Weekly Report for the Week of August 25, 2008
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GSFC Laboratory for Atmospheres, Code 613
Projects/missions
- Most significant accomplishment/milestone.
David Starr (613.1) attended the CloudSat Science Team meeting in Seattle and also served as panelist for the CloudSat End-of-Prime-Mission Review. EoPM Review is a new hurdle recently implemented by HQ. CloudSat has been remarkably successful so far, and the scientific progress toward meeting their Level 1 requirements was very impressive for just 28 months into this ESSP mission. Steve Platnick (613.2) also attended the team meeting and served on the panel.
Proposals
- Most significant proposals submitted/funded.
Proposal Title: Use of ARM observations and numerical models to achieve physically consistent representation of radiative and latent heating profiles.
PI: Wei-Kuo Tao (613.1), Co-I. Xiping Zeng (613.1/UMBC)
Source of Support: DOE
- Other significant proposals submitted/funded.
Proposal Title: Evaluation of model simulated cloud-radiation-precipitation properties using the merged surface-satellite dataset at the ARM SGP site.
PI: Wei-Kuo Tao and Co-I. Xiping Zeng
- George J. Huffman (SSAI; 613.1) was named as a Co-Investigator for the proposal "Enhanced Water Resources and Disaster Management Decision Support Systems in Europe by Improved Analysis and Forecasting of Snowpack, Avalanches, Runoff, Floods, Debris Flows, and Drought using High Resolution Multi-Sensor Data Assimilation, Atmospheric and Land Surface Models in the Alps of Europe and Region of Southeastern Europe", Co-P.I.s D. Matthews (U. S. Bur. Rec., ret.) and M. Brilly (U. of Ljubljana), submitted to NASA Research Announcement NNH08ZDA001NDECISIONS.
Accepted papers
- Most noteworthy papers.
The following paper has been accepted by the Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology.
Title: Availability of high quality TRMM ground validation data from Kwajalein, RMI: A practical application of the Relative Calibration Adjustment technique.
Authors: David A. Marks (SSAI/613.1), David B. Wolff (SSAI/613.1), David S. Silberstein (SSAI/613.1), Ali Tokay (UMBC/613.1), Jason L. Pippitt (SSAI/613.1), and Jianxin Wang (SSAI/613.1)
Items of Note
The following papers have been submitted:
- Braun, S. A. (613.1), and C.-L. Shie (613.1/UMBC/GEST), 2008: Improving our understanding of Atlantic tropical cyclones through knowledge of the Saharan Air Layer: Hope or hype? Submitted to Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. The paper is important because it uses data from several NASA satellites/instruments (TRMM, AIRS, MODIS) to examine the role that the Saharan Air Layer has in influencing the genesis and evolution of Atlantic hurricanes. In particular, it tries to show that arguments laid out in the literature about its importance have been overhyped.
- Adler, R.F. (UMCP/ESSIC; 613.1), G. Gu (UMBC/GEST; 613.1), J.-J. Wang (UMBC/GEST; 613.1), G.J. Huffman (SSAI; 613.1), S. Curtis (U. East Carolina), D.T. Bolvin (SSAI; 613.1), 2008: Relationships Between Global Precipitation and Surface Temperature on Interannual and Longer Time Scales (1979-2006). J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos.
- Xiping Zeng (613.1/UMBC) - Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology "An Indirect Effect of Ice Nuclei on Atmospheric Radiation."
Education and Outreach
George J. Huffman (SSAI; 613.1) participated in a workshop to develop Citizen Scientist informal education materials for EOS/Terra, 12-13 August 2008, Greenbelt, MD.
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