Weekly Report for the Week Ending May 29, 2009
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GSFC Laboratory for Atmospheres, Code 613
Noteworthy science achievements/awards
- Dr. W-K Tao (613.1) is the first recipient of “Excellent Alumni Award” from Department of Atmospheric Physics, National Central University to celebrate the Department’s 45th Anniversary in May 2009.
Noteworthy personnel awards and staff changes
Projects/missions
- Joel Susskind (613.0) and Louis Kouvaris (SAIC/613.0) both attended a Sounder Operational Algorithm Team (SOAT) Meeting held at the NPOESS Integrated Program Office (IPO) in Silver Spring, Maryland, May 20-21, 2009. The meeting was held to discuss the Calibration/Validation of the CrIS Instrument and its algorithms. Joel Susskind gave a five minute summary of the work being done by SRT.
- Oreste Reale remotely presented `Airs Impact on Atlantic tropical cyclogenetic processes in the GEOS-5' at the AIRS Science Team Meeting on May 05.
Significant planned events
Proposals
Highlights of inter-Directorate teaming
External interactions (HQ, universities, other Gov't organizations, etc.)
- The Laboratory for Atmospheres hosted a visited by Dr. C. K. Moon, Vice President of the Korean Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), May 18, 2009. Dr. W. Lau presented an overview of the Earth Science Division and the Lab. for Atmospheres, and Dr. Moon presented an overview of KIST, followed by presentations on SMART-COMMITT(Si-Chee Tsay), AERONET (B. Holben) and TWilite (B. Gentry), and tours of the laboratory facilities. The meeting ended with a discussion of future collaboration between KIST and the Laboratory for Atmospheres.
- Goddard Mesoscale Dynamics and Modeling Group (613.1) are collaborating with NASA Ames visualization group (through funded NASA MAP and NASA AIST) to produce high-resolution movies (30 -120 seconds and 1.67 km) using numerical model results (Hurricane, global mesoscale model, and Goddard Multi-scale Modeling Framework). For example, more than 20 movies are shown for Hurricane Katrina (2005). These visualizations can help to understand the evolution of hurricane and its effects on surface, boundary layers and upper troposphere. The following is an example showing the total precipitable water associated with Hurricane Katrina (2005).
- Eyal Amitai (613.1, Chapman University) gave a talk on "Evaluation of very-high resolution precipitation estimates" at the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) at the University of Maryland on May 12. He discussed the challenges we face in determining the accuracy of NASA and NOAA precipitation products.
Accepted papers
- “The sensitivity of U.S. surface ozone formation to NOx and VOCs as viewed from space,” by B. N. Duncan (613.3), Y. Yoshida (613.3/UMBC), S. Stillman, C.Retscher (613.3/UMBC), K. E. Pickering (613.3), R. V. Martin, and E. A. Celarier (613.3/UMBC) submitted to Geophy. Res. Lett. In Reviw
- “The temperature dependence of factors controlling isoprene emissions,” by B. N. Duncan (613.3), Y. Yoshida (613.3/UMBC), M. R. Damon (610.3/Northrup Gruman), A. R. Douglass (613.3). And J. C. Witte (613.3/Science System Applications), submitted to Geophys. Res. Lett. In Review
- “The impact of the 2005 Gulf hurricanes on pollution emissions as inferred from Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) nitrogen dioxide,” Yasuko Yoshida (613.3/UMBC), Bryan N. Duncan (613.3), Christian Retscher (613.3/UMBC), Kenneth E. Pickering (613.3), Edward A. Celarier (613.3), and Joanna Joiner (613.3), submitted to Geophys. Res. Lett. In Review
- “Sensitivity of polar stratospheric ozone loss to uncertainties in chemical reaction kinetics,” S. R. Kawa (613.3), R. S. Stolarski (613.3), P. A. Newman (613.3), A. R. Douglass (613.3), M. Rex, D. J. Hoffmann, M. L. Santee, K. Frieler, Atmos. Chem. & Phys. In Review
- Yang, K. (613.3/UMBC), X. Liu (613.3/UMBC), N. A. Krotkov (613.3/UMBC), A. J. Krueger (613.3/UMBC), and S. A. Carn (2009), Estimating the altitude of volcanic sulfur dioxide plumes from space borne hyper-spectral UV measurements, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L10803, doi:10.1029/2009GL038025.
- Tao, W.-K. (613.1), J. Chern (613.1/UMBC), R. Atlas (613.0/Emeritus), D. Randall, X. Lin (610.1/UMBC), M. Khairoutdinov, J._L. Li, D. E. Waliser, A. Hou (610.1), C. Peters-Lidard (614.3), W. Lau (613.0), and J. Simpson (613.1/Emeritus), 2009: Multi-scale modeling system: Development, applications and critical issues, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 90, 515-534
- Tao, W.-K. (613.1), and M. Moncrieff, 2009: Status and prospects of cloud-system resolving modeling. Reviews of Geophysics. (in press).
- Tao, W.-K. (613.1), S. Lang (613.1/SSAI), X. Zeng (613.1/UMBC), S. Shige, Y. Takayabu, 2009: Convective and stratiform rainfall processes ad their relationship to latent heating. J. Climate (submitted).
- Bell, T. L. (613.2/Emeritus), J.-M. Yoo, and M.-I. Lee, 2009: Note on the weekly cycle of storm heights over the SE U.S. J. Geophys. Res. [in press].
Noteworthy talks/presentations
- Tao, W.-K. (613.1), J. J. Shi (613.0), T. Matsui (613.1/UMBC), A. Hou (610.0), S. Lang (613.1/SSAI), C. Peters-Lidard 614.3), G. Skofronick-Jackson (613.1), W. Petersen, R. Cifelli, and S. Rutledge, 2009: The 20-22 January 2007 Snow Events over Canada: Microphysical Properties, Proceeding of the International Precipitation Group Workshop, 340-349
- Si-Chee Tsay (613.2) will present a special Climate & Radiation Branch Seminar, "Ground-based Network and Supersite Measurements for Studying Aerosol Properties and Aerosol-Cloud Interactions" on May 27, 2009.
Major events in the coming week
Education and Outreach
Issues and Concerns
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