Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch Weekly Reports

Weekly Reports

Snow/Cloud-Layers Product Updates - March 6, 2026
Imagery Production Team Content of Blizzard Featured by Media and NOAA - February 27, 2026
Improvements to the National Hurricane Center (NHC) Gridded Tropical Cyclone forecast advisory Message (GTCM) surface wind model - February 20, 2026
MTG LI Imagery on CIRA’s SLIDER - February 13, 2026
Awards - February 6, 2026
CSU/CIRA Participation in the 106th AMS Annual Meeting - January 30, 2026
Products and Applications - January 23, 2026
CIRA’s upcoming participation in the 106th AMS Annual Meeting - January 16, 2026
JPSS Teletraining this Week - January 9, 2026

CIRA presentation at the NOAA Emerging Technology (ET) 2025 Season Wrap-up Meeting - December 19, 2025
Josh Reiter Presents at LEO Science Seminar - December 12, 2025
New Quick Guides - December 5, 2025
Taiga Tsukada receives the 2025 Yamamoto Award from the MSJ. - November 21, 2025
New SLIDER Servers Launch with Massive Archive and Meteosat-12 Imagery - November 14, 2025
Imagery Production Team Content of Hurricane Melissa’s Mesovortices Featured by News Publications - November 7, 2025
Media Interactions and Request - October 31, 2025
CSU ATS/CIRA Colloquium Presentation - October 17, 2025
Beta Testing SLIDER 2.0 – Now with Meteosat-12: - October 10, 2025
Publications - October 3, 2025
Novel Observations Collected in Hurricane Gabrielle - September 26, 2025
Meetings - September 19, 2025
CIRA Learning Journeys at UIFCW25 - September 12, 2025
Retirement of Bernie Connell - September 5, 2025
Workshop on Machine Learning for Earth System Modelling - August 29, 2025
Imagery Production Team Satellite Imagery of Hurricane Milton Used in New York Times and National Hurricane Center - August 8, 2025
Imagery Production Team Satellite Imagery of ‘Megaflash’ Used in News Media - August 1, 2025
CIRA staff provided tropical weather briefings for the NOAA Hurricane Research Division (HRD) field program - July 25, 2025
CIRA GeoColor Featured in CNN Article - July 18, 2025
Publications - July 11, 2025
Media Interactions - July 4, 2025
LEO Science Seminar on Tropical Cyclone Analysis and Forecasting - June 27, 2025
2025 Research Initiative Award: - June 20, 2025
Interview with WLOS News on AI for hurricane forecasting - June 13, 2025
Imagery Production Team Imagery of Wildfires Smoke and Dust Featured in News Publications - June 6, 2025
CIRA participation in the IWW17 - May 23, 2025
Imagery Production Team Imagery of North American Fires Featured - May 16, 2025
NWS Juneau Spring Training - May 2, 2025
2025 Taiwan-US Workshop on AI/ML for Satellite Data, Severe Weather, and Tropical Cyclones at CIRA - April 25, 2025
CIRA Participation in AMS SATMOC Committee: - April 18, 2025
CIRA participation in the 2025 WMO RGB Workshop - April 11, 2025
“Identifying data sources and physical strategies used by neural networks to predict TC rapid intensification” - April 4, 2025
Citation - March 28, 2025
New Satellite Liaison Blog Posts - March 21, 2025
New Satellite Liaison Blog Post - March 7, 2025
NHC Preliminary Verification Report brings media praise to NHC forecast improvements and references work enabled by the CIRA/NHC partnership - February 28, 2025
NOAA/NASA 3D Winds Workshop - February 21, 2025
NESDIS News Article - February 14, 2025
Visit to NWS/NCEP Weather Prediction Center (WPC) International Desk to Provide Satellite Education and Applications Training on NOAA and CIRA Moisture Products - February 7, 2025
GREMLIN at SBC - January 31, 2025
CIRA participation at the 105th AMS Annual Meeting - January 17, 2025
Imagery Production Team Imagery of the Wildfires Across Los Angeles in Media - January 10, 2025

