Career in Weather...- Graduated from college with a degree in Meteorology in 1975 Experience - Meteorologist for 36 years 32 years working in the Satellite Service of NOAA - Operational

Mr. Sheldon Kusselson

NOAA’s Satellite, Data and Information Service

Career in Weather

Career Day – May 13, 2011 Stonegate Elementary School Silver Spring, MDftp://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/Presentations/Other/Stonegate_Elementary_School_2011.ppt

I am Mr. Kusselson, Satellite MeteorologistNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

- Graduated from high school and started college (Pennsylvania) in 1971

- Graduated from college with a degree in Meteorology in 1975

Experience - Meteorologist for 36 years

32 years working in the Satellite Service of NOAA- Operational satellite analyst (shift work, all times day/night)

- Use all types of satellite data

- Specialty: Precipitation - Heavy Precipitation/Flash Floods

- Specialty: Polar-orbiting Microwave and Geostationary imagery

- Develop new satellite products for forecasters

- Primarily to support National Weather Service (NWS) forecastersExit 7 Capital Beltway

Branch Av North Camp

Springs, MD

Job/Mission: To Help NOAA save lives and property

...working for a weather forecasting company 1976-1979

Education

Weather forecasters - government / private

Forecasting - precipitation, tropical, severe weather, winds

Forecasting for TV/radio, utilities, big companies,

commodities, newspapers, boaters and more and more

Climatologists - long term forecasts; interactions with environment;

global warming, el nino / la nina, North Atlantic Oscillation

Weather researchers - satellite applications,

computer models, tropical weather, severe weather, radar

Careers in Meteorology

Professional Government

Meteorologist at Work

Communicating the Weather to the Public

as a Broadcast Meteorologist

http://weather.boston.com/

SATELLITE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES..DATE/TIME 03/29/10 0323Z

SATELLITE ANALYSIS BRANCH/NESDIS---NPPU---TEL.301-763-8678

LATEST DATA USED: GOES-12: 0315Z KUSSELSON

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LOCATION...MASSACHUSETTS...RHODE ISLAND...VERMONT...CONNECTICUT...

LOCATION...NEW YORK...NEW JERSEY...PENNSYLVANIA...DELAWARE...

ATTN WFOS...BOX...OKX...ALY...PHI...BGM...CTP... ATTN RFCS...NERFC...MARFC...

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EVENT...HEAVY RAIN

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SATELLITE ANALYSIS AND TRENDS...LATEST WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS UPPER LOW OVER THE BORDER

OF OHIO AND PENNSYLVANIA WITH A SECOND SHORTWAVE NEAR CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI THAT WILL PLAY A

ROLE IN THE DEVELOPING COASTAL SFC LOW CURRENTLY LOCATED NEAR THE ALABAMA/GEORGIA BORDER.

LATEST IINFRARED SATELLITE DATA SHOWS COOLING AND EXPANDING CLOUD TOPS COOLING TO -63C JUST

NORTHEAST OF NEW YORK CITY. BLENDED TOTAL PRECIPITABLE WATER DATA SHOWS A 1.0-1.1" PW PLUME

OVER THE CAROLINAS MOVING NORTHEAST UP THE COAST AND PROVIDING THE MOISTURE NECESSARY FOR

HEAVY RAINFALL. EXPERIMENTAL MESOSCALE WIND ALGORITHM INDICATES STRONG UPPER LEVEL

DIVERGENCE IN THE AREA OF RAPIDLY COOLING CLOUD TOPS WHICH WILL ALSO ENHANCE THE HEAVY

PRECIPITATION. SURFACE OBSERVATIONS HAVE SHOWN RAIN RATES OF .15-.2"/HR OVER E PA AND WITH THE

COOLING CLOUD TOPS RAINFALL RATES CAN BE EXPECTED TO TREND UPWARDS OVER THE DISCUSSION

AREA IN THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. INFRARED SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS ADDITIONAL ENHANCEMENT

UPSTREAM, SO HEAVY RAINFALL SHOULD BE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO FEED NORTHEAST FOR THE NEXT

SEVERAL HOURS. FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE IS MUCH LOWER OVER N NJ AND EXTREME E PA INTO NYC SO THE

FLOOD THREAT IS GREATER IN THIS AREA..

