Back to the Future: UW

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Back to the FutureUWs Space Science
CenterInnovative 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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Whats 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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Kellys 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 Weathercasters 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