Weekly Report for the Week Ending September 4, 2009
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GSFC Laboratory for Atmospheres, Code 613
Noteworthy science achievements/awards
- A NASA Group Achievement Award was presented to Ralph Kahn (613.2), Lorraine Remer (613.2), Allen Chu (JCET/613.2) and others for outstanding accomplishments in the successful Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites (ARCTAS) mission in Alaska and Canada.
Noteworthy personnel awards and staff changes
Projects/missions
Significant planned events
Proposals
- G. Heymsfield's (613.1) proposal under the Genesys and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) field campaign was selected. The proposal was to fly HIWRAP on the Global Hawk.
- Interactions between tropical biomass burning, clouds, precipitation and land use changes on a regional scale, PI: Lorraine Remer (613.2), submitted in response to NNH09ZDA001N-IDS, Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Science.
- Climate Impacts on Water Resources for South Asian Regions fed by Glacier Melt, PI: Eric Wilcox (613.2), submitted in response to NNH09ZDA001N-IDS, Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Science.
Highlights of inter-Directorate teaming
External interactions (HQ, universities, other Gov't organizations, etc.)
Accepted papers
- David N. Whiteman (613.1), Kurt Rush, (564.0), Scott Rabenhorst, (U. M. C. P./613.1), Wayne Welch, (Welch Mechanical Designs), Martin Cadirola, (Ecotronics, LLC/613.1), Gerry McIntire, (SGT/613.1), Felicita Russo, (CNR, Potenza, Italy), Mariana Adam, (European Commision - JRC, Ispra, Italy), Demetrius Venable and Rasheen Connell, Howard University, Washington, DC, Igor Veselovskii, (UMBC/613.1), Ricardo Forno, (Universidad Mayor de San Andres, La Paz, Bolivia), Bernd Mielke and Bernhard Stein, (Licel, Gmbh, Berlin, Germany), Airborne and Ground-based Measurements Using a High-Performance Raman Lidar. Part I: Airborne, submitted to the Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology.
- David N. Whiteman (613.1) Martin Cadirola, (Ecotronics, LLC/613.1), Demetrius Venable and Rasheen Connell, (Howard University, Washington, DC), Kurt Rush, (564.0), Thierry Leblanc and Stuart McDermid, (JPL), Holger Vömel, (Lindenberg Observatory, Germany), Airborne and Ground-based Measurements Using a High-Performance Raman Lidar. Part II: Ground-based, submitted to the Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
- Heymsfield, G.M. (613.1), L. Tian, A.J. Heymsfield, L. Li, and S. Guimond entitled "Characteristics of Deep Tropical and Sub-Tropical Convection from Nadir-Viewing High-Altitude Airborne Doppler Radar" was accepted for publication for a special edition of J. Atmos. Science on NAMMA and TCSP field campaigns.
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.
- 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: Status and Outlook for Obsevation-Based Quantitative Precipitation Estimation at High Latitudes. 6th Internat. Sci. Conf. on the Global Energy and Water Cycle, 24-28 August 2009, Melbourne, Australia.
- Adler (UMCP/ESSIC; 613.1), R.F., G. Gu (GEST; 613.1), G.J. Huffman (SSAI; 613.1), 2009: Relationships between Global Precipitation and Surface Temperature on Inter-annual and Longer Time Scales. 6th Internat. Sci. Conf. on the Global Energy and Water Cycle, 24-28 August 2009, Melbourne, Australia.
- Adler (UMCP/ESSIC; 613.1), R.F., G. Gu (GEST; 613.1), G.J. Huffman (SSAI; 613.1), J.J. Wang (GEST; 613.1), 2009: Global Climatology of Surface Precipitation—State of Knowledge and Estimates of Bias Error. 6th Internat. Sci. Conf. on the Global Energy and Water Cycle, 24-28 August 2009, Melbourne, Australia.
- Ebert (BoM/CAWCR, Australia), E.E., M. Sapiano (UMCP/CICS), P. Arkin (UMCP/CICS), J. Janowiak (UMCP/CICS), D. Vila (UMCP/CICS), C. Kidd (U. of Birmingham, UK), G.J. Huffman (SSAI; 613.1), P. Kucera (NCAR), 2009: Comparison of high resolution precipitation products from satellite and numerical weather prediction. 6th Internat. Sci. Conf. on the Global Energy and Water Cycle, 24-28 August 2009, Melbourne, Australia.
- Tian (GEST; 614.3), Y., R.F. Adler (UMCP/ESSIC; 613.1), C.D. Peters-Lidard (614.3), G.J. Huffman (SSAI; 613.1), D.T. Bolvin (SSAI; 613.1), 2009: The Impact of Errors in NWP Precipitation Forecasts on Global Water and Energy Fluxes. 6th Internat. Sci. Conf. on the Global Energy and Water Cycle, 24-28 August 2009, Melbourne, Australia.
- Shie (GEST; 613.1), C.-L., L. S. Chiu (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong), R. Adler (ESSIC; 613.1), I-I Lin (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong), P. Xie (NOAA/CPC), E. Nelkin (SSAI; 613.1), R. Chokngamwong (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong), 2009: Reviving the Goddard Satellite-based Surface Turbulent Fluxes (GSSTF) dataset: Preliminary Findings. 6th Internat. Sci. Conf. on the Global Energy and Water Cycle, 24-28 August 2009, Melbourne, Australia.
Major events in the coming week
Education and Outreach
Issues and Concerns
Status of any major actions
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