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photo: NOAA-21 First Light ImagesNOAA-21 First Light Images
The STAR VIIRS SDR team has produced first light imagery from the VIIRS visible bands. The image shows true color imagery from December 5. The VIIRS visible/near infrared bands were the second instrument to be activated, with the VIIRS thermal bands, CRIS, and OMPS to follow in February.

16 March 2023 - The STAR JPSS SDR teams have released first light imagery for four of its advanced instruments - VIIRS, CRIS, ATMS, and OMPS, aboard NOAA-21. NOAA-21, which is the third satellite in the JPSS series, was launched on November 21, 2022. It will provide continuity for weather forecasters and the broader environmental monitoring community.

The release of this imagery marked a significant milestone for NOAA-21 and for the scientific community as a whole. The data collected by these instruments will be used to advance our understanding of the Earth's environment and inform policy decisions on issues such as climate change and natural resource management. With this groundbreaking technology at their fingertips, scientists and researchers around the world are poised to make new discoveries and advance our understanding of the world around us.

 


STAR Leads at OSOS-3

3rd International Operational Satellite Oceanography Symposium

10 November 2022 - The Call for Abstracts and Registration for the Third International Operational Satellite Oceanography Symposium (OSOS-3) are now open! OSOS-3 will be held June 12-16, 2023, Busan South Korea. NOAA/NESDIS/STAR and EUMETSAT are excited to welcome Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Agency (KHOA) as co-host of this third meeting in the series (prior meetings in 2019 and 2021). Derek Manzello and Heather Roman-Stork will represent NOAA as meeting co-chairs. This meeting is an endorsed United Nations Ocean Decade event.


Meet Spotlighted Space Professionals!

Meet Spotlighted Space Professionals!

4 October 2022 - Too often students – and even educators – associate having a space career with just being an astronaut or rocket scientist. But we know there is a whole universe of jobs related to space that encompass fields such as science, engineering, technical trades, communications and media relations, and more.

The White House's National Space Council wants to change that and called upon Federal agencies to help educators expose their students to the multitude of space careers across the federal government and the wide diversity of professionals in those roles.

At NOAA, our mission is to understand and predict our changing environment from the depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun, as well as manage and conserve America’s coastal and marine resources. To do this, we collect, archive, and study information not just from the ground and in the air, but from satellites in space. Information collected from NOAA’s environmental satellites supports products and services used across the country every day that promote and protect our security, economy, environment, and quality of life.

Space missions, satellite programs, and scientific research require a large team of people with a variety of skills. We spoke with a few people here at NOAA, featuring STAR's very own Alexis Wolfe (Chief of Staff) and Paige Lavin (Oceanographer), about their space-related careers and the advice they’d give to young people reaching for the stars.



Latest STAR Publications

Updated: Mon, 27 Mar 2023

Title:
Forecasting Prorocentrum minimum blooms in the Chesapeake Bay using empirical habitat models
Authors:
Horemans DML, Friedrichs MAM, St-Laurent P, Hood RR and Brown CW
Journal:
Frontiers in Marine Science 10
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1127649
Date:
Mar 2023
Title:
Investigation Into the Potential Value of Stratospheric Balloon Winds Assimilated in NOAA's Finite-Volume Cubed-Sphere Global Forecast System (FV3GFS)
Authors:
Lukens KE, Ide K and Garrett K
Journal:
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 128(3):e2022JD037526.
DOI: 10.1029/2022JD037526
Date:
Feb 2023
Title:
Enterprise version 8 total column ozone algorithm (EV8TOz) development and applications on multiple sensors
Authors:
Niu J, Flynn LE, Beck CT, Zhang Z, Beach E, Zhang Z and Bali M
Journal:
Remote Sensing Letters 14(3):231-242.
DOI: 10.1080/2150704X.2023.2185111
Date:
Mar 2023
Title:
Increased dominance of heat-tolerant symbionts creates resilient coral reefs in near-term ocean warming
Authors:
Palacio-Castro AM, Smith TB, Brandtneris V, Snyder GA, van Hooidonk R, Mate JL, Manzello D, Glynn PW, Fong P, et al.
Journal:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120(8):e2202388120.
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2202388120
Date:
Feb 2023
Title:
Forecasting Maximum Mechanism Temperature in Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) Data Using a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Neural Network
Authors:
Porter WD, Yan B and Sun N
Journal:
Atmosphere 14(3):503.
DOI: 10.3390/atmos14030503
Date:
Mar 2023
Title:
Mid-Tropospheric Layer Temperature Record Derived From Satellite Microwave Sounder Observations With Backward Merging Approach
Authors:
Zou C-Z, Xu H, Hao X and Liu Q
Journal:
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 128(6):e2022JD037472.
DOI: 10.1029/2022JD037472
Date:
Mar 2023

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