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photo: VIIRS True Color Image of Great Lakes from J2 - 12 April 2023

STAR Teams Push JSTAR Products to Provisional Status

VIIRS True Color Image of Great Lakes from J2 - 12 April 2023

20 April 2023 - As a consequence of the JSTAR SDR and VIIRS EDR Cal/Val teams' efforts, a number of important J2 datasets reached provisional maturity level and are now available to users. This declaration coincides with the NOAA-21 Handover Review March 29/30. The JSTAR teams worked extremely hard to achieve this milestone and were recognized for their efforts by the handover review team.

 

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 Ocean Color Publication Among
Top-Cited Papers

photo: Menghua Wang

20 April 2023 - STAR Scientist Dr. Menghua Wang has been notified that his article "Global Estimation of Suspended Particulate Matter From Satellite Ocean Color Imagery" is among the top cited and downloaded papers for the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans and is a top downloaded article by Wiley Publishing in 2021. Congratulations, Menghua!



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.


Latest STAR Publications

Updated: Mon, 4 Dec 2023

Title:
Using the Commercial GNSS RO Spire Data in the Neutral Atmosphere for Climate and Weather Prediction Studies
Authors:
Ho SP, Zhou XJ, Shao X, Chen Y, Jing X and Miller W
Journal:
REMOTE SENSING 15(19)
DOI: 10.3390/rs15194836
Date:
Oct 2023
Title:
The Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM) Community-Focused Collaborative Model Development Accelerating Research to Operations
Authors:
Johnson BT, Dang C, Stegmann P, Liu QH, Moradi I and Auligne T
Journal:
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 104(10):E1817-E1830.
DOI: 10.1175/bams-d-22-0015.1
Date:
Oct 2023
Title:
On the use of consistent bias corrections to enhance the impact of Aeolus Level-2B Rayleigh winds on National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration global forecast skill
Authors:
Liu H, Garrett K, Ide K and Hoffman RN
Journal:
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
DOI: 10.1002/qj.4600
Date:
Nov 2023
Title:
Assessing potential of the Geostationary Littoral Imaging and Monitoring Radiometer (GLIMR) for water quality monitoring across the coastal United States
Authors:
Schaeffer BA, Whitman P, Vandermeulen R, Hu CM, Mannino A, Salisbury J, Efremova B, Conmy R, Coffer M, et al.
Journal:
MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 196
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115558
Date:
Nov 2023

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