Weekly Report for the Week of June 2, 2008
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CODE 613 LABORATORY FOR ATMOSPHERES
Conferences, Seminars, Working Groups
Judd Welton (613.1): "Comparisons of Aerosol Properties Derived from GEOS-5 and the CALIPSO Level 2 Feature Mask". (Spring AGU Meeting)
William Olson (613.1/JCET/UMBC), Mircea Grecu (613.1/GEST/UMBC), Chung-Lin Shie (613.1/GEST/UMBC), Tristan L'Ecuyer, Duane Waliser, Xianan Jiang, Jui-Lin Li, Baijun Tian, Adrian Tompkins, and Wei-Kuo Tao (613.1): “Applications of Remotely-Sensed Latent Heating Distributions Derived From a Satellite Microwave Radiometer Algorithm.” (Spring AGU Meeting)
Ralph Kahn (613.2) attending the Langley Atmospheric Composition Review Panel Meeting, Hampton, VA, June 2-5, 2008.
Si-Chee Tsay (613.2) and N. Christina Hsu (613.2) presenting papers at the First International Conference: From Deserts to Monsoons, Crete, Greece, May 30-June 7, 2008.
Alexander Marshak (613.2) visiting the Remote Sensing of Atmosphere Working Group at the Dept. of Atmospheric Physics at Tartu Observatory and presenting a paper at the 13th International Conference, Mathematical Modelling and Analysis (MMA2008), Tartu, Estonia, June 4-7, 2008.
Warren Wiscombe (613.2) attending the 4th PAN-GCSS (Gewex Cloud Study System) Meeting on Advances in Modeling and Observing Clouds and Convection", Toulouse, 2-6 June 2008. Sponsored by NASA, U.S. Department of Energy¹s ARM Program, NOAA, ESA, NSF, The World Climate Research Program and Meteo France.
Climate & Radiation Branch Seminar Series Susan Moran, USDA ARS Southwest Watershed Research Center, " Fusion of Radar and Thermal Remote Sensing for Surface Soil Moisture Mapping " June 4, 2008, 3:30.
Image of the Week
"A Hazy Satellite Snapshot"
Submitted by William Ridgway, SSAI
URL: http://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/viewImage.php?id=234
Education and Outreach
Students from all over the world will gather to participate in the Odyssey of the Mind's 29th World Finals, a creative problem-solving competition, at the University of Maryland, College Park, Md., May 31 through June 3. These students have advanced from competitions held earlier in the year at the local, regional, state or country levels and will now compete for the Odyssey's top awards. Outreach participation from Climate & Radiation Branch members include Steven Platnick (613.2) and Rob Simmon (613.2/SSAI).
On May 25, 2008, Robert Cahalan (613.2) spoke to a group of 30 journalists from major print media, at the "University of Maryland Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, on the topic "Climate Change: What Science Tells Us." The journalists also visited GSFC, and heard David Adamec (614.2) speak on "Oceanography and Climate" and Waleed Abdalati (614.1) speak on "Polar Ice and Sea Level."
On June 4, 2008, Robert Cahalan (613.2) spoke on the topic "Earth¹s Changing Climate What¹s been happening in recent decades? What might we do about it?" to the IEEE Washington/Northern Virginia Chapter of the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (W/NV GRSS). The talk was given at the Goddard Visitor's Center.
Publications
Remer, L. A. (613.2); Kleidman, R. G. (613.2/SSAI); Levy, R. C. (613.2/SSAI); Kaufman, Y. J. (613.2/Deceased); Tanre, D.; Mattoo, S.; Martins, J. V.; Ichoku, C. (613.2/UMCP); Koren, I. (613.2/UMBC); Yu, H. (613.2/UMBC); Holben, B. N., Global aerosol climatology from the MODIS satellite sensors, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos (The Yoram J. Kaufman Symposium on Aerosols, Clouds and Climate), 2008 (In press).
Jianxin Wang (613.1/SSAI) and David B. Wolff (613.1/SSAI), Comparisons of Reflectivities from TRMM Precipitation Radar and Ground Radars, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology (Submitted).
Proposals Submitted or Reviewed
Judd Welton (613.1) was asked by HQ program managers to review a proposal for funding of a congressional earmark in NASA's budget.
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