Publications (Citation: followed by a short Summary: (Why & so what), & detailed summary): - December 20, 2024
New Satellite Liaison Blog Post - December 13, 2024
LEO All Hands and NESDIS Awards recognition - December 6, 2024
Josh Reiter Presents at OR&R’s Monthly Lecture - November 25, 2024
Bill Line Works NWS Forecast Shifts - November 15, 2024
New Satellite Liaison Blog Post - November 8, 2024
Python Package to Access TC PRIMED - November 1, 2024
GREMLIN in SLIDER - October 25, 2024
CIRA Seminar - October 18, 2024
Imagery Production Team Imagery of Hurricane Milton Featured in Media - October 11, 2024
Imagery Production Team Imagery of Hurricane Helene Featured in Media - October 4, 2024
Training and Education activities - September 27, 2024
Virtual Participation at the National Weather Association Annual Meeting - September 20, 2024
Former Lapenta Intern Interviewed by the BBC - September 13, 2024
GOES-19 Imagery Generation - September 6, 2024
Meteorological Technology International - August 30, 2024
Imagery Production Team Imagery of Iceberg A23a Featured by NPR and Washington Post - August 23, 2024
OCTANE Direction Sandwich now on SLIDER - August 16, 2024
Satellite Book Club (SBC) Seminar - August 9, 2024
New Satellite Liaison Blog Post - August 2, 2024
CIRA Imagery Featured in Jasper Fire Coverage - July 26, 2024
Bill Line Works NWS Forecast Shifts - July 19, 2024
IGARSS 2024 presentation - July 12, 2024
GOES-U Launch Party at CIRA - June 28, 2024
American Meteorological Society (AMS) 51st Conference on Broadcast Meteorology - June 22, 2024
CIRA Executive Board Meeting - June 14, 2024
Virtual Alaska Weather Seminar - June 7, 2024
GK2A Extended Local Area now on SLIDER - May 31, 2024
Participation in HWT Satellite Experiment - May 24, 2024
New Products on SLIDER - May 17, 2024
CIRA Imagery Featured in NOAA Social Media Posts - May 10, 2024
Tropical Cyclone Training for the Central Pacific Hurricane Center (CPHC) - May 3, 2024
Earth from Orbit Celebrates Earth Day - April 26, 2024
EGU presentation on Evaluation Needs of AI-based global weather prediction models - April 19, 2024
New Satellite Liaison Blog Post - April 12, 2024
New Satellite Liaison Blog Post - April 5, 2024
Bill Line Receives NOAA David Johnson Award - March 28, 2024
TC PRIMED highlighted in NESDIS Impacts Briefings for Artificial Intelligence - March 15, 2024
2024 Richard H. Hagemeyer Award - March 8, 2024
New Satellite Liaison Blog Post - March 1, 2024
Book chapter - February 23, 2024
CIRA visit to NWS Cheyenne, WY - February 15, 2024
Atmospheric River Slams West Coast - February 2, 2024
New Satellite Liaison Blog Post - January 26, 2024
Weather Imagery Featured in NOAA Social Media Posts - January 19, 2024

