Weekly Report for the Week Ending May 8, 2009
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GSFC Laboratory for Atmospheres, Code 613
Noteworthy science achievements/awards
Noteworthy personnel awards and staff changes
- Dr. Thomas L. Bell (613.2) retired on May 1, 2009 from the Climate & Radiation Branch after more than 30 years of service to NASA. As an Emeritus Scientist, Dr. Bell will continue to study and assess data associated with satellite precipitation measurement, in particular those related to the TRMM and GPM satellite projects.
- Alexandre Correia (613.2/ORAU), who has been working with Lorraine Remer for the past two years through the NASA Postdoctoral Program, competed for and won a permanent faculty position in the Institute of Physics at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Dr. Correia will continue his work with the branch for the next 6 months.
Projects/missions
- Si-Chee Tsay (613.2), Christina Hsu (613.2), Richard Kleidman (613.2/SSAI) and Jun Wang (613.2 Visiting Scientist) are attending the Seven South East Asian Studies (7-SEAS) meeting in Singapore, May 6-8, 2009.
- Robert Cahalan (613.2) is attending the TSIS Mission Group Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, May 4-6, 2009.
- Eric Wilcox (613.2) is attending the AIRS Science Team Meeting, Pasadena, California, May 4-8, 2009.
Significant planned events
- Dr. K-C.Moon, vice president of the Korean Institute for science and technology (KIST) will be visiting GSFC on May 18, Monday from 1:00 – 4:00 pm. He is interested in aerosol, and air pollution, particularly with regard to instrumentations. Dr. William Lau (613.0) plans to have a small gathering of experimentalists in the Laboratory for Atmospheres present brief 15 min presentations to him, and then have him tour one of our labs.
Proposals
Highlights of inter-Directorate teaming
External interactions (HQ, universities, other Gov't organizations, etc.)
- Charles Ichoku (613.2), Robert Cahalan (613.2), and Charles Gatebe (613.2.GEST), who provide scientific support to the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program (http://www.globe.gov/r), are hosting the GLOBE Director, Dr. Edward E. Geary, and the GLOBE Student Climate Research Campaign (SCRC) Coordinator, Dr. Donna J. Charlevoix, both of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), Boulder, Colorado. The visitors will meet with the Earth Sciences Director, Dr. Franco Einaudi, and several GSFC scientists to discuss areas of partnership for the successful planning and execution of the SCRC that will take place during 2011-2013. They will also present a Special Education and Public Outreach Colloquium on Thursday, May 7 at 10AM in room H114, entitled “Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE)¹s Worldwide Student Climate Research Campaign (2011-2013): Inspiring and Preparing the Next Generation of Earth System Scientists”.
- For details, click http://esdepo.gsfc.nasa.gov/calendar/view.php?id=203&year=2009&month=05&day=07.
Accepted papers
- McComiskey, A., G. Feingold, A. S. Frisch, D. D. Turner, M. A. Miller, J. C. Chiu (613.2/JCET), Q. Min, and J. A. Ogren (2009), “An assessment of aerosol-cloud interactions in marine stratus clouds based on surface remote sensing”, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D09203, doi:10.1029/2008JD011006 [published].
- Martins, J. V. (613.2/JCET), P. Artaxo, Y. J. Kaufman, A.D. Castanho and L. A. Remer (613.2), 2009, “Spectral Absorption Properties of Aerosol Particles from 350-2500 nm”, Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2009GL037435, [in press].
- "Yasunari, T. J. (613.2/GEST) and K. Yamazaki (2009), “Origins of air masses over an Alaskan glacier and implications for ice core studies in the North Pacific region”, J. Met. Soc. Japan, SOLA, [in press].
- Oreopoulos, L. (613.2) and E. Mlawer (2009), "The Continual Intercomparison of Radiation Codes (CIRC): Assessing anew the quality of GCM radiation algorithms", Bull. Am. Met. Soc. [in press].
Noteworthy talks/presentations
- Robert Cahalan (613.2) and Ralph Kahn (613.2) attended the European Geosciences Union, General Assembly 2009 Meeting in Vienna, Austria, April 19-24, 2009. Dr. Cahalan presented an invited talk “Global Energy Balance and Imbalance” summarizing results from SORCE and CERES.
- On April 29, Robert Cahalan (613.2) spoke to a meeting in Geneva of the Atmospheric Observation Panel for Climate (AOPC) of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on the topic “New Solar Constant (Total Solar Irradiance) and Implications for Planetary Energy Balance.”
- Ebert (BoM/CAWCR, Australia), E.E., M. Sapiano (UMCP/CICS), P. Arkin (UMCP/CICS), J. Janowiak (UMCP/CICS), D. Vila (UMCP/CICS), C. Kidd (U. of Birmingham, UK), G.J. Huffman (SSAI; 613.1), P. Kucera (NCAR), 2009: Comparison of high resolution precipitation products from satellite and numerical weather prediction. 6th Internat. Sci. Conf. on the Global Energy and Water Cycle, 24-28 August 2009, Melbourne, Australia, abstract submitted.
Importance: This paper reports on progress and plans for the first systematic, relatively fine-scale validation of both the new generation of "high-resolution precipitation products" and current numerical across a variety of continental-scale
- Richard Kleidman (613.2/SSAI) and Jun Wang (613.2) will be teaching a Remote Sensing and Air Quality Applications workshop in Singapore May 11-15, 2009. Participants from Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, The Philippines and India will attend the workshop.
- Gregory Leptoukh (610.2) presented a joint AeroCenter and Climate & Radiation Branch seminar, “Giovanni Update: Working with Earth Science Data Online”, May 6, 2009 at 3:30PM in Bldg. 33, Room H114.
- Joanna Joiner (613.3), Steve Platnick (613.3), and Alexander Marshak (613.3) attended the Optical Society of America Hyper-spectral Imaging and Sensing of the Environment meeting in Vancouver Canada the last week of April. Drs. Joiner and Platnick gave invited talks on AIRS impact on numerical weather prediction and cloud property retrievals from MODIS, respectively. Alexander Marshak gave a talk on how cloud edges affect aerosol retrievals to produce the so-called "blueing of aerosols.”
Major events in the coming week
Education and Outreach
Issues and Concerns
Status of any major actions
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