NOAA Report

David ClarkNOAA/NESDIS/NGDCCEOS/WGISS 16Chaing Mai, ThailandSept 18, 2003

Japanese Emperor & Empress Visit IUGG

Emperor Akihito (gray suit) and Empress Michiko (under hat) visited the IUGG Exhibit Hall just before opening the assembly on July 2. Professor Masaru Kono, IUGG President, is in the foreground next to the IUGG flag.

•July 2003 in Sapporo, Japan

•5,000 Participants from 100 countries

•Special session on CEOS activities

August 15, 2003 Blackout in NE USAAugust 15, 2003 Blackout in NE USADMSP OLS Nighttime Lights ComparisonDMSP OLS Nighttime Lights Comparison

Red - Blackout AreasRed - Blackout Areas Black – No Significant LightsBlack – No Significant Lights

Light Blue - Lights OnLight Blue - Lights On Blue - Shoreline & BordersBlue - Shoreline & Borders

Image depicts differences Image depicts differences between August 13/14 & between August 13/14 & August 15 nighttime lights August 15 nighttime lights compositescomposites..

The images can be interpreted using the following key:Cyan = background - no lights and offshore (land / sea mask applied).Black = bright lights detected in both time periods (at or near saturation).Red = Lights much brighter in 2000.Yellow = New lights in 2000.Light gray = Dim lighting detected in both time periods - little change in brightness.Blue = Lights dimmer or missing in 2000 (relative to 1992-93).

Global Nightlights Change Product

Ozone Monitoring with TOASTTOAST (Total Ozone Analysis from SBUV/2 and TOVS) maps show low ozone amounts over Antarctica in June, indicating existence of an isolated polar vortex. TOAST’s ability to observe polar regions during polar night is significant. It allows us to monitor ozone changes before the onset of the chemical ozone depletion that causes the Antarctic ozone hole later in the year.

INDO-U.S. Data Exchange• Indian Meteorological

Department (IMD) relayed on 64 kbs line first sample set of INSAT-3A (93 degrees East) data to NESDIS for examination– Data quality is good– Navigation performance

currently being evaluated– NOAA acquiring new 512

kbs line enabling faster transmissions of INSAT-3A VIS and IR data and GOES data

First INSAT-3A Image

Sea Ice Index

http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/

Web image spreadsheet tool displays archived images quickly and easily in a tabular format.

Left: Comparison of ice extent and concentration for same months in 2003 and 2002; the line on the extent image shows the median extent for that month.

SXI Operational as of April 26, 2003

• 400,000 images generated to date.

• Research and operational users are downloading 2 GB/day on average.

• Top SXI users are NASA, NOAA, US Air Force, Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University of California at Berkeley, Rice University, International Space University (France), Astronomical Institute of the Wrocław University (Poland), University of Wisconsin, Harvard University, US Army, US Navy, Chevy Chase Bank, and The Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS Japan).

SXI movie improvements: saturated pixels have been been replaced with good pixels taken from images made with shorter exposures, thus eliminating the expanding “diamond” effect previously seen during solar flares.

Hilo

Christmas

Rorotonga

Atouna

Papette

Rapa

PenrhynFunifuti

Pago Pago

Honiara

Vanuatu

Nouma

Port Moresby

Tarawa

MajuroTruk

Guam

Koror

Pacific Island GCOS (PI-GCOS)

PI-GCOS Current Actions

• Establish PI-GCOS Program Officer Position at SPREP in Apia• Imminent; Hope to have on-board by end of 2003• MOU Between NOAA and SPREP in Progress• Activities (e.g., Pacific Data Portal Design)• Initial Period of Performance October 2003 through September 2006 [3 Years]• Initial Funding of $70K provided to SPREP• First Action Involves Design of Pacific Data Portal at University of Delaware

• Establish a PI-GCOS Steering Committee• Concept Approved by Global GCOS Steering Committee April 2003• Evolution from PI Regional GCOS Implementation Team (PIRGIT)• Develop a Terms of Reference (First Draft by September 2003)• Membership and Chairing• Activities• Relationship to SPREP and PI-GCOS Program Officer• Operation• Other Activities• First Meeting Proposed for February 2004 in Fiji (Organization, Donors, etc.)

SPREP

GCOSSteering

Committee

WMO / IOC / UNEP / ICSU UNFCCC

GTOS

GOOS

WMOSubRegional

Office

GCOSSecretariat

PI-GCOSSteering

Committee

PI-GCOS Conceptual Framework

StakeholdersGCOS

NationalCoordinators

PI-GCOS Officer

PI-GCOS Near-term Activities

• Selection of GUAN and GSN Site Support Dependent on Inputs from AOPC, GCOS Secretariat, and Donors

• These Site Selections are Outside the Scope of the PI-GCOS Regional Program and are Dependent Upon the Global Requirements for the GCOS Networks

• GUAN Sites in PI-Region to be Updated w/FY03 Funds• San Cristobal-Galapagos Island, Ecuador• Penrhyn Island, Cook Islands• Other GUAN Site Support for FY03 [Africa – 4; Indian Ocean – 1]

• GUAN Sites in PI-Region for FY04 Funding• Honiara, Solomon Islands• Christmas Island, Kiribati• Rarotonga, Cook Islands

• GSN Sites in PI-Region for FY04 Funding• Use of AWS an Issue Being Explored (Maintenance and Continuity Issues)• Complementary Technology