Weekly Report for the Week Ending June 5, 2009
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GSFC Laboratory for Atmospheres, Code 613
613 Weekly Report – Week Ending 06/05/09
Noteworthy science achievements/awards
Noteworthy personnel awards and staff changes
Projects/missions
- A nationwide consortium led by University of Maryland (UMD) won a competition for a new NOAA supported Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS) that will receive up to $93 million in funding over the next five years. PIs of the Cooperative Agreement Proposal are Phillip Arkin (UMD/CICS), Antonio Busalacchi (UMD/ESSIC) and Otis Brown (UMD/ESSIC). Bo-Wen Shen (Co-PI, UMD/ESSIC, 613.1), Wei-Kuo Tao (613.1, Collaborator), and Karen Mohr (613.1, Collaborator), who were invited to strengthen the modeling section, which lead the sub-project entitled: Utilize NOAA satellite data to validate and advance the regional and global forecast in short term (weather) and seasonal (climate).
Significant planned events
Proposals
Highlights of inter-Directorate teaming
External interactions (HQ, universities, other Gov't organizations, etc.)
- Wei-Kuo Tao (613.1) was just appointed to be an Affiliate Faculty member in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences of Colorado State University.
- Lazaros Oreopoulos (613.2) agreed to serve as a member of the advising committee for Hye Lim Yoo, UMD Dept. of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, Advisor: Zhanqing Li.
Accepted papers
- Impact of tropospheric nitrogen dioxide on the regional radiation budget, A. P. Vasilkov, J. Joiner, L. Oreopoulos (613.2), J. F. Gleason, P. Veefkind, E.Bucsela, E. A. Celarier, R. J. D. Spurr, and S. Platnick (613.2), Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 9, 12675-12706, 2009
- Liu, H., J. H. Crawford, D. B. Considine, S. Platnick (613.2), P. M. Norris (610.2/UMBC), B. N. Duncan (613.3), R. B. Pierce, G. Chen, and R. M. Yantosca (2009), Sensitivity of photolysis frequencies and key tropospheric oxidants in a global model to cloud vertical distributions and optical properties, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D10305, doi:10.1029/2008JD011503.
Noteworthy talks/presentations
- J. E. Yorks (613.1/SSAI), M. J. McGill (613.1), D. L. Hlavka (613.1/SSAI), M. A. Vaughan, 2009, Airborne Validation of CALIPSO Level II Data Products, 2009 AGU Joint Assembly, 27 May 2009.
- J. E. Yorks (613.1/SSAI), M. J. McGill (613.1), D. L. Hlavka (613.1/SSAI), M. A. Vaughan, S. Rodier, Y. Hu, 2009, Radiative Effects of African Dust and Smoke Observed from CERES and CALIOP Data, 2009 AGU Joint Assembly, 27 May 2009.
- Stephen Palm (613.1, SSAI) atteended the 12th Polar Meteorology Conference held in Madison, Wisconsin and presented the following paper: "The influence of Arctic sea ice extent on polar cloud fraction and vertical structure and implications for regional climate." Co-authors were Alexander Marshak (613.2), Yuekui Yang (613.2/UMBC), Jim Spinhirne (Univ of Arizona) and Thorsten Markus (614.1)
- Ralph Kahn (613.2) was invited to attend the 2nd Joint Atmospheric Research Panel for Climate (AOPC), Terrestrial Observation Panel for Climate (TOPC) and Ocean Observations Panel for Climate (OOPC) of Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), in Ispra, Italy, June 2-6, 2009.
- Si-Chee Tsay (613.2) is attending the UA-EPA NASA/NOAA annual meeting in Taiwan, June 2-5, 2009.
- Alexander Marshak (613.2) is attending a meeting at Boston University, June 2-3, 2009.
- Nickolay Krotkov (613.3/UMBC) presented a poster entitled, "OMI measurements of SO2 pollution over Eastern China in 2005 - 2008," at the Joint Assembly meeting in Toronto this week
Major events in the coming week
- Robert Cahalan (613.2) and Thomas Bell (Emeritus/613.2) are giving lectures at the symposium ìClimate, Statistics, and Satellites: A symposium in honor of Jerry North,î June 8-10, 2009, which is being held at Texas A&M University. The web site describing the event is here: http://atmo.tamu.edu/climate/program.htm
Education and Outreach
- Graduate Student Summer Program (GSSP) and Summer Institute Interns in Code 613.2:
- Catherine May, University of Nebraska, Lincoln (Mentor: C. Ichoku/613.2), Satellite analysis of fire radiative energy release and smoke aerosol emission rates.
- Quaraishi Kiran, UMBC (Mentor: A. Chu GEST/613.2), Satellite and model comparisons of AOD/CO ratio in source and downwind regions of boreal biomass burning.
- Ramdeen Vishana, Rutgers University (Mentor: D. Mocko SAIC/613.2), Study of Drought Indices Using Observed Precipitation and Land-Surface Models over North America During the Past 30 Years.
- Brandon Cottom, UMBC (Mentor: E. Wilcox/613.2), Tropical Forest Burning and the Hydrological Cycle of the Amazon.
- John Ten Hoeve, Stanford University (Mentor: Lorraine Remer/613.2).
- Dharshana Karandana, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Mentor: Charles Ichoku/613.2)
- Matthew Johnson, North Carolina State University (Mentor: Santiago Gasso GEST/613.2)
Issues and Concerns
Status of any major actions
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