Weekly Report for the Week Ending September 25, 2009
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GSFC Laboratory for Atmospheres, Code 613
Noteworthy science achievements/awards
Noteworthy personnel awards and staff changes
Projects/missions
- Charles Ichoku (613.2), Hongbin Yu (UMBC/613.2), Jose Rodriguez, Mian Chin, P.K. Bhartia, Bryan Duncan, Randy Kawa, Ken Pickering, Qian Tan, Huisheng Bian, Maria Tzortziou, Nick Krotkov, Scott Janz, Joanna Joiner, Melanie Follette-Cook, James Gleason (all 613.3), along with Chuck McLain and Antonio Mannino (614.2) are attending the Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE) Decadal Survey Mission Workshop in Columbia, MD, September 22-24, 2009.
- Santiago Gassu (613.2/UMBC) attended the Aura Science meeting in Leiden, The Netherlands on September 14-18, 2009. He presented the poster entitled "The use of Aqua-MODIS derived Level 2 parameters to improve OMI aerosol retrievals".
Significant planned events
Proposals
- NNH08ZDA001N-GULF (Gulf of Mexico Initiative), ìImproved Hypoxia Modeling for Nutrient Control Decisions in the Gulf of Mexico (Hypo-G), PI: Shahid Habib (610) and Co-I Robert Levy (SSAI/613.2), selected.
Highlights of inter-Directorate teaming
External interactions (HQ, universities, other Gov't organizations, etc.)
- Ralph Kahn (613.2) presented a seminar at the University of Maryland, College Park entitled, ìAerosols Matter for Climate and Health: What We Remote Sensing Scientists Can Do to Helpî September 24, 2009.
- Mian Chin (613.3) was invited to attend the ESA/WMO expert consultation meeting on Sand/Dust Storm Warning Advisory and Assessment System (SDS-WAS), held in Barcelona, Spain, September 8-9, 2009. Mian Chin gave a talk entitled "Dust emission, transport, and effects on air quality: A global model simulation and comparison with multi-platform data".
Accepted papers
- Yorks, J. E., M. McGill (613.1), S. Rodier, M. Vaughan, Y. Hu, and D. Hlavka (2009), Radiative effects of African dust and smoke observed from Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) and Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) data, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D00H04, doi:10.1029/2009JD012000.
- Aerosol and Rainfall Variability over the Indian Monsoon Region: Distributions, Trends and Coupling, Gautam, R.; Hsu, N. C. (613.2); Lau, K.-M. (613.0); Kafatos, M., Annales Geophysicae, Special Issue: From Deserts to Monsoons, 2009 [In press]
- The sensitivity of CO and aerosol transport to the temporal and vertical distribution of North American boreal fire emissions, Chen, Y.; Li, Q.; Randerson, J. T.; Lyons, E. A.; Kahn, R. A. (613.2); Nelson, D. L.; Diner, D. J., Atmos. Chem. Phys., Vol. 9, pp 6559-6580, 2009 [Published]
- Ziemke, J. R., S. Chandra, B. N. Duncan (613.3), M. R. Schoeberl (610), M. R. Damon, O. Torres, and P. K. Bhartia (613.0), Recent biomass burning events in the tropics and elevated concentrations of tropospheric ozone, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L15819, doi:10.1029/2009GL03.
Noteworthy talks/presentations
- Dr. George Huffman (SSAI / 613.1) participated in the 2009 Meeting of the GEWEX Radiation Panel Working Group on Data Management and Access, 16-18 September 2009, College Park, MD, and presented the following:
- Huffman (SSAI; 613.1), G.J., R.F. Adler (ESSIC; 613.1), D.T. Bolvin (SSAI; 613.1), G. Gu (ESSIC; 613.1), 2009: GPCP Version 2.1. 2009 Meeting of the GRP WGDMA, 16-18 September 2009, College Park, MD.
- Huffman (SSAI; 613.1), G.J., R.F. Adler (ESSIC; 613.1), D.T. Bolvin (SSAI; 613.1), E.J. Nelkin (SSAI; 613.1), 2009: The TMPA as a GPCP 3-Hr Input. 2009 Meeting of the GRP WGDMA, 16-18 September 2009, College Park, MD.
- Huffman (SSAI; 613.1), G.J., R.F. Adler (ESSIC; 613.1), D.T. Bolvin (SSAI; 613.1), E.J. Nelkin (SSAI; 613.1), G. Gu (ESSIC; 613.1), 2009: Merge Center Report. 2009 Meeting of the GRP WGDMA, 16-18 September 2009, College Park, MD.
- Philip Gabriel, Colorado State University presented a Climate & Radiation Branch (613.2) seminar entitled ìThe Development of an Inexpensive, X-Band High-Spatial Resolution, Frequency-Modulated, Continuous-Wave Radar, September 24, 2009 in Bldg. 33, Room H114.
- David Mocko (SAIC/613.2) presented work on the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) drought monitor at the NASA Water Resources Principal Investigator Annual Meeting, September 17-18, 2009 in Adelphi, MD. The public release of 30+ years of hourly NLDAS data was also announced at the meeting.
Major events in the coming week
Education and Outreach
- Bo-Wen Shen (UMCP/ESSIC, 613.1) was interviewed by EARTH Magazine (http://www.earthmagazine.org/), published by American Geological Institute, to give comments on the recent article entitled "Maximum hurricane intensity preceded by increase in lightning frequency" by Price et al. (2009), which was published in Nature Geoscience. The article with Shen's comments was published in the July issue of EARTH
Issues and Concerns
Status of any major actions
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