Weekly Report for the Week Ending October 30, 2009
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GSFC Laboratory for Atmospheres, Code 613
Noteworthy science achievements/awards
Noteworthy personnel awards and staff changes
Projects/missions
- The Measurements of Humidity and Validation Experiments (MOHAVE), being held at the JPL, Table Mountain Facility (TMF) in Wrightwood, CA, concludes October 26. The Code 613.1 (David Whiteman, PI) ALVICE and Code 613.3 AT and STROZ (PI, Tom McGee) Raman lidar systems have participated in this Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC) activity. Significant events that have occurred during the campaign include:
- demonstration that optimized Raman water vapor lidars can reliably retrieve water vapor profiles extending int
- the lower stratosphere
- quantification of water vapor and ozone evolution during stratospheric intrusion events.
- Testing and validation of the latest version of Crygenic Frostpoint Hygrometer, one of the standards for tropospheric and stratospheric water vapor profiling. More information regarding the campaign can be found at http://tmf-lidar.jpl.nasa.gov/index.htm.
- Christina Hsu (613.2) and Carl
- Wang (GEST/613.2) are attending the 7-SEAS meeting in Taiwan and Vietnam during 1-14 November 2009. The 7-SEAS field experiment is a joint NAVY/NASA project led by Jeff Reid (NRL) t
- study the direct and indirect effects of smoke, generated from the biomass burning activities, on clouds and precipitations in the South and South-East Asian regions. The intense observation period is tentatively scheduled t
- take place during 2010-2012 time frame. +Significant planned events
Significant planned events
Proposals
- Earth Venture-1 Venture Class Science Investigation: SOS-Ice (Save Our Sea-Ice, PI: V. Ramanathan, Co-I: Eric Wilcox (613.2). Arctic Climate, Clouds, Aerosols and Ice Mission (ACCLAIM), PI: P. Pilewskie (Univ. Of Colorado), Co-I: Steven Platnick (613.2).
External interactions (HQ, universities, other Gov't organizations, etc.)
- Gail Skofronick Jackson participated in the ACE workshop in Columbia, MD from October 14-16, 2009.
- Gail Skofronick Jackson attended the Women in Astronomy and Space Sciences Workshop in College Park Maryland October 21-23, 2009.
Highlights of inter-Directorate teaming
Accepted papers
- Y.C. Sud (613.2-Emeritus), E.M. Wilcox (613.2), K. M. Lau (613), G.K. Walker (613.2/SAIC) X.-H. Liu, A. Nenes, D. Lee, K.-M. Kim (613.2/GEST), Y. Zhou (613.2/GEST), and P. S. Bhattacharjee (613.2/GMU), Sensitivity of Boreal-Summer Circulation and Precipitation t
- Atmospheric Aerosols in Selected Regions, Part I: Africa and India. Annales Geophysicae. 27, 3989-4007, 2009 [published].
- Wilcox, E. M. (613.2), Y. C. Sud (613.2-Emeritus), and G. Walker (613.2/SAIC), Sensitivity of Boreal-Summer Circulation and Precipitation t
- Atmospheric Aerosols in Selected Regions, Part II: The Americas. Annales Geophysicae. 27, 4009-4021, 2009 [published].
- Waugh, D. W., L. Oman (JHU,613.3), P. A. Newman (613.3), R. S. Stolarski (613.3), S. Pawson (610.1), J. E. Nielsen (SSAI,610.1), and J. Perlwitz (2009), Effect of zonal asymmetries in stratospheric ozone on simulated Southern Hemisphere climate trends, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L18701, doi:10.1029/2009GL040419. [Published]
- Oman, L. (JHU,613.3), D. W. Waugh, S. R. Kawa (613.3), R. S. Stolarski (613.3), A. R. Douglass (613.3), and P. A. Newman (613.3) (2009), Mechanisms and feedbacks causing changes in upper stratospheric ozone in the 21st century, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2009JD012397. [In Press]
- Arola, A., S. Kazadzis, A. Lindfors, N. A. Krotkov, J. Kujanpaa, J. Tamminen, A. F. Bais, A. di Sarra, J. M. Vilaplana, C. Brogniez, A. M. Siani, M. Janouch, P. Weihs, T. Koskela, N. Kouremeti, D. Meloni, V. Buchard, F. Auriol, I. Ialongo, M. Stanek, S. Simic, A. Smedley, and S. Kinne (2009),A new approach t
- correct for absorbing aerosols in OMI UV, Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2009GL041137, in press.
Noteworthy talks/presentations
- Gail Skofronick Jackson (and a host of others) presented research and posters at the Precipitation Measurement Missions (PMM) Science Team Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah from October 26-29, 2009. She als
- attended several algorithm planning and NASA/JAXA coordination meetings October 29 - 30, 2009.
- Anthony B. Davis (JPL/Caltech) presented a Climate & Radiation Branch seminar entitled "New (and Poorly-Explored) Avenues for Cloud Remote Sensing, Both Active and Passive, Exploiting Time-Domain 3D Multiple Scattering Signal Models" on October 21.
- Ralph Khan (613.2), an invited speaker at the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) 28th Annual Conference, presented a talk entitled ÒMore than the Sum of the Parts: Satellite Aerosol Remote Sensing and its Relationship t
- Sub-orbital Measurements and Models$quot; in St. Paul, MN, October 26.
- Alexander Marshak (613.2) presented an AeroCenter Seminar entitled ÒSpectral invariant behavior of zenith radiance in the transition zone between cloudy and cloud-free areas$quot; on October 27.
- Charles Ichoku (613.2) is the Co-convener of the session on ÒBiomass Burning Emissions$quot; at the Global Emissions Inventory Activity (GEIA) conference in Oslo, Norway, Oct 26-28. The theme of the conference is ÒEmissions of Gases and Aerosols: Progress and Modeling Needs$quot;.
- Lazaros Oraiopoulos (613.2), wh
- will present a report on cloud and cloud shadow detection, and Michael Wilson (613.2/GEST) are attending a special Landsat Science Team Meeting on Landsat products for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission at Boston University, October 27-29.
- Jenny Wu (613.2/SSAI) and Yaping Zhou (613.2/GEST) and others are attending the NASA Precipitation Measurement Missions (PMM) Science Team Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, October 26-30.
Major events in the coming week
Education and Outreach
Issues and Concerns
Status of any major actions
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