Weekly Report for the Week of February 8, 2008
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GSFC Laboratory for Atmospheres, Code 613
A Symposium on Recent Developments in Atmospheric Applications of Radar and Lidar was held 20 – 24 January in New Orleans as part of the 88th AMS annual meeting. Laboratory scientists presented papers on recent IIP and IRAD radar developments at Goddard and papers on observations of key hurricane intensification process:
Heymsfield, G. (613.1): NASA High-Altitude Cloud and Precipitation Radars for Process Studies and Satellite Validation
Guimond, S., G. Heymsfield (613.1), Poster presentation: Vertical Hot towers observed by NASA's ER-2 Doppler Radar (EDOP).
Other laboratory scientists making presentations were Eric Smith (613.1), Nexrad-In-Space (NIS): Anticipated advances in hurricane monitoring & track-intensity predictions; Bruce Gentry (613.1), The TWiLiTE airborne direct detection Doppler lidar for tropospheric wind profiling; and Warren Wiscombe (613.2), ARM's cloud research using combined radar, lidar, and passive microwave measurements.
The 3rd International TRMM Science Conference was held 4-8 February in Las Vegas. This major meeting, celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the TRMM satellite, reviewed the science progress and accomplishments enabled by TRMM, a joint NASA-JAXA (Japanese Exploration Agency) mission, built and managed at Goddard. Among the Laboratory scientists presenting papers at this meeting were Bill Lau (613), Bob Adler (613.1/Emeritus), Ted Jackson (613.1/SSAI), Eyal Amitai (613.1/GMU), Scott Braun (613.1), J. J. Wang (613.1/GEST), George Huffman (613.1/SSAI), Yang Hong (613.1/GEST), Guojun Gu (613.1/GEST), Eric Smith (613.1), W. –K. Tao (613.1), Mircea Grecu (613.1/GEST), Tom Bell (613.1), and Gerry Heymsfield (613.1). Bob Adler, George Huffman, and Gerry Heymsfield also chaired sessions at this conference.
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