National Weather Service (NWS) Director Jack Kelly recently sent a letter to the aviation community indicating his commitment to improving NWS aviation products and services. As the letter states, "improvements such as making the areal coverage and timeliness of SIGMETS and AIRMETS more accurately reflect the phenomena of concern, implementing airport-specific amendment criteria for terminal forecasts, and expanding verification of aviation products are on our action list." Kelly has appointed John Jones, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Weather Services, as the central point of contact for all aviation issues both internally and externally (E-mail john.jones@noaa.gov).
In the new edition of NOAA News, read the details of the National Ice Center's detection of a gigantic iceberg and point to a recent press release on how NOAA scientists believe that the North American landmass is soaking up CO2. The URL is: http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov.
NOAA has scheduled a press briefing on the final 1999 budget from congress on November 9 at the Press Club in Washington, DC, at 10 a.m. For more details contact Bob Hansen via e-mail (robert.c.hansen@noaa.gov).
Find out about recent and scheduled satellite transmission of B-Roll for television weathercasters on weather and climate issues from the University Center for Atmospheric research at http://www.ucar.edu/climatestock/cell3.html.
Rusty Billingsley, the Scientific Operations Officer in Boise, has posted some easily-understood files on a web site that provide a tutorial in IPV. The lessons are contained in 5 files, IPV1 through IPV4a. Point to:
If you find these modules useful, try out Rusty's interactive radar training at:
Florida State University invites you to participate in the Fall semester satellite imagery interpretation course--offered GRATIS! The course concentrates on POES satellite imagery and begins November 2, 1998. For more details surf to:
Take a look at the San Francisco State jet stream analysis superimposed on a composite GOES-West and EAST infrared image. The latest North American image can be found at http://virga.sfsu.edu/gif/jetsat_00.gif.
The menu for all archived jet stream maps is:
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