Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch

2023 AMS SatMOC

NOAA Environmental Satellite Enterprise: Applications and Opportunities

These are links for the 2023 AMS Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology (SatMOC) Virtual Short Course.

• Consists of three 2-hour training sessions that are seen below.
• Training Sessions are scheduled from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM on 22 June, 27 June, and 29 June 2023.
• Short Course materials and links will be added as the course date approaches.
• All times are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Note, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is 4-hours ahead of EDT.
• Short Course Announcement: Session Descriptions and Instructor Bios

Agenda

22 June 2023 – Training Session 1: Monitoring global lakes and reservoirs using multi-satellite observations (Huilin Gao & Deep Shah, Texas A&M University)

• Presentation
• Hands-On Exercises
  • Break Out Room – 1: Exercises
  • Break Out Room – 2: Exercises
  • Break Out Room – 3: Exercises
  • Break Out Room – 4: Exercises
• Reference Papers
  • Water Resources Research: Global monitoring of large reservoir storage from satellite remote sensing
  • Remote Sensing: Nasa’s MODIS/VIIRS global water reservoir product suite from moderate resolution remote sensing data
  • Nature Communications: Evaporative water loss of 1.42 million global lakes
  • Nature Communications: Diminishing storage returns of reservoir construction
  • Remote Sensing of Environment: Estimating lake temperature profile and evaporation losses by leveraging MODIS LST data

27 June 2023 – Training Session 2: Monitoring and Predicting the Opening of the Northwest Passage (Jeff Key & Yinghui Liu, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR)

• Agenda (PDF)
• Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere and JPSS Snow and Ice products – Presentation
• Northwest Passage Hands-On Activity
• Breakout Session Questions and Figures
• Reading List (PDF)

29 June 2023 – Training Session 3: Unique Career Pathways Working with Satellites and their Observations across Various Disciplines (Joseph Patton, University of Maryland – College Park / CISESS, and Sherrie Morris, STC @ NOAA/NESDIS/GOES-R Program)

• Career Pathways – Presentation
• W. McGreary – Presentation
• GOES-R Beginner’s Guides: English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French
• Links to Satellite Products and Training Sites
• Online Access to Satellite Products: English and Spanish