Updates to the Hurricane Intensity and Structure Algorithm (HISA) delivered to NESDIS/STAR ASSISTT - December 22, 2023
Weather Imagery Featured on NOAA Social Media Pages - December 16, 2023
Pacific Northwest Atmospheric River - December 11, 2023
New Satellite Liaison Blog Post - December 1, 2023
New Satellite Liaison Blog Post: - November 10, 2023
Storm Ciarán - November 8, 2023
Hurricane Otis - October 27, 2023
Congratulations to Austin Boone - October 20, 2023
New Satellite Liaison Blog Post - October 13, 2023
New York City Flash Flooding - October 9, 2023
Interview with WIRED Magazine on AI Numerical Weather Prediction models - September 29, 2023
Hurricane Lee - September 20, 2023
Sheldon Kusselson Receives National Weather Association Special Lifetime Achievement Award - September 15, 2023
New Satellite Liaison Blog Post - September 8, 2023
Hurricane Hilary - August 25, 2023
Maui Wildfires - August 18, 2023
New Satellite Liaison Blog Post: - August 11, 2023
CIRA Researcher Sheldon Kusselson Wins National Weather Association Special Lifetime Achievement Award - August 5, 2023
CIRA Researchers Discuss AI for Weather Forecasting - July 28, 2023
West Coast Atmospheric Rivers in the News - July 21, 2023
New JPSS Blog - July 14, 2023
Publications (Citation: followed by a short Summary - July 7, 2023
New Satellite Liaison Blog Post - June 30, 2023
TC PRIMED Learning Journey Jupyter Notebooks Submitted to NCAI for Review - June 23, 2023
CIRA Scientist Quoted in Fact-Check Article: - June 16, 2023
Canada Wildfire and Smoke Imagery in the News - June 9, 2023
New on SLIDER: the JPSS CONUS Sector: - June 2, 2023
TCFP Science Walkthrough - May 26, 2023
CSU Walter Scott, Jr., College of Engineering (WSCOE) Faculty and Staff Awards - May 6, 2023
Barotropic instability during Hurricane Maria (2017) - April 28, 2023
Optical Flow Products in AWIPS - April 21, 2023
Satellite Liaison Blog Posts: Bill Line (CoRP/RAMMB) published the following blog posts: - April 14, 2023
Multiple Rounds of Severe and Tornadic Storms Hit Central United States - April 7, 2023
Newsweek interview - March 31, 2023
Another Atmospheric River Slams California - March 24, 2023
Cyclone Freddy Makes Final, Devastating Landfall in Mozambique - March 17, 2023
Terrain-corrected ABI Fire Imagery on RealEarth - March 10, 2023
Cyclone Freddy’s Journey and Impact in Africa - March 3, 2023
New JPSS Quick Guide! - February 24, 2023
Citation: - February 17, 2023
CIRA Support for National Hurricane Center Operations - February 10, 2023
Seminars & Meetings - February 3, 2023
Publications (Citation: followed by a short Summary) - January 27, 2023
West Coast Atmospheric Rivers in the News - January 20, 2023

Publications (Citation: followed by a short Summary) - December 16, 2022
NOAA-21 VIIRS First Light Imagery - December 9, 2022
New Satellite Liaison Blog Post - December 2, 2022
New Satellite Liaison Blog Post - November 11, 2022
Publications - November 4, 2022
CIRA hosts WMO/EUMETSAT/NOAA RGB Developers and Users Workshop - October 28, 2022
Citation and Summary - October 21, 2022
New Satellite Liaison Blog Post - October 14, 2022
CIRA’s 2022 Research Initiative Awards - October 10, 2022
Media Coverage of Hurricane Ian - September 30, 2022
New Satellite Liaison Blog Post - September 16, 2022
New Satellite Liaison Blog Post - September 12, 2022
New Satellite Liaison Blog Post - August 26, 2022
New Satellite Liaison Blog Post - August 19, 2022
CIRA/CSU Participation at the American Meteorological Society Collective Madison Meeting - August 12, 2022
New Satellite Liaison Blog Post - August 5, 2022
New Satellite Liaison Blog Post - July 29, 2022
Director Steven Miller authored an article detailing co-located satellite and in-situ observations of milky seas off the coast of Java. - July 15, 2022
New Satellite Liaison Blog Post - July 8, 2022
CIRA’s Satellite-based Cloud Layers & 3D Cloud Data Development - July 1, 2022
CIRA Commons opening - June 24, 2022
JPSS Twitter Posts - June 10, 2022
New Satellite Liaison Blog Post - June 3, 2022
Publications (Citation: followed by a short Summary: (Why & so what), & detailed summary): - May 27, 2022
JPSS Imagery Twitter Posts: - May 20, 2022
NOAA GSL Strongly-Coupled Data Assimilation Meeting - April 22, 2022
New Satellite Liaison Blog Post - April 8, 2022
Second AMS Award - March 25, 2022
Imagery of Southern Storms - March 25, 2022
Joint Hurricane Testbed (JHT) project accepted for implementation into National Hurricane Center (NHC) operations - March 18, 2022
The Day/Night Band Helps Flag False Clouds at Night - March 4, 2022
Critical Design Review for MTCSWA - February 25, 2022
C3LOUD-Ex field campaign - February 18, 2022
Satellite Book Club Seminar - February 11, 2022
Media and Outreach - February 4, 2022
Tonga Eruption in the News - January 21, 2022
JPSS Twitter Posts - January 14, 2022
New Satellite Liaison Blog Post - January 7, 2022

Improved Cloud Cover Layers with Machine Learning - December 17, 2021
NOAA’s End of the Season Hurricane Coverage, Continued - December 10, 2021
NOAA’s End of the Season Hurricane Coverage - December 3, 2021
First Major Winter Storm of the Season hits Northern U.S. - November 19, 2021
International symposium on data assimilation: - November 12, 2021
SNPP VIIRS Day Night Band (DNB) in GOES-16 projection on SLIDER - October 22, 2021
Morning coffee stops sewage mishap - October 15, 2021
Landsat-9 Launch Seen from GOES-West - October 1, 2021
Two new Satellite Liaison Blog Posts - September 24, 2021
NESDIS Reimagined Highlight - September 20, 2021
Soliton Waves - September 10, 2021
Interview with New York Times - September 7, 2021
GOES-16 ABI African Dust - August 27, 2021
New Satellite Liaison Blog Post - August 20, 2021
Wildfires out west - August 13, 2021
NSF’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) mentoring - August 6, 2021
VIIRS DNB observations of milky seas published in Scientific Reports - July 30, 2021
SLIDER Examples on 9News - July 16, 2021
New AWIPS Geocolor Testing - July 9, 2021
Fire Weather - July 2, 2021
Input provided for the 2021 NOAA Science Report: - June 29, 2021
Moon’s Shadow Passes over Parts of North American and Arctic - June 18, 2021
Overzoom and New Drawing Features in SLIDER - June 12, 2021
VIIRS Fire Temperature RGB at 375 m resolution - June 4, 2021
Paper on tropical cyclone rapid intensification forecasting published - May 28, 2021
Student poster award at AMS meeting - May 25, 2021
2021 AMS 34th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology - May 14, 2021
Paper on ensemble forecasting of tropical cyclones published - May 7, 2021
Three New SLIDER Features - April 30, 2021
Washington Post, 22 April 2021: - April 23, 2021
EUMETSAT collaboration - April 16, 2021
SLIDER Lat/Lon Query Feature Launched - April 9, 2021
Nighttime ProxyVisible Imagery in the National Hurricane Center (NHC) AWIPS2 - April 2, 2021
New Satellite Liaison Blog Post - March 26, 2021
Hurricane Dorian data: - March 19, 2021
Manuscript Published: - March 12, 2021
Experimental MIT LL synthetic water vapor GOES-17 imagery available in SLIDER - March 5, 2021
Imagery for NOAA ESRL/PSL team - February 26, 2021
Diversity Training: - February 22, 2021
February 12 21 - February 12, 2021
NOAA Weather Prediction Center (WPC) International Desk Uses CIRA Advected Layer Precipitable Water (ALPW) Product to Warn of Flooding in Chile: - February 9, 2021
Markov-like wind radii CLIPER model up and running - February 1, 2021
New Satellite Liaison Blog Post: - January 22, 2021
GeoColor used in PBS Miniseries: - January 15, 2021
Michael Benson summarized some of the top weather events - January 8, 2021

NOAA-20 VIIRS Captures Total Solar Eclipse: - December 29, 2020
New Satellite Liaison Blog Post: - December 11, 2020
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New Satellite Liaison Blog Post: - October 22, 2020
Disaster Supplemental – 3D Hurricane Winds: - October 12, 2020
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Rapid intensification article - September 7, 2020
Critical Design Review for Tropical Cyclone Formation Probability product - September 1, 2020
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A Gizmodo article on a peculiar convective cloud feature in Australia - January 17, 2020
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