Weekly Report for the Week Ending August 14, 2009
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GSFC Laboratory for Atmospheres, Code 613
Noteworthy science achievements/awards
- William Lau, Chief, Laboratory for Atmospheres (613.0), has been selected Distinguished Alumni of the University of Hong Kong. He will be honored at the upcoming celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the Faculty of Science, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong in coming November.
Noteworthy personnel awards and staff changes
- Laboratory for Atmospheres 2009 Robert H. Goddard (RHG) Honor Award Winners Announced
- Jose Rodriguez (613.3), RHG Leadership Award
- Richard Stolarski (613.3), RHG Award of Merit
- Nickolay Krotkov (613.3/UMBC), RHG Exceptional Achievement Award in Science
Projects/missions
- David Starr (613.1) participated in the Aerosol/Cloud/Ecosystems (ACE) Mission Meeting in Santa Fe, MN, on August 5-7, 2009. The purpose of the meeting was to elicit external community input on the current mission concepts developed by the ACE SWG over the past year. Also attending the meeting were Matt McGill (613.1), Charles Gatebe (613.2), Christina Hsu (613.2), Lorraine Remer (613.2), Mian Chin (613.3) and Peter Colarco (613.3).
- Santiago GassÛ (GEST/UMBC/613.2) will co-chair one session at the AGU General Assembly Meeting in San Francisco, (Session A39: "Marine Biogeochemical Cycles: A Second Look at Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Feedbacks") and one session at the AGU Ocean Sciences meeting in Portland (Session IT50: "Ocean-Aerosol Interactions"). These sessions are inspired by the preliminary planning meetings for the future NASA ACE (Aerosols, Clouds, and Ecosystems) mission, one of the missions recommended by the National Academy's Decadal Survey of NASA Earth Science.
- Lorraine Remer (613.2), J. Vanderlei Martins (UMBC/JCET/613.2), Manfredo Tabacniks (UMBC/GEST Visiting Fellow) and other branch members are performing mountain top instrument testing in Boulder, CO, August 9-16, 200
- Si-Chee Tsay (613.2) is attending the 7-SEAS (South East Asian Studies) supersite planning meeting in Taipei, Taiwan 8/13-14, 2009 and the third AERONET Workshop in Hangzhou, China 8/17-21, 2009.
Significant planned events
Proposals
- Changing Earth - Using NASA Data to Inspire Learning About Earth. (PI: Charles Wood, Wheeling Jesuit University and Co-I: Santiago GassÛ, GEST/UMBC/613.2), in response to NNH09ZDA001N-EPOESS,Opportunities In Education and Public Outreach For Earth and Space Science.
- Evaluation and Improvement of Cumulus Convection Parameterizations for Climate Studies using TRMM Precipitation Observations, (PI: Eric Wilcox/613.2), in response to NNH09ZDA001-N-PRECIP.
Highlights of inter-Directorate teaming
External interactions (HQ, universities, other Gov't organizations, etc.)
Accepted papers
- Lau, K. M. (613.0), and H. T. Wu (SSAI/613.2), 2009: Characteristics of rainfall, clouds and latent heating associated with the Madden and Julian Oscillation. J. Climate, PMM special issue (in press)
- Donglian Sun, W. K. M. Lau (613.0), Menas Kafatos, Zafer Boybeyi, Gregory Leptoukh, and Chaiwei Yang, 2009: Numerical simulations of the impacts of African dust aerosols on Saharan Air Layer on Atlantic Tropical Cyclone development. J. Climate, (accepted).
- Tao, W.-K. (613.1), D. Anderson, J. Chern (UMBC/GEST, 613.1), J. Entin, A. Hou, P. Houser, R. Kakar, S. Lang, W. Lau (613.1), C. Peters-Lidard (614.3), X. Li, T. Matsui (UMBC/GEST, 613.1), B.-W. Shen (UMCP/ESSIC, 613.1), J.-J. Shi, and X. Zeng, 2009: Goddard Multi-Scale Modeling Systems with Unified Physics, Annales Geophysics, 27, 3055-3064.
- Matsui, T., X. Zeng, W.-K. Tao (613.1), H. Masunaga, W. S. Olson, and S. Lang, 2009: Evaluation of long-term cloud-resolving model simulations using satellite radiance observations and multi-frequency satellite simulators. J. Atmos. Oce. Tech. 26, 1261-1274.
- Veselovskii, I, D. N. Whiteman (613.1), A. Kolgotin, E. Andrews, M. Korenskii, Demonstration of Aerosol Physical Property Profiling under Varying Relative Humidity Conditions, Atmos. Ocean. Tech., Vol 26, 1543-1557.
Noteworthy talks/presentations
- Scott Braun (613.1) presented a seminar entitled "A Climatological Perspective of the Role of the Saharan Air Layer on Tropical Cyclogenesis and Evolution" at the Naval Post-Graduate School in Monterey, CA, on July 31, 2009.
- Dr. Igor Veselovskii of the General Physics Institute, Troistk, Russia and visiting scientist to 613.1 presented a Code 613.1 branch seminar entitled ìRetrieval of Aerosol Physical Properties in the troposphere using Multi-wavelength lidarî on August 10.
- Shen, B.-W. (UMCP/ESSIC, 613.1), W.-K. Tao (613.1), B. Green, C. Henze, P. Mehrotra, J.-L. F. Li, 2009: "High-impact Tropical Weather Prediction with the NASA Coupled Advanced multi-scale Modeling and concurrent Visualization Systems (CAMVis)", submitted to the supercomputing conference 2009, which will be held at Oregon Convection Center, Portland, Oregon, November 14-20, 2009.
- Wei-Kuo Tao (613.1), Bo-Wen Shen (UMCP/ESSIC, 613.1), Jiundar Chern (UMBC/GEST, 613.1) attended the 7th CMMAP bi-annual team meeting in Fort Collins on July 28,29 and 30. The following were presented during the meeting.
- Shen, Bo-Wen, Wei-Kuo Tao, William K. Lau (613.0), Robert Atlas, Jiundar Chern, 2009: Hierarchical Multi-scale Interactions during Tropical Cyclone Formation associated with an MJO or AEW.
- Shen, Bo-Wen and Wei-Kuo Tao, 2009: Global Multiscale Modeling on NASA Supercomputers: Extended-Range Simulations of MJOs and AEWs.
- Chern, Jiundar, Wei-Kuo Tao, Toshihisa Matsui, and Bo-wen Shen, 2009: Evaluating Goddard Multi-scale MOdeling Framework Through the TRMM Triple-Sensor Three-Step Evaluation Framework (T3EF)
- Li, Xiaowen, Wei-Kuo Tao, Toshihisa Matsui, Chuntao Liu and Hirohiko Masunaga, 2009: Improving Ice Microphysics in a Spectral Bin Scheme Using Long-Term TRMM Observations
- Alexandre Correia (ORAU/613.2) gave a special Aerocenter seminar, Effect of smoke on cloud base height in the Amazon Basin, August 11, 2009.
Major events in the coming week
Education and Outreach
Issues and Concerns
Status of any major actions
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