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June
07, 2002
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an
online newsletter for and by NOAA employees
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More Accurate Weather Forecasts  A vital NESDIS team member, Anthony J. “Tony” Schreiner is an associate researcher at the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, a part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center. He has worked there since 1978 and, for almost all of that time, has been a major contributor to NOAA’s work through the development and generation of cloud products. Tony’s work has made the nation’s weather forecasts more accurate and dependable. In particular, he was recommended as this month’s Team Member of the Month for developing, on short notice, a clear-sky brightness temperature product during the summer and fall of 2001. Working with NESDIS – the National Environmental Satellite, Data & Information Service – Tony derived the new product, just as many others, from NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite. The clear sky brightness temperature data will be vital to global modelers in improving numerical weather prediction model forecasts. The data are now being tested by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Prediction and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. Tony’s talents have also been critical in applying the new product to NESDIS operations. Complementing his technical talents in better characterizing atmospheric conditions, Tony is being cited as Team Member of the Month for “exemplary dedication, thorough attention to details and goals, and professionalism with a hospitable demeanor.” |
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