Weekly Report for the Week Ending August 28, 2009
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GSFC Laboratory for Atmospheres, Code 613
Noteworthy science achievements/awards
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Highlights of inter-Directorate teaming
External interactions (HQ, universities, other Gov't organizations, etc.)
- Bo-Wen Shen (UMCP/ESSIC, 613.1) visited AOML/HRD (hurricane research division) and gave an invited talk entitled: Global Mesoscale Modeling with NASA Supercomputing Technology: Hierarchical Multi-scale Interactions during Tropical Cyclogenesis associated with an MJO or AEW.
Accepted papers
- Tian (GEST; 614.3), Y., C. Peters-Lidard (614.3), J. Eylander (AFWA), R. Joyce (Wylie Sci.; NOAA/CPC), G. Huffman (SSAI; 613.1), R. Adler (ESSIC; 613.1), K.-L. Hsu (Univ. of Calif. Irvine), F. J. Turk (JPL), M. Garcia (GEST; 614.3), J. Zeng (GEST; 614.3), 2009: Component Analysis of Errors in Satellite-Based Precipitation Estimates. J. Geophys. Res, - Atmos., accepted
- Bolvin (SSAI; 613.1), D.T., R.F. Adler (UMCP/ESSIC; 613.1), G.J. Huffman (SSAI; 613.1), E.J. Nelkin (SSAI; 613.1), J.P. Poutiainen (Finnish Meteor. Inst.), 2008: Comparison of GPCP Monthly and Daily Precipitation Estimates with High-Latitude Gauge Observations. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 48(9), 1843–1857.
- Fuqing Zhang, Jason Sippel (613.1/ Oak Ridge Associated Universities), Effects of Moist Convection on Hurricane Predictability, published in : J. Atmos. Sci.
Noteworthy talks/presentations
- 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 (CAMV is)", accepted by the supercomputing conference 2009, which will be held at Oregon Convection Center, Portland, Oregon, November 14-20, 2009.
- Scheel (Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland), M., M. Rohrer (Meteodat GmbH, Zurich, Switzerland), C. Huggel (Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland), A. Diaz (Met. and Hydro. Service of Peru), G. Huffman (SSAI; 613.1), 2009: Closing Data Gaps in Central Andes Precipitation Records Using Satellite-Based Estimation Methods. World Climate Conf. No. 3, 31 August – 4 September 2009, Geneva, Switzerland
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