Weekly Report for the Week Ending August 21, 2009
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GSFC Laboratory for Atmospheres, Code 613
Noteworthy science achievements/awards
Noteworthy personnel awards and staff changes
- Karandana Thishan Dharshana, a graduate student from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), working with Charles Ichoku/613.2 this summer on "Analysis of Errors Associated with the Estimation of Smoke Emission Rates from Satellite Fire Radiative Power Measurements over North America" has received the UWM Chancellor's Graduate Student Award for the second consecutive year. The award is intended to attract and retain graduate students with exceptional academic records and high promise of future success.
Projects/missions
Significant planned events
Proposals
- PI proposals were submitted to the Precipitation Measurement Program (TRMM and GPM science) in ROSES-09 by the following members of the Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Branch (613.1): Gerald Heysmfield, Gail Jackson, Robert Meneghini, Karen Mohr and Wei-Kuo Tao.
Highlights of inter-Directorate teaming
External interactions (HQ, universities, other Gov't organizations, etc.)
- Scott Braun (613.1) represented NASA in a meeting on Aug. 11, 2009, of the Working Group for Tropical Cyclone Research, an inter-agency working group (primarily NASA, NOAA, DoD, and NSF) whose task is to assess, analyze, and inform agency investments in tropical cyclone research. The group has compiled, and will maintain, a listing of funded tropical cyclone related projects, the research foci, and a mapping onto operational needs for the National Hurricane Center and Joint Typhoon Warning Center.
Accepted papers
- Levy, R.; Leptoukh, G.; Kahn, R. (613.2); Zubko, V.; Gopalan, A.; Remer, L (613.2). 2009. A critical look at deriving monthly aerosol optical depth from satellite data, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., Vol. 47, No. 9, pp. 2942-2956, 2009 [Published]
- Oreopoulos, L. (613.2), S. Platnick (613.2), G. Hong, P. Yang, and R. F. Cahalan (613.2), 2009, The shortwave radiative forcing bias of liquid and ice clouds from MODIS observations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., Vol. 9, pp. 5865-5875 [Published]. http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/9/5865/2009/acp-9-5865-2009.html
- Marshak, A. (613.2), Y. Knyazikhin, J. C. Chiu (JCET/613.2), and W. J. Wiscombe (613.2), 2009, Spectral invariant behavior of zenith radiance around cloud edges observed by ARM SWS, Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 36, L16802, doi:10.1029/2009GL039366 [Published].
Noteworthy talks/presentations
- Ralph Kahn (613.2) is presenting the keynote speech and N. Christina Hsu (613.2) is presenting an invited talk at the 439th WE-Heraeus Seminar in Bad Honnef, Germany, August 17-19, 2009.
Major events in the coming week
Education and Outreach
Issues and Concerns
Status of any major actions
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