Weekly Report for the Week of June 30, 2008
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GSFC Laboratory for Atmospheres, Code 613
Conferences/Workshops
Matthew McGill (613.1) attended the International Laser Radar Conference (ILRC) and presented a poster entitled "UAV-based lidar sensor for next-generation suborbital platforms."
David Whiteman (613.1) attended the International Laser Radar Conference (ILRC) in Boulder, CO and presented two papers : “Water Vapor Validation Experiment – Satellite/Sondes” and “Airborne and Ground-based measurements of water vapor, aerosols and clouds from a high performance Raman lidar”. He also was co-author on 8 other presentations at the conference.
George J. Huffman (613.1/SSAI) participated in the 2008 GOES-R Algorithm Working Group Annual Meeting, 23-26 June 2008, Madison, WI.
Several members of 613.1 (David Starr, Gerry Heymsfield, Matt McGill, Arthur Hou) attended the ACE Science Working Group Meeting held at Goddard on 19-20 June. David Starr (613.1) made presentation to ACE SWG workshop here at Goddard last week. Aerosol, Chemistry, Ecology (ACE) is in the Decadal Survey Tier 2 missions with a scheduled launch of 2016-2020 The Goddard-led ACE SWG has recently been reconstituted by NASA HQ to take forward the work that was done last year in developing the mission concept. Starr made the science case for inclusion of wide-swath radiometers (SIRICE and GMI) as a key component of the ACE mission. SIRICE is a Goddard concept. The presentation was well received and there was strong support for these measurements.
Items of Interest
The June 2008 issue of NASA Tech Briefs has an article by Matthew McGill (613.1) and Stan Scott (694) describing the airborne Cloud Physics Lidar. The technology was submitted in an invention disclosure in 2005.
Publications
Crow, W.T., G.J. Huffman, R. Bindlish, T.J. Jackson, 2008: Improving Satellite-based Rainfall Estimates over Land Using Spaceborne Surface Soil Moisture Retrievals. J. Hydrometeor. (accepted).
Zeng, X., W.-K. Tao, M. Zhang, A. Y. Hou, S. Xie, S. Lang, X. Li, D. Starr, X. Li, and J. Simpson, 2008: The indirect effect of ice nuclei on atmospheric radiation. J. Atmos. Sci. (accepted).
Zeng, X., W.-K. Tao, S. Lang, A. Hou, M. Zhang, and J. Simpson, 2008: On the sensitivity of Atmospheric ensemble to cloud microphysics in long-term cloud-resolving model simulations. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, Special Issue on high-resolution cloud models, (in press).
Zeng, X., W.-K. Tao, and J. Simpson, 2008: A choice of prognostic variables for long-term cloud-resolving modeling. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan (accepted).
Li, X., W.-K. Tao, A. Khain, J. Simpson and D. Johnson, 2008: Sensitivity of a cloud-resolving model to bulk and explicit-bin microphysics schemes: Part I: Comparisons. J. Atmos. Sci., (accepted - in press).
Li, X., W.-K. Tao, A. Khain, J. Simpson and D. Johnson, 2008: Sensitivity of a cloud-resolving model to bulk and explicit-bin microphysics schemes:: Part II: Cloud microphysics and storm dynamics interactions. J. Atmos. Sci., (accepted - in press).
Norris, P. M., L. Oreopooulos, A. Hou, W.-K. Tao, and X. Zeng, 2008: Clouds andcopulas: Part I: Theory for water clouds, Q. J. Roy. Meteorl. Soc., (accepted).
Tao, W.-K., J. Chern, R. Atlas, D. Randall, X. Lin, M. Khairoutdinov, J._L. Li, D. E. Waliser, A. Hou, C. Peters-Lidard, W. Lau, and J. Simpson, 2008: Multi-scale modeling system: Development, applications and critical issues, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. (accepted).
Tao, W.-K., D. Anderson, R. Atlas, J. Chern, A. Hou, S. Lang, W. Lau, C. Peters-Lidard, R. Kakar, S. Kumar, X. Li, T. Matsui, M. Rienecker, B.-W. Shen, J. J. Shi, J. Simpson, and X. Zeng, 2008: Goddard Multi-Scale Modeling Systems with Unified Physics, GEWEX Newsletter Vol. 18, No. 1, 6-8.
Matsui, T., X. Zeng, W.-K. Tao, H. Masunaga, W. S. Olson, and S. Lang, 2008: Evaluation of long-term cloud-resolving model simulations using satellite radiance observations and multi-frequency satellite simulators. J. Atmos. Oce. Tech. (submitted).
Tao, W.-K., and M. Moncrieff, 2008: Status and prospects of cloud-system resolving models. Reviews of Geophysics (submitted).
Waliser, D., F. Li, C. Woods, J. Bacmeister, J. Chern, A. Del Genio, J. Jiang, M. Kharitondov, Z. Kuang, H. Meng, P. Minnis, S. Platnik, W. B. Rossow, G. Stephens, S. Sun-Mack, W.-K. Tao, A. Tommpkins, D. Vane, C. Walker and D. Wu, 2008: Cloud ice: A climate model challenge woth signs and expectations of progress. J. Geophys. Res., (submitted).
Guo, H., Y. Liu, P. H. Daum, X. Zeng, X. Li and W.-K. Tao, 2008: Effects of model resolution on cloud entrainment, cloud-radiation interaction and cloud radiative forcing. Atmos. Chem. Phys. (submitted).
Santanello, J. A. Jr, C. D. Peters-Lidard, S. V. Kummar, C. Alonge, and W.-K. Tao, 2008: A modeling and observational framework for diagnosing local land-atmosphere coupling on diurnal time scales. J. of Hydrometeo, (submitted).
Education and Outreach
Judd Welton (613.1) and Sebastian Stewart (613.1/SSAI) attended the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on July 3 and presented the work of NASA's Micro Pulse Lidar Network (MPLNET) together with representatives from the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET). They brought a display model of a micro pulse lidar and were available to speak with festival attendees throughout the day.
Proposals submitted or reviewed
David Wolff (613.1/SSAI) served as a panel member for the GPM Ground Validation Peer Review at GSFC on Thursday, June 19, 2008.
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