Weekly Report for the Week of April 14, 2008
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CODE 613 LABORATORY FOR ATMOSPHERES
Discussions of the Results of Concluded Field Campaign
The current issue of Goddard View has an article authored by Philip Kurian (SSAI/613.1) concerning the recently concluded Water Vapor Validation Experiment – Satellite/Sondes entitled “WAVES 2008 Field Campaign Concludes at Beltsville Research Facility”. David Whiteman (613.1) lead the activity for NASA and Belay Demoz (formerly of 613.1, now with Howard University) was one of the Howard University leads for the project.
Abstracts Prepared for Conferences
Hlavka, D (613.1/SSAI)., L Tian (613.1/UMBC), W. Hart (613.1/SSAI), L. Li (613.1/UMBC), M. McGill (613.1), and G. Heymsfield (613.1), “Vertical Cloud Climatology During TC4 Derived from High-Altitude Aircraft Lidar+Radar,” accepted at the International Conference of Clouds and Precipitation, Cancun, Mexico, 7-11 July 2008.
Hlavka, D. (613.1/SSAI), M. Vaughan, M. McGill (613.1), and S. Rodier, “Coincident Comparisons of CALIPSO Extinction Profiles with CPL during CC-VEX,” accepted at the AGU Spring Joint Assembly, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, 27-30 May 2008.
Joanna Joiner (613.3), Alexander Vasilkov (613.3/SSAI), Jerry Ziemke (613.3/UMBC), Sushil Chandra (613.3/UMBC), Robert Spurr, P. K. Bhartia (613), Nick Krotkov (613.3/UMBC), Maarten Sneep, Paul Menzel, Steve Platnick (613.2), Graeme Stephens, Paul Wennberg, Melody Avery, Frank Wentz, Claudine Vanbauce, Peter Pilewski, Glenn Diskin, and Stephanie Vay. “A sample of what we have learned from A-train cloud measurements.” accepted at the AGU Spring Joint Assembly, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, 27-30 May 2008.
Joanna Joiner (613.3), Alexander Vasilkov (613.3/SSAI) , Robert Spurr, P. K. Bhartia (613), Nick Krotkov (613.3/UMBC), “Absorption in extended inhomogeneous clouds,” International Radiation Symposium, Foz do Iguacu, Brazil.
Mission Related Activities
The precipitation group of R. Adler (613.1/ESSIC), D. Bolvin (613.1/SSAI), and G. Huffman (613.1/SSAI) coordinated with the NOAA/CPC and TSDIS to recover from an outage in the NOAA/CPC IR data being used as input to the real-time TMPA (TMPA-RT) system for estimating global precipitation. The TMPA-RT is run routinely at TSDIS on a best-effort basis to complement the official TMPA research product being computed at TSDIS after real time. The group will compute alternative combined-microwave-only products to fill the three-day gap in merged microwave-IR products that the IR outage provoked.
Participation in Workshops
Eyal Amitai (613.1/GMU), Scott Braun(613.1), George Huffman(613.1/SSAI), William Olson (613.1/JCET), and David Wolff (613.1/SSAI) participated in the PMM/GPM GV National Network/Direct Validation "Mini-Meeting", 8 April 2008, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
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