Monthly Archives: October 2016

Local Chapter News

The North Florida Chapter of the AMS and NWA will be participating in Operation Community Resilience in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew. This article explains. Members of the Chapter are pictured accepting the NWA 2016 Local Chapter of the Year Award from President David Freeman. The award was presented at the NWA 41st Annual Meeting…
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Launch Delay of GOES-R Satellite

NOAA continues to work with its partners -- NASA, United Launch Alliance (ULA) and the U.S. Air Force’s 45th Space Wing -- to assess the infrastructure and facilities necessary for GOES-R launch following Hurricane Matthew. Additional assessments are underway to fully understand the impact the storm had on local facilities. Before Hurricane Matthew, the launch…
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Wildfire Detection Notifications for Impact-Based Decision Support Services in Oklahoma Using Geostationary Super Rapid Scan Satellite Imagery

Lindley, T. T., A. R. Anderson, V. N. Mahale, T. S. Curl, W. E. Line, S. S. Lindstrom, and A. S. Bachmeier, 2016: Wildfire
detection notifications for impact-based decision support services in Oklahoma using geostationary super rapid scan
satellite imagery. J. Operational Meteor., 4 (14), 182191, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.15191/nwajom.2016.0414.

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