PLEASE SEE WEB ADDRESS LISTED BELOW SHORTLY FOR A GRAPHIC OUTLINING THESE FEATURES. .

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And You have to know how to write!

Draw, Analyse and Communicate

Educational Courses

Mathematics

Physics / Chemistry

Geography, Communications, Business, English,

Engineering / hydrology, remote sensing, statistics

Meteorology

College activities - Campus Weather Service http://cws.met.psu.edu/

Other helpful coursesThe Penn State University Weather Station

And for the future, the social sciences like Sociology, Psychology

Learn How the Weather Works

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<<<<<<<lower precip water values higher precip water values>>>>>>>>>>.25 .50 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 inches

afternoon of Sep 9, 2009GOES water vaporBlended TPWGOES visible

Looking At Satellite Channels to do My Job

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/isabel_2003.html close-up of Isabel

Weather Items on the Web

http://www.elnino.noaa.gov/ tracking el nino

http://www.goes.noaa.gov/ satellite data

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/geo/ worldwide geostationary imagery

http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/ramsdis/online/goes-west_goes-east.asp real-time satellite data

http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod/analysis/ computer model data

http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/nexsat_pages/nexsat_home.html satellite data

http://www.esl.lsu.edu/quicklinks/best_of_esl/hurr_anim/ hurricane loops

http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/satellite/ basic satellite and other data

http://www.weatherwizkids.com/ weather education

http://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/ satellite data

http://www.dbaron.org/sat around the world satellite data

http://www.atmos.albany.edu/index.php?d=wx_sat satellite and more

http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/tropics-bin/tropics.cgi NPOESS page

http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/bTPW total water vapor

http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/imagery/index.html GOES imagery

http://www.sat24.com/ any country satellite data

Thunderstorms seen from the ground

Thunderstorms seen from the Space shuttle

Observing and Analysing Thunderstorms

Using Satellite Images Once a Minute

Observing the eye of

Hurricane Isabel from Space

To do my job as a satellite meteorologist...

March 11

1995

Results

Morning

Mar 10, 1995

GOES Water

Vapor

Morning

Mar 10 1995 CAPolar

Water Vapor

I look at satellite data

you don’t see on TV

Microwave Imagery

I look at additional satellite imagery

to do my job

Geostationary Infrared Imagery

I help develop new satellite imagery

for forecasters

12 25 38 50 62 mm

Satellite Moisture Loop - May 3 to 7, 2007

http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/bTPW

Okay to just do weather/meteorology as a hobby

Thermometer, hygrometer

rain guage, barometer,

anemometer,

digital weather stations, and

your Eyes

Keeping daily weather records of:

Temperature - high and low; humidy, rainfall and snowfall; cloud

cover, barometric pressure, wind speed/direction;

beginning/ending of rain/snow; severe weather.

Using

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/isabel_2003.html close-up of Isabel

Weather Items on the Web

http://www.elnino.noaa.gov/ tracking el nino

http://www.goes.noaa.gov/ satellite data

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/geo/ worldwide geostationary imagery

http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/ramsdis/online/goes-west_goes-east.asp real-time satellite data

http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod/analysis/ computer model data

http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/nexsat_pages/nexsat_home.html satellite data

http://www.esl.lsu.edu/quicklinks/best_of_esl/hurr_anim/ hurricane loops

http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/satellite/ basic satellite and other data

http://www.weatherwizkids.com/ weather education

http://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/ satellite data

http://www.dbaron.org/sat around the world satellite data

http://www.atmos.albany.edu/index.php?d=wx_sat satellite and more

http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/tropics-bin/tropics.cgi NPOESS page

http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/bTPW total water vapor

http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/imagery/index.html GOES imagery

http://www.sat24.com/ any country satellite data

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/110427_g13_visA_ms_al_anim.gif

Great Tornado Outbreak of April 27, 2011

as Seen with Satellite Imagery and Weather Data

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/110427_g13_ir_awips_anim.gif

Great Tornado Outbreak of April 27, 2011

as Seen with Satellite Imagery and Weather Data