This paper describes our ongoing project under international research collaboration between Japan (National Institute of Informatics) and Thailand (Asian Institute of Technology) for the collection of typhoon image data and the establishment of typhoon information databases. Statistics on past typhoon records reveal that approximately one thirds of the typhoons formed in the Northwest Pacific b...

This paper traces the cooperative efforts of scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to improve the calibration of operational satellite sensors for remote sensing of the Earth's land, atmosphere and oceans. It gives a chronological perspective of the NOAA satellite program and the interactions betwee...

The Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS) is a data assimilation and distribution system developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric (NOAA) Office of Atmospheric Research Earth System Research Laboratory/Global Systems Division (ESRL/GSD) to perform the functions of data ingest, data integration, processing for QC, observation network monitoring, and data distribution for...

Information on land surface temperature (LST) is important for understanding climate change, modeling the hydrological and biogeochemical cycles, and is a prime candidate parameter for Numerical Weather Prediction assimilation models. In particular, the LST data derived from geostationary operational environmental satellite (GOES) provides unique opportunity for studying LST diurnal variation. ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Coral Reef Watch program is installing in situ monitoring stations at strategic coral reef areas for purposes of establishing long-term data sets, providing near real-time information products, and surface-truthing NOAA satellite sea surface temperature (SST) products used for coral bleaching predictions ("HotSpots"). The suite of sta...

1. INTRODUCTION Late this decade, the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Integrated Program Office (IPO) will initiate a new generation of passive electro-optical multispectral imagers and hyperspectral sounders to operate in three complementary orbit planes. NPOESS will replace the now-venerable civil Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite (...