Weekly Report for the Week Ending March 6, 2009
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GSFC Laboratory for Atmospheres, Code 613
Noteworthy science achievements/awards
Noteworthy personnel awards and staff changes
Projects/missions
Significant planned events
Proposals
- Funded: Microphysical and Radiative Parameterizations of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions for Assessing Aerosol-Climate Connections with NASA GEOS-5 GCM Simulations. PI: L. Oraiopoulos (613.2) with Y. Sud, G. Walker, J. Wang, E. Wilcox, J. Bacmeister and P. Colarco.
- Funded: Assimilation of A-Train satellite data for constraining a new PDF-based cloud parameterization in GEOS-5, submitted in response to the the MAP program, and led by GMAO's A. Da Silva with branch members L. Oraiopoulos (613.2) and S. Platnick (613.2) as co-Is.
Highlights of inter-Directorate teaming
External interactions (HQ, universities, other Gov't organizations, etc.)
- Judd Welton (613.1), Si-Chee Tsay (613.2), and Brent Holben (614.4) attended a meeting at the State Department on Friday, February 6, along with HQ program managers Hal Maring, Jim Crawford, and Jay Al-Saadi and Jeff Reid from the Naval Research Laboratory. The purpose of the meeting was to brief members of the State Department's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs on upcoming joint field campaigns by NASA and NRL, which will take place in South East Asia. The field campaigns include the multi-year Seven South East Asian Studies (7-SEAS) Mission lead by NRL with NASA and local SE Asian support, and NASA's 2011 PACE mission. Welton, Tsay, Holben, and Maring provided a briefing on their recent January planning visit to Singapore, the Philippines, and Taiwan in support of AERONET, MPLNET, and SMART-COMMIT deployments in the region for 7-SEAS and PACE.
- Lazaros Oraiopoulos (613.2) has accepted an appointment to the position of fellow in UMBC's Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology.
- Lazaros Oraiopoulos (613.2) agreed to serve a second term as a member of the American Meteorological Society's Atmospheric Radiation Committee
Accepted papers
- Reply to comment by W. Schroeder et al. on Reversal of trend of biomass burning in the Amazon, Koren, I.; Remer, L. A (613.2).; Longo, K.; Brown, F.; Lindsey, R., Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 36, L03807, doi: 10.1029/2008GL036063, 2009 [Published]
- Physical interpretation of the spectral radiative signatures in the transition zone between cloud-free and cloudy regions, Chiu, J. C.; Marshak, A. (613.2) ; Knyazikhin, Y.; Pilewskie, P.; Wiscombe, W. (613.2), Atmos. Chem. Phys. Disc., Vol. , 9, 1419-1430. , 2009 [Published]
- MODIS observations of enhanced clear sky reflectance near clouds, Varnai, T.; Marshak, A. (613.2) , Geophys. Res. Lett, 2009 [In press].
- Two Contrasting Dust-dominant periods over India observed from MODIS and CALIPSO data, Gautam, R.; Liu, Z.; Singh, R. P.; Hsu, N. C. (613.2), Geophy. Res. Lett., 2009 [In press].
- Corr, C., N. Krotkov (613.3), S. Madronich, J. R. Slusser, B. Holben (614.4), W. Gao, J. Flynn, B. Lefer, and S. M. Kreidenweis, Retrieval of aerosol single scattering albedo at ultraviolet wavelengths at the T1 site during MILAGRO (2009), Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 9, 4971–5008, 2009. The paper can be viewed at: http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/9/4971/2009/acpd-9-4971-2009.html (non-NASA resource, opens in new window).
Noteworthy talks/presentations
- Dr. George J. Huffman (SSAI; 613.1) participated in the 4th Internat. Symp. on Precip. Retrieval Algor. and Global Precip. Map Using Sat. Microwave Radiometer, Radar and IR Data, 16-18 February 2009, Tokyo, Japan and presented the invited talk
- Huffman (SSAI; 613.1), G.J., R.F. Adler (ESSIC; 613.1), D.T. Bolvin (SSAI; 613.1), E.J. Nelkin (SSAI; 613.1), 2009: Review and Update for the TMPA in Near-Real and Post-Real Time. 4th Internat. Symp. on Precip. Retrieval Algor. and Global Precip. Map Using Sat. Microwave Radiometer, Radar and IR Data, 16-18 February 2009, Tokyo, Japan, presented. [invited paper]
- This meeting reviewed the recently developed Global Satellite Map of Precipitation (GSMaP) precipitation data set and provided a forum for U.S. and Japanese precipitation experts to consult on next-generation solutions to outstanding problems in satellite estimation of precipitation.
- Bo-Wen Shen (UMCP/ESSIC; 613.1) was invited to give a talk entitled:"Extended-Range Predictions of Madden-Julian Oscillations with the Goddard Multi-scale Modeling System" at the 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change. The 89th AMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, January 11-16, 2009. Co-authors include W.-K. Tao (613.1), J.-D. Chern (UMBC; 613.1), C. D. Peters-Lidard (614.3), J.-L. Li (JPL).
- William R. Cotton, Dept of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, gave 2 seminars: “Weather and Climate Engineering”, a review of various concepts for water modification especially for climate change mitigation; and “Aerosol Impacts on Convective Clouds and Storm Systems” which reviewed the recent findings of his research group. The latter was especially significant in context of NASA’s planned Aerosols, Clouds and Ecology (ACE) Decadal Survey Mission planning.
- Ralph Kahn (613.2) gave a keynote presentation on "Satellite Aerosol Measurements -- One Piece of the Climate Forcing Picture at the Department of Energy's Atmospheric Science Program science team, and highlighted MISR and MODIS contributions, and conclusions in our CCSP report, Santa Fe, New Mexico, February 23-27, 2009.
- Yi Ming, NOAA/GFDL, "Toward Understanding Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions", Code 613.2 Branch Seminar Series, February 18, 2009.
Major events in the coming week
Education and Outreach
- David Whiteman/613.1 gave a presentation to a group of Delaware elementary, middle and high school teachers on atmospheric profiling and satellite validation using laser remote sensing. The teachers were sponsored by the Delaware Aerospace Education Foundation in conjunction with the Delaware Teachers Center and were visiting GSFC hosted by the Aerospace Education program on February 11.
Issues and Concerns
Status of any major actions
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