
DOI: 10.3390/rs14133125
- Date:
- Jul 2022
- Title:
- Verification and Validation of the COSMIC-2 Excess Phase and Bending Angle Algorithms for Data Quality Assurance at STAR
- Authors:
- Zhang B, Ho SP, Cao CY, Shao X, Dong J and Chen Y
- Journal:
- Remote Sensing 14(14)
DOI: 10.3390/rs14143288
- Date:
- Jul 2022
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