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Science Highlights - 2006

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November/December

  • Azimuthal Variation of Hurricane Waves
  • Wallops UAV-Borne Spectroradiometer Installation & Oceanic Test Flight

October