STAR Goes to the 90th AMS Meeting
Paul Chang Honored with Special Award
 29 January 2010 - STAR was
well-represented at the the 90th American Meteorological Meeting in
Atlanta, GA, 17-21 January 2010. STAR personnel gave more than a dozen
presentations and posters, presenting the work of more than 25 different
scientists and contractors. A particular highlight was the Special Award
given to Paul Chang as a member of a group recognized for
"an exceptional, interdisciplinary project, resulting in
continuous operational monitoring of hurricane surface winds, improved
hurricane intensity advisories, and saving countless
lives."
AMS Meeting Note from Tim Schmit
Comparison of 15-minute interval GOES-12 and
1-minute Interval GOES-14 Visible Images21 January 2010 - As part of his presentation to
the 6th Annual Symposium on Future National Operational Environmental
Satellite Systems-NPOESS and GOES-R (program),
on the improved attributes of the Advanced
Baseline Imager (ABI) on GOES-R, T. Schmit showed several loops that
demonstrated the improved temporal resolution of the ABI over that
of the current imager.
As an example, he presented a comparison of 15-minute interval GOES-12
and 1-minute interval GOES-14 visible images centered off the east coast
of the Delmarva Peninsula from December 19, 2009. This comparison
offers a compelling demonstration of the value of more frequent
imaging for monitoring the development and evolution of cloud features.
During this 18:15 - 19:04 UTC time period, there were only 3 images
available from GOES-12, compared to 44 images using GOES-14.
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