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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.

 


Finding the Magic in Marine Science

A group of 2023 Knauss fellows with the director of U.S. Fish and Wildlife (Martha Williams) and the director of the National Park Service, Charles F. “Chuck” Sams III.

18 September 2023 - One of my fondest memories as a child was visiting the Eastern Shore of Maryland and spending time on the Assateague Island National Seashore and swimming at Ocean City. These memories played an important role in developing my love for coastal and marine science.

Did you know that a quarter of all U.S. National Parks are on or near the coast? Many coastal parks and communities are dealing with issues such as sea-level rise, saltwater intrusion, and warming temperatures. Therefore there are many parks, such as Assateague, that deal with the forefront effects of climate change on a daily basis.

This is where I believe STAR can be a strong resource in finding solutions to issues that other agencies like National Park Service (NPS) have to manage, through programs like NOAA Coastwatch... Read more on Nicole Hammond's blog.




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: Fri, 22 Sep 2023

Title:
Tropical cyclone heat potential [in “State of the Climate in 2022”]
Authors:
Bringas F, Goni GJ, Lin I-I and Knaff JA
Journal:
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 104(9):S256-S259.
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0090.1
Date:
Sep 2023
Title:
Towards the Mitigation of Discrepancies in Sea Surface Parameters Estimated from Low- and High-Resolution Satellite Altimetry
Authors:
Buchhaupt CK, Egido A, Vandemark D, Smith WHF, Fenoglio L and Leuliette E
Journal:
Remote Sensing 15(17)
DOI: 10.3390/rs15174206
Date:
Sep 2023
Title:
TOTAL COLUMN WATER VAPOR [in “State of the Climate in 2022”]
Authors:
Mears CA, Nicolas JP, Bock O, Ho SP and Zhou X
Journal:
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 104(9):S54-S55.
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0090.1
Date:
Sep 2023
Title:
TROPOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE [in “State of the Climate in 2022”]
Authors:
Po-Chedley S, Christy JR, Zou C-Z, Mears CA and Haimberger L
Journal:
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 104(9):S36-S38.
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0090.1
Date:
Sep 2023
Title:
Sea-level variability and change [in “State of the Climate in 2022”]
Authors:
Thompson PR, Widlansky MJ, Leuliette E, Chambers DP, Sweet W, Hamlington BD, Jevrejeva S, Merrifield MA, Mitchum GT, et al.
Journal:
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 104(9):S173-S176.
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0076.2
Date:
Sep 2023
Title:
Characterization of ocean color retrievals and ocean diurnal variations using the Geostationary Ocean Color Imager (GOCI)
Authors:
Wang MH, Shi W and Jiang LD
Journal:
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 122
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2023.103404
Date:
Aug 2023
Title:
STRATOSPHERIC OZONE [in “State of the Climate in 2022”]
Authors:
Weber M, Steinbrecht W, Arosio C, van der A R, Frith SM, Anderson J, Ciasto LM, Coldewey-Egbers M, Davis S, et al.
Journal:
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 104(9):S94-S96.
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0090.1
Date:
Sep 2023

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