Back to the Future: UW’s Space Science Center Innovative Video Applications in Meteorology
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Back to the Future:UW’s Space Science Center
Innovative Video Applications in Meteorology
Terry Kelly
Chairman and CEO
Weather Central, LLC
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Terry Kelly
• B.S. Meteorology, UW Madison 1971
• Department of Meteorology 1973-1975
• SSEC 1973-1977• TV Meteorologist 1974-1986
(AMS Seal of Approval)• Founded Weather Central in
1974• Founded ColorGraphics
Weather Systems in 1979• AMS Award for Outstanding
Service 1990
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Not Without U.W.!
• Academic appointment 1973
• University/Industry Research Grant: Develop Applied Program
• IVAM Project Meteorologist
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What’s an IVAM?
• “Innovative Video Applications in Meteorology”
• Funded by NOAA 1974-1977
• Verner Suomi, P.I.
• Terry Kelly, Project Meteorologist
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Ambitious Goals
• Make ground-breaking satellite imagery available to markets worldwide
• Develop a production system for television weather:– 30 FPS, NTSC standards, full color, automatic
updates
• National Distribution of “NowCasting”
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“NowCasting”
• Detailed, accurate weather for 0 to 12 hours
• Address specific needs of farmers, pilots, fishermen, agriculture, the public . . .
• Real time updates using McIDAS
• Severe weather alerting
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“McIDAS”
• Man-Computer Interactive Data Access system
• Dr. Richard T. Daly, J.T. Young and other pioneers
• First animated satellite images
• PDP-11 based
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Kelly’s Role – 1974-1977
• Conceive, develop, document prototype weather segments for the public and industry
• Include “futures” such as animation, color transitions, transparency, text crawls
• 1978: First McIDAS-generated weathercast: 6PM in Washington, DC
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1990 Weathercaster’s Presentation
• Video - A brief history of electronic weather presentation
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Weather Central / UW Partnership: Into the 21st Century
• Weather Central “SuperMicrocast” 10 KM overlapping World Grid
• Dr. Greg Tripoli and team: key modeling science
• Weather Central: key developments in severe weather prediction, worldwide applications
• Next: worldwide model downscaled through 1 KM land use/vegetation and topographic models
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Temperature at 20 kms
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Temperature at 1 km
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McIDAS Breakthroughs in 1976-1978
• “AA Command” – allowed “earth navigation” coordinates using visible reference points
• Mapping and Overlays – first “frame buffer”; also allowed text and overlays of “Service A” and “604” data
• “WINDCO” – measurement of cloud direction and speed using “looped” satellite images.
• Archiving and Retrieval on• “Sounder” Group – (Bill Smith, Paul Menzel, Hank
Revercomb)– Next Level remote sensing– “CAT SCANS” of atmosphere