Status Report on the Antarctic

Meteorological Research Center

May 2004 to May 2005May 2004 to May 2005

Matthew A. Lazzara, Shelley L. Knuth, Charles R. Stearns,

Linda M. Keller and Jessica A. Staude

Antarctic Meteorological Research Center

Space Science and Engineering Center

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Outline• Composite Improvements

• Annual Review

• Activities w/NOAA, NCDC & WMO

• Antarctic-IDD (Another talk…)

• X-band System for Antarctica

• Future Activities

Composite ImprovementsUsing more satellites:NOAA & DMSP (from Palmer)Terra & Aqua (Not from McMurdo)Meteosat-8 (aka MSG-1)

Tried out FY2-C & KalpanaProblems with Nav. and Cal.

Composite Improvements

Annual Review: Data HoldingsGenerated Data and Products

Satellite Imagery and Data

Model Analyses and Forecasts

Observational Data (GTS/ NOAAPORT)

Text Data(GTS etc.)

USAP Station Data

Antarctic Composites•IR•WV•VIS experimental•Psuedo-Color

NOAA•HRPT (McMurdo only)•GAC (Project FROST/by request)•LAC (Iceberg)

NCEP•GFS•WWFM

METAR METAR (McMurdo area & South Pole)

South Pole

Met Office (UK)

PIREP/AIREP TAF (McMurdo Area)

Palmer

UW & SPAWAR

AWS Data

ECMWF

(Europe)

Synoptic

(US and ABoM)

AIREP

(New Zealand Region)

McMurdo

GMS/GOES Satellite wind charts

(Courtesy of CIMSS)

MODIS Winds

Coming soon

DMSP•OLS•SSM/I

(Real time only)

AMPS

(Real time only)

Radiosonde USAP Ship SITREPS

Including NCDC Data holdings up to 1998

CRAS

(Real time only)

Ship & Buoy

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Data Requests

DomesticDomestic• Paul Dalrymple, Antarctican Society

• Kelly Admunsen, BPRC/OSU

• David Yu, AMANDA/UW-Madison

• Scott Polk, VIMS

• Mark Seefeldt, CU

• Amanda Adams, AOS/UW-Madison

• Rebecca Wolf, US Naval Academy

• Kathleen Allen

• Ryan Fogt, BRPC/OSU

• Gonzolo Hernandez, U. Washington

• SPAWAR

• RPSC

• Doug MacAyeal, U. Chicago

• Bob Bundschuh

InternationalInternational• Stefano Di Battista, Italy

• Pascale Bilodeau, Canada

• Satyendra Bhandari, India

• Narelle Baker, New Zealand

• N.C. Sheeba, Malaysia

• Clare Oatley, Australia

• Irene Lopez Garrido, Spain

• Elizabeth Parer-Cook, Australia

There are more….

Educational Outreach

• SSEC Public Tours, UW-Madison – Hundreds of visitors

• ~1100 E-mails– Two way exchanges – Answering questions – Provided data or information– Students and general public

• Grandparents University, UW-Madison, Madison, WI

• CASPER homeless grade school project, UW-Madison, Madison, WI

• Wisconsin State Fair, West Allis, WI

• CIMSS/Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium Workshop on Earth, Atmospheric & Space Sciences, Madison, WI

Madison Area Technical College, Madison, WI

Deerfield Middle School, Deerfield, WI

Lodi Area Middle School, Lodi, WI

Deerfield Elementary, Deerfield, WI

Holland’s Hearts & Hands Preschool Deerfield, WI

Item 1: CLIMAT Messages• Monthly climate summary sent over GTS for WMO• CLIMAT – Surface observations

– Request for McMurdo, South Pole, Palmer – Possible future funding support from NCDC for back generation of South

Pole • Beta version of WMO software (requires a full climatology!)• AMRC & RPSC joint project

– Critical issue with average computation (max/min vs. hourly)– Request for Wisconsin AWS (~19 of them)

• CLIMAT TEMP – Upper Air observations– Request for McMurdo, South Pole– Can be done now with newly installed radiosonde systems

Item 2: NOAA TG• NOAA Telecommunications Gateway (TG)

– To GTS (Worldwide)– To NOAAPORT (Domestic/civilian)

• Request to put non-WMO assigned UW AWS on GTS– Likely to be coded as SYNOP MOBIL format– Likely done on a 3 hourly basis

• Applied for NOAA TG FTP account– Not yet assigned

• NOAA TG account will have dual use:– AWS SYNOP MOBIL– AWS CLIMAT

McMurdo’s X-band System:Direct Broadcast MODIS Polar Winds

With thanks to:Jeff Key1Office of Research and Applications, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison

McMurdo DB MODIS Products: Winds & Cloud MaskCurrently only two products are generated: polar winds and the cloud mask. Examples are given below. Future products will include cloud particle phase, cloud top pressure, cloud optical depth, surface temperature (ice and sea), and surface albedo.

MODIS Polar Winds Real-Time Processing Time -

Direct Broadcast MODIS Data at McMurdo

Processing times are for the middle image in a 3-orbit triplet. Actually processing time from image acquisition to availability of wind vectors is 100 minutes (1.67 hrs) less than shown. MODIS images are available (image acquisition to level 1b) in 20-30 minutes. Winds processing takes an addition 10-15 minutes.

http://stratus.ssec.wisc.edu/products/db/mcmurdo

Future Activities

• Continue AMRC traditional activities• Antarctic composite improvements

– Include FY2-C and Kalpana as cal./nav. are improved– Test out AWC code to have improved visible composites

• Continue climatological work– McMurdo (related to Matt’s PhD)– Special work with South Pole (NCDC)

• Case studies– Special fog collection (related to Shelley’s MS & Matt’s PhD)– Others

• Continued Cloud Mass Transport (CMT) studies– Jessica to start back up again this summer/fall

• Antarctic-IDD– More on this in another talk…

• More…(Aussie AWS decoded real time, etc…)

Comparing South Pole Observations

• Joint South Pole Meteorology Office and AMRC effort – checkout of new instrumentation system

• Compare one year overlap of datasets:– Old South Pole instruments– New South Pole instruments– Clean Air AWS– CMDL/Clean Air observations (if available)

• Publish results!• Thanks to Kathie Hill and Linda Keller on this

effort• More next year…

E-mail Lists: Please Join Today!• ANTIDD – Antarctic-IDD mailing list• ANTDISCUSSION – Antarctic meteorology discussion group

• ANTAWS - Information and updates on AWS data• ANTOBS - Information and updates on all other observational datasets• ANTOPS - Notices on AMRC’s real-time data availability, distribution

and status• ANTICEBERG - Notices on latest Iceberg monitoring images posted to

the web site• ANTCOMMUNITY - Infrequent notices to the Antarctic community on

events and significant developments

E-mail: amrc@ssec.wisc.edu to join!

Questions and AnswersThank you to NSF/OPP

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