Weekly Report for the Week Ending September 11, 2009
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GSFC Laboratory for Atmospheres, Code 613
Noteworthy science achievements/awards
Noteworthy personnel awards and staff changes
Projects/missions
Significant planned events
Proposals
- Melting ice, habitat change, nutrient flux, and salmon: Hydrological, biogeochemical and biological linkages between the Copper River and the coastal Gulf of Alaska, PI: Robert Campbell, Prince William Sound Science & Technology Institute, Cordova, AK and Co-I: Santiago GassÛ (GEST/UMBC/613.2) submitted in response to NH09ZDA001N-IDS , Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Science.
- Interactions and feedbacks between biomass burning and water cycle dynamics across the northern sub-Saharan African region, PI: Charles Ichoku (613.2), Co-Is: NASA/GSFC: John Bolten (614.3), Eric Wilcox (613.2), Shahid Habib (610.4), Fritz Policelli (610.4); UMBC/NASA/GSFC: Charles Gatebe (613.2); University of Missouri, Kansas City: Jimmy Adegoke, Jejung Lee; University of Nebraska, Lincoln: Jun Wang, submitted in response to NH09ZDA001N-IDS , Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Science.
- A MODIS-based view of ten-year global aerosol trends, PI: Rob Levy (SSAI/613.2); collaborators: L. Remer (613.2), R. Kahn (613.2), P. Colarco (613.3), R. Kleidman (613.2), G. Leptoukh, N.-C. Hsu (613.2), T. Eck (614.4/UMBC), and X. Xiong (614.4), submitted in response to the New Investigator Program (NIP-2009).
Highlights of inter-Directorate teaming
External interactions (HQ, universities, other Gov't organizations, etc.)
- Jim Irons (613.0) presented ìA Landsat Data Continuity Mission – Finallyî at the UMDCP Department of Geography Seminar on September 10.
Accepted papers
- Shen, Bo-Wen (UMCP/ESSIC, 613.1), Wei-Kuo Tao (613.1), William K. Lau (613), R. Atlas, 2009: Improving Tropical Cyclogenesis Prediction with a Global Mesoscale Model: Hierarchical Multiscale Interactions During the Formation of Tropical Cyclone Nargis (2008). (submitted to JGR).
- Shen, Bo-Wen (UMCP/ESSIC, 613.1), Wei-Kuo Tao (613.1), R. Atlas, Y.-L. Lin, C.-D. Peters-Lidard (614.3), J.-D. Chern, K.-S. Kuo, 2009 Forecasting Tropical Cyclogenesis with a Global Mesoscale Model: Preliminary Results for Twin Tropical Cyclones in May 2002. (submitted to GRL).
- Bosilovich, M.G., D.M. Mocko (SAIC/613.2), J.O. Roads, and A. Ruane, 2009: A Multi-model Analysis for the Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period (CEOP). J. of Hydrometeorology. Volume 10, Issue 4, pp. 912–934, DOI: 10.1175/2009JHM1090.1, 2009 [published].
- Impact of tropospheric nitrogen dioxide on the regional radiation budget, A. P. Vasilkov, J. Joiner, L. Oreopoulos (613.2), J. F. Gleason(613.3), P. Veefkind, E. Bucsela, E. A. Celarier, R. J. D. Spurr, and S. Platnick (613.2), Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 6389-6400, 2009 [published].
- Gautam, R. (UMBC-GEST/613.2), N.C. Hsu (613.2), K.-M. Lau (613), and M. Kafatos, 2009: Aerosol and Rainfall Variability over the Indian Monsoon Region: Distributions, Trends and Coupling. Annales Geophysicae [Special Issue: From Deserts to Monsoons] [In Press].
Noteworthy talks/presentations
- On September 4, the following Division members presented talks at the SED Directorís Seminar. The general topic of the presentations was Aerosol and Water Cycle Interaction: Perspectives from Satellite and Ground-Based Measurements over South Asia. (1) Introduction and Overall Strategy (Brent Holben/614.4); (2) Satellite Observations (N. Christina Hsu/613.2); and TIGERZ/Rajo-Megha Field Campaign over the Indo-Gangetic Plain and Nepal Himalayas (Si-Chee Tsay/613.2).
- On September 8, Tianle Yuan (UMBC/JCET/613.2) presented an Aerocenter Seminar, ìTERPS IN ACC: Torture EOS and Related data Products in Sync to Investigate Aerosol-Cloud-Chemistry interconnections.
Major events in the coming week
Education and Outreach
Issues and Concerns
Status of any major actions
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