Weekly Report for the Week of July 28, 2008
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GSFC Laboratory for Atmospheres, Code 613
Image of the Week
"Relationships between Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) and Aerosol Number Concentration"
Submitted by Y.C. Sud (NASA/GSFC) and P.S. Bhattacharjee (GMU)
URL: http://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/viewImage.php?id=240
Workshops, Meetings, Symposia
Ralph Kahn (613.2) participated in the NASA-Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency
(JAXA) Workshop on the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) Mission, Kauai, Hawaii, July 29-August 1, 2008.
Thomas Bell (613.2) will attend the NASA Precipitation Science Team Meeting and present a poster entitled, "Diurnal and Weekly Cycles of TRMM Rain Retrievals Compared with Lightning Data", Fort Collins, CO, August 4-7, 2008.
Robert Cahalan (613.2), Christina Hsu (613.2), Ralph Kahn (613.2), Alexander Marshak (613.2), Steven Platnick (613.2), Si-Chee Tsay (613.2), Warren Wiscombe (613.2) and other Laboratory members will attend the International Radiation Symposium (IRS) 2008 Meeting in Foz do Iguacu, Brazil, August 4-8, 2008.
Publications
The radiative susceptibility of cloudy atmospheres to droplet number perturbations: 1. Theoretical analysis and examples from MODIS, Platnick, S.; Oreopoulos, L., J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 113, D14S20, doi:10.1029/2007JD009654, 2008.
The radiative susceptibility of cloudy atmospheres to droplet number perturbations: 2. Global analysis from MODIS, Oreopoulos, L.; Platnick, S., J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 113, D14S21, doi:10.1029/2007JD009655, 2008.
Single-scattering properties of Platonic solids in geometrical-optics regime, Zhang, Z.; Yang, P.; Kattawar, G.; Wiscombe, W., JQSRT Vol. 106, pp. 595-603, 2007.
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