Weekly Report for the Week Ending April 17, 2009
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GSFC Laboratory for Atmospheres, Code 613
Noteworthy science achievements/awards
- A NASA Hq news release entitled “ NASA Experiments Stirs up Hope for Forecasting Deadliest Cyclones” was announced this week, highlighting the recently published paper in Geophys. Res. Lett. by Dr. Oreste Reale (Code 613.0 / UMBC) and his collaborators in demonstrating significant improvements in forecasting tropical storm Nargis, using assimilating AIRS cloudy-sky retrievals in the GEOS-5 forecasts. The paper represents the first successful attempt to “hindcast” tropical cyclone Nargis using a global, high-resolution forecast model.
Noteworthy personnel awards and staff changes
- 2009 NASA Honors Awards for the Laboratory for Atmospheres were announced:
- Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal – Anne Douglass (613.3) – Note: Only one Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal was awarded to GSFC this year
- Exceptional Service Medal – Matt McGill (613.1) and Jim Irons (613.0)
- Outstanding Leadership Medal – Dave Starr (613.1)
- Group Achievement Award – OMI Instrument Team (613.3)
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External interactions (HQ, universities, other Gov't organizations, etc.)
Accepted papers
- Johnson, B. T.; Christopher, S.; Haywood, J. M.; Osborne, S. R.; McFarlane, S.; Hsu, C. (613.2); Salustro, C. (613.2/SSAI); Kahn, R. (613.2), 2009, Measurements of aerosol properties from aircraft, satellite and ground-based remote sensing: A case study from the Dust and Biomass burning Experiment (DABEX), Q.J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., [In press].
- Kahn, R.A. (613.2), D.L. Nelson, M. Garay, R.C. Levy (613.2/SSAI), M.A. Bull, J.V. Martonchik, D.J. Diner, S.R. Paradise, D.L. Wu, and E.G. Hansen, and L.A. Remer (613.2), 2009. MISR Aerosol product attributes, and statistical comparison with MODIS. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Rem. Sens., [In press].
- Lazaros Oreopoulos (613.2), Eli Mlawer, Jennifer Delamere, and Timothy Shippert, 2009, "The Continual Intercomparison of Radiation Codes (CIRC): A New Standard for Evaluating GCM Radiation Codes”. Current Problems in Atmospheric Radiation (IRS 2008 Proceedings), pp. 73-76.
- Lazaros Oreopoulos (613.2), Steven E. Platnick (613.2), Gang Hong, Ping Yang, and Robert F. Cahalan (613.2), 2009 " The Shortwave Radiative Forcing Bias of Homogeneous Liquid and Ice Clouds Observed by MODIS". Current Problems in Atmospheric Radiation (IRS 2008 Proceedings), pp. 569-572.
Noteworthy talks/presentations
- Warren Wiscombe (613.2) and Chief Scientist, Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program presented a Climate & Radiation Branch Seminar, “ARM Mobile Facility Deployments: Past, Present and Future” on Wednesday April 15, 2009 at 3:30PM.
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