Category: Archive

Tony Busalacchi gave the opening and closing remarks at the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Conference, Denver, CO, October 24-28.  Busalacchi, who was Chair of the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee, also co-organized the Panel Discussion on Climate Science in Service to Society: Private Sector Needs and Opportunities.  There were over 1,900 participants from 86 countries which included 523 students plus early career scientists and 332 scientists from developing countries….

Ross Salawitch was quoted in RedOrbit, October 13, in an article on chlorofluorocarbons and geo-engineering solutions.  Salawitch was also quoted in ScienceNews, October 3, on this year’s Arctic ozone depletion….

Raghu Murtugudde was the seminar speaker at Millersville University, Earth Science Department, PA on October 6 and at the National Center for Atmospheric Research(NCAR) Boulder with the topic of Big History: Earth, Life, and Sustainability, October 13….

Raghu Murtugudde was quoted in The Hindu, October 10, in an article on the recent launch of the Indo-French Satellite “Megha-Tropiques.”  The satellite’s objectives are to improve the knowledge of the water cycle in the intertropical region and to evaluate its consequences on the energy budget;  to study the life cycle of tropical convective systems over ocean and continents, the environmental conditions for their appearance and evolution, their water budget, and the associated transports of …

Researcher: Zhanqing Li
Grant Sponsor: DOE-Washington
Amount: $142,042
Grant Study: Use of ARM Mobile Facility (AMF) Data to Study Aerosol Indirect Effects in China in Comparison with those in US.

Researcher: Xin-Zhong Liang
Grant Sponsor: University of Michigan
Amount: $136,500
Grant Study: Coupling a 1-D Diffusion Lake Model with CWRF Over the Laurentian Great Lakes.

Researcher: Ross Salawitch
Grant Sponsor: NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
Amount: $107,550
Grant Study: Assessing and Improving …

Eric Hughes and Wilfrid Schroeder et al. developed the project “Real-time Automatic Estimation of Volcanic Ash Cloud Heights” which has been unanimously approved for implementation by The NESDIS Satellite Products and Services Review Board (SPSRB). The project employs an iterative technique that compares satellite observations of volcanic SO2 and Aerosol Index from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (used as a proxy for volcanic ash) with numerical modeling computations from the volcanic ash …