The ICDS, a new SSEC project, provides expert drilling and coring for all projects funded through the National Science Foundation that require such services. After the article's appearance, we wrote to the Wisconsin State Journal briefly describing all SSEC's Antarctic projects. The letter to the editor ran on Saturday, February 17. Speaking of Ice . SSEC is known for its ability to track clouds and water vapor to show wind motions and to automate them.
Results are encouraging, with numerous cloud targets identified and tracked.
Thanks to the ready availability of data in SSEC's Data Center and the team's knowledge of SSEC's McIDAS, they delivered the sample images by early afternoon. Besides the true-color image acquired at SSEC on February 19, Wetzel Seemann provided three different views utilizing infrared bands to more clearly delineate the smoke from cloud. The whole list is worth a bookmark for its satellite coverage of individual areas around the world. In Print Milwaukee Journal Sentinel science reporter John Fauber fairly rhapsodized about snow in his January 15 column. It seems he's missed it these past few years.