Weekly Report for the Week of March 24, 2008
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GSFC Laboratory for Atmospheres, Code 613
Education and Outreach
Bob Adler/613.1 visited Fort Lewis College in Durango on the 17th and 20th of March and gave a talk on "Global Precipitation Variations: Global Scale to Floods" to the Weather and Climate course in the Geosciences program. He also visited with Professor Scott White and representatives of the Mountain Studies Institute, which has offices in Durango at Fort Lewis College and in Silverton, CO. Discussions were held on possible collaborative efforts which would involve both research and education/outreach.
Conferences
Climate & Radiation Branch member Charles Ichoku (613.2/UMD-ESSIC) was one of the participants at the 2008 Global Dialogues on Emerging Science and Technology (GDEST) conference held March 17-19 in Cape Town, South Africa. He presented a paper entitled “Satellite Characterization of Biomass Burning and Smoke Emissions in Africa”.
The GDEST conference series was conceived and initiated by the Office of the Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State in liaison with the National Academies to promote mutually beneficial scientific exchanges between American researchers and their foreign counterparts on new or emerging research themes. A number of GDEST conferences have been held over the past few years, each one focusing on a single area of research, and the venue located in a relevant foreign country. The theme of this year’s conference was: “Geospatial Sciences for Sustainable Development in Africa”. About 100 participants, representative of geospatial-science related researchers and practitioners from the US and about 15 African countries, were in attendance notable among whom was Dr. Nina Fedoroff, the Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State. There were about 41 oral and 19 poster presentations, as well as a number of collaborative dialogues, discussions, and displays on issues of relevance to geospatial activities in Africa, including remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS) research and applications.
Image of the Week
"Retrieving Thick Cloud Optical Depth from Space-borne Lidar Observations"
(submitted by Alexander Marshak and Yuekui Yang/UMD-GEST)
URL: http://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/viewImage.php?id=228
Publications
"Desert Dust Air Mass Mapping in the Western Sahara, Using Particle Properties Derived from Space-based Multi-angle Imaging", 2008 by R. Kahn (613.2); A. Petzold (IAP/DLR); M. Wendisch (IAP, Johannes Gutenberg Univ); E. Bierwirth (IAP, Johannes Gutenberg Univ); T. Dinter (IEP, Univ. of Bremen); M. Fiebig (Norwegian Institute for Air Research); P. Knippertz (IAP, Johannes Gutenberg Univ); D. Muller (Norwegian Institute for Air Reserach); A. Schladitz (Leibniz Inst. for Tropospheric Research); W.von Hoyningen-Huene (Univ. of Bremen), Tellus SAMUM Special Issue [submitted].
Travel
Alexander Marshak(613.2) is attending the ICESat Science Team Meeting, Boulder, CO, March 24-26, 2008.
Warren Wiscombe(613.2) is attending the DOE Climate Strategic Planning Workshop, Alexandria Virginia, March 25-27, 2008.
Thomas Bell(613.2) gave a seminar in the Climate and Radiation Branch series on Wednesday 3/26/2008, entitled "New Results on the "Weekend Effect" for Precipitation over Eastern U.S. and Evidence for Storm Intensification by Pollution".
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