Month: April 2013

Assistant Research Scientist, Dr. Isaac Moradi, will be the featured speaker at the CUNY CREST seminar series, Thursday, April 18, 2013, at the City University of New York (CUNY). Moradi’s talk – “Microwave Satellite Data and Products: Bias Correction and Application” – will describe the results of a comprehensive study on the bias correction and validation for different MW sensors. Moradi will also discuss retrieval algorithms and the application of tropospheric humidity data derived from …

Photo courtesy of Jackie Richter-Menge Sinead Farrell is one of 17 scientists in NASA’s Operation IceBridge working until 2017 to study climate change through trends in Arctic ice thickness over the years. Farrell’s team took measurements using electromagnetic radiation that showed dramatic changes, potentially threatening Arctic animals. Photo courtesy of Jackie Richter-Menge

NASA Operation IceBridge

NASA Operation IceBridge researchers spent nine days studying how the polar …

Li-Chuan Chen and collaborator, Kingtse Mo (NOAA), developed the first application product using the National Multi-Model Ensemble (NMME) forecasts for meteorological drought prediction. The new product has shown higher predictive skill than that based on single-model forecasts and is delivered in real time on NOAA Climate Prediction Center website….

Associate research scientist, Hongbin Yu and colleagues at UMBC (Lorraine Remer) and NASA (Ralph Kahn, Mian Chin, Yan Zhang) published a review paper in the Atmospheric Research journal entitled “Satellite perspective of aerosol intercontinental transport: From qualitative tracking to quantitative characterization.” Yu was invited by the editorial board to contribute this piece following his invited presentation at the 2011 Goldschmidt Conference in Prague, Czech Republic….

Associate research scientist, Hongbin Yu and Zhibo Zhang (UMBC) recently made an invited contribution to the New Directions column of the Atmospheric Environment journal, entitled “Emerging satellite observations of above-cloud aerosols and direct radiative forcing“….

Associate research scientist, Hongbin Yu recently co-authored a paper on “Global and regional temperature-change potentials for near-term climate forcers” (Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, 2471-2485, 2013). The paper is highlighted in the April issue of Nature Climate Change entitled “Short-term Impacts.”…

Dr. Bo-Wen Shen, ESSIC Associate Research Scientist and Principal Investigator of the NASA AIST CAMVis Project, was published in the March-April 2013 issue of Computing in Science and Engineering (vol. 15, no. 2).   The paper titled “Advanced Visualizations of Scale Interactions of Tropical Cyclone Formation and Tropical Waves,” discusses Shen’s hurricane prediction research, which bundles multi-scale modeling, supercomputing and visualization. Formally known as the Coupled NASA Advanced …