Science Highlights: 2012
November
- Correcting Non-Uniform Beam Filling Effects for Spaceborne Weather Radars
- Above-cloud absorbing aerosol effects and direct radiative forcing
- Well-Calibrated Ground Stations Help Mitigate against Upcoming Gap in Global Ozone Profile Measurements
October
- New MPLNET PBL Algorithm Reveals Previously Undetected Diurnal Variability
- Multi-sensor evaluation of aerosol retrievals shows large errors due to multiple aerosol layers
- New fast simulator for cloud optical centroid pressure (OCP)
September
- Comparing high-resolution precipitation products over NW Europe
- Assimilating Simulated HIWRAP Doppler Velocity Data into Hurricane Forecasts
- Contribution of different cloud regimes to the tropical precipitation budget
- Characterization of Absorbing Aerosols Above Cloud from MODIS
August
- Raman Water Vapor Lidar Cal/Val Mission within NDACC
- Dust Direct Radiative Effects: A LW Assessment
- Vertical Transport of Pollution by Thunderstorms
July
- The Airborne Cloud-Aerosol Transport System
- Simulating Extreme Rainfall using the NASA Unified Weather Research and Forecasting Model
- Hailstorm, Tornado, and Rainfall in 2011 Consistent with Weekly Cycles Observed in Earlier Years
- An Unexpected Atmospheric Response to the 11-Year Solar Cycle
June
- First Snow and Ice ICESat2-Like Data from MABEL
- The First Study to Suggest Regional Bias Corrections in Wildfire Emissions Estimates for Global Models
- NASA’s Aura Satellite Illuminates the Signature of ENSO in Lower Atmospheric Ozone
May
- Validation of Cirrus Cloud Properties Derived from CALIPSO
- A New, TRMM-based Analysis of African Rainfall Seasonality
- The first online calculator for atmospheric 3D radiative transfer
- New and improved global measurements of fluorescence from space
April
- Dense Gauge Network Confirms Improvement in TRMM Radar Rainfall Intensity Estimates
- Mount Etna Plume Height and Eruption Style from MISR
- The unexpected stratospheric ozone response to the Mt. Pinatubo eruption – a puzzle solved
March
- Let It Snow: GPM Cold-season Precipitation Experiment (GCPEx) Observations to Improve GPM Satellite Methods for Detecting and Measuring Falling Snow
- Satellite observations of darkening of Himalayan snowpack by desert dust deposition
- First balloon sonde profile measurements of volcanic and urban SO2 for validation of OMI SO2 retrievals
February
- New Dual Frequency Radar Measurements For Satellite Validation – HIWRAP-ER2
- Continual Intercomparison of Radiation Codes (CIRC) to fill critical need
- Aura/OMI measurements show distinct enhancements in NO2 and SO2 amounts over the Canadian oil sands
January
- Does Dry Environmental Air Kill Intensifying Hurricanes?
- New AERONET product: Cloud Optical Depth
- Aura Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) sees BrO enhancements over the North Pole
