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A Workshop on the Next- Generation Environmental Satellite Constellations
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2020
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Source: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 101(6), E763-E770
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Journal Title:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
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Description:Scientists and forecasters demand high-quality spatial- and temporal-resolution data with global coverage to study and monitor different meteorological and climatic phenomena around the world. For some countries, those observational data are inadequate and/or absent, since several difficulties prevent their access (economic, logistic, technological, etc.). One attempt to mitigate these challenges comes from the meteorological satellites with continuous measurements since the end of the 1950s. They provide important information regarding Earth’s atmosphere, cryosphere, land, oceans, and space weather that impact the Earth’s climate and weather. The new Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite series (GOES-R) and Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) represent significant advancements in satellite observation capabilities. However, as the advanced technology employed in GOES-R and JPSS has led to vast improvements in imaging, more training and effort is needed to take advantage of the new benefits offered by these satellite advances. Moreover, the GOES-R and JPSS satellites will be operational well into the 2030s, and it is important to keep the different users around the world up to date. In this sense, a collaborative effort led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), with the collaboration of the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), resulted in the first NOAA–NASA Satellite Summer Workshop. The workshop invited 24 international (Argentina, Barbados, Brazil, Colombia, France, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, Spain, and the United States) graduate students and early-career scientists (selected from an applicant pool of 65) engaged in the science of developing and using satellite data. The present meeting summary features the highlights and motivation for this workshop held in July 2019 at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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Source:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 101(6), E763-E770
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