Weekly Report for the Week Ending June 19, 2009
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GSFC Laboratory for Atmospheres, Code 613
613 Weekly Report – Week Ending 06/19/09
Noteworthy science achievements/awards
Noteworthy personnel awards and staff changes
Projects/missions
- Sounder Research Team - AIRS NET-Meeting on June 11, 2009. Joel Susskind (613.0) is presenting a talk titled "Options for Accounting for AIRS Frequency Drift in Version 6." Lena Iredell (613.0/SAIC), John Blaisdell (613.0/SAIC), Louis Kouvaris (613.0/SAIC), and Gyula Molnar (613.0/UMBC) are participating in the meeting.
- Several members of Code 613.1 will attend the 8th GPM International Planning Workshop in Paris, France June 16-18. The meeting is hosted by the French Space agency and co-sponsored by NASA and JAXA to coordinate international contributions to the GPM mission, with a program committee chaired by Arthur Hou (610.1). The 613.1 delegates include Gail Skofronick Jackson, Scott Braun, Bob Adler, Wei-Kuo Tao, and Bill Olson.
Significant planned events
Proposals
Highlights of inter-Directorate teaming
External interactions (HQ, universities, other Gov't organizations, etc.)
Accepted papers
- Zeng, X., W.-K. Tao (613.1), M. Zhang, A. Y. Hou (610.1), S. Xie, S. Lang, X. Li, D. Starr (613.1), and X. Li, 2009: A contribution by ice nuclei to global warming. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., DOI: 10.1002/qj.449 (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/122454793/PDFSTART)
- Jackman, C. H. (613.3), D. R. Marsh, F. M. Vitt, R. R. Garcia, C. E. Randall, E. L. Fleming (613.3/SSAI), and S. M. Frith (613.3/SSAI) (2009), Long-term middle atmospheric influence of very large solar proton events, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D11304, doi:10.1029/2008JD011415.
Noteworthy talks/presentations
- Huffman (SSAI; 613.1), G.J., R.F. Adler (UMCP/ESSIC; 613.1), D.T. Bolvin (SSAI; 613.1), E.J. Nelkin (SSAI; 613.1), 2009: Characterizing Precipitation Extremes in the TRMM Multi-Satellite Precipitation Analysis. 6th Internat. Sci. Conf. on the Global Energy and Water Cycle, 24-28 August 2009, Melbourne, Australia
- David Whiteman/613.1 is attending the NDACC (Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change) Lidar Working Group meeting this week in Alliston, Canada. Dr. Whiteman will be making three presentations on water vapor measurements in the upper tropospheric and lower stratosphere by lidar and radiosonde in response to NDACC's new goal of monitoring climatic changes in atmospheric water vapor using the Raman lidar technique.
- Jeffrey Pierce, (ORAU/613.2), presented an Aerocenter Seminar, ìHow do uncertainties in plume-scale aerosol processes inhibit our understanding of aerosols, clouds and climate?î on June 16, 2009.
- D. Allen Chu (UMBC-GEST/613.2) is presenting a Climate & Radiation Branch Seminar, ìSatellite remote sensing for air quality application – relationship between AOD and PM2.5 using MODIS, sunphotometer, lidar, and in-situ measurementsî on June 17, 2009, 3:30PM.
- Lorraine Remer (613.2) presenting a paper, îChallenges to our Volatile Planetî at the Workshop on Linkages Between Regional and Global Modeling and Air Quality and Climate Change, Paris, France June 17-19 and presenting a paper at the Goldschmidt 2009 Conference, Davos, Switzerland, June 22-25, 2009.
Major events in the coming week
- The USGS-sponsored Landsat Science Team will meet next week in Rochester, NY hosted by Team Principal Investigator Dr. John Schott of the Rochester Institute of Technology. Jim Irons (613.3), LDCM Project Scientist, will co-chair the meeting. Other GSFC participants include PIís Bob Bindschadler (614.0), Lazaros Oraiopoulos (613.2), Feng Gao (614.4/ERT), Co-I Darrel Williams (614.0), and LDCM Deputy Project Scientist Jeff Masek (614.4)
Education and Outreach
- In connection with their roles as GLOBE Scientists, Charles Ichoku (613.2) and Charles Gatebe (UMBC/GEST/613.2) are attending the NASA Earth Science Education and Public Outreach (E&PO) Workshop in Warrenton, VA, June 8-10, 2009, together with several other people involved in education and outreach activities across the Division, Center, and Agency. The theme of the meeting is ìEarth Science in the National Interest: Working together to tell our stories in powerful waysî.
- 613.2 Image of the Week: "Cloud brightness changes caused by horizontal radiative interactions", by Tamas Varnai (UMBC/JCET)
URL: http://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/viewImage.php?id=261
Issues and Concerns
- A working group will submit a report to the NASA HQ Earth Science Division (ESD) on Friday, June 19, discussing the proposition of moving the LDCM Thermal InfraRed Sensor (TIRS) from the LDCM satellite to an OCO replacement satellite. The working group brought together people from NASA HQ, the Earth Science Program Office (Code 420), JPL, USGS, and the GSFC LDCM Project and Project Science staff. The group was given two weeks to formulate flight options and prepare rough order of magnitude costs.
Status of any major actions
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