Weekly Report for the Week of June 16, 2008
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GSFC Laboratory for Atmospheres, Code 613
Awards
Dave Whiteman (613.1) was selected for a 2008 Robert H. Goddard Award for Science.
Proposals
David Whiteman (613.1) submitted a proposal entitled “Mobile Raman Water Lidar For the Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change” to the steering committee of the WMO-endorsed Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change. The proposal is an application for the Code 613.1 ALVICE lidar system to be admitted to NDACC as a complementary instrument and serve in the role of mobile reference Raman water vapor lidar within the network. Dr. Demetrius Venable of Howard University is a co-I on the proposal.
Education and Outreach
On June 4, Matthew McGill (613.1) gave a “stunningly excellent” presentation to the visiting AMS Fellowship Winners about cloud/aerosol lidar work at Goddard.
News Releases
Ali Tokay (613.1/UMBC) has a web story at NASA web site (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hurricanes/archives/2008/raindrop_size.html). The web story was written by Ms. Gretchen Cook-Anderson, NASA outreach department.
Items of Interest
Robert Cahalan (613.2) attending "NASA Day on the Hill" at the Rayburn House Office Building, June 18, 2008.
Travel
Ralph Kahn (613.2) meeting with MISR team members, Pasadena, CA, June 20-24, 2008.
Si-Chee Tsay (613.2) attending the Data workshop of Interagency collaborations for AMY (Asian Monsoon Year 2008) Aerosol-Cloud Observations at the Lulin Atmospheric Background Station (LABS), as well as 7 South East Asian Studies (7-SEAS) for aerosol-cloud interactions and aerosol long-range transport, Taipei, Taiwan and Beijing, China, June 10-July 7, 2008.
Eric Wilcox (613.2) performing CARB portion of ARCTAS Experiment, Wallops Island, VA and Ames Research Center, CA, June 18-July 12.
http://www.espo.nasa.gov/arctas/viewDocument?url=docs/carb_science.pdf
Publications
Solar Zenith and Viewing Geometry Dependent Errors in Satellite Retrieved Cloud Optical Thickness; Marine Stratocumulus Case, Kato, S.; Marshak, A., J.Geophys. Res., 2008 [Submitted]
Impacts of 3-D Radiative Effects on Satellite Cloud Detection and Their Consequences on Cloud Fraction and Aerosol Optical Depth Retrievals, Yang, Y.; Di Girolamo, L., J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 113, D04213, doi:10.1029/2007JD009095, 2008 [Published]
Retrievals of Cloud Optical Depth from the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) by Calibration of Solar Background Signal, Yang, Y.; Marshak, A.; Chiu, J. C.; Wiscombe, W. J.; Palm, S. P.; Davis, A. B.; Spangenberg, D. A.; Nguyen, L.; Spinhirne, J. D.; Pl Minnis, J. Atmos. Sci., doi: 10.1175/2008JAS2744.1, 2008 [In press]
An estimate of the impact of absorbing aerosol over cloud on the MODIS retrievals of cloud optical thickness and effective radius using two independent retrievals of liquid water path, Wilcox, E. M.; Harshvardhan; Platnick, S., J. Geophys. Res., 2008 [Submitted]
An estimate of the impact of absorbing aerosol over cloud on the MODIS retrievals of cloud optical thickness and effective radius using two independent retrievals of liquid water path, Wilcox, E. M.; Harshvardhan; Platnick, S., J. Geophys. Res., 2008 [Submitted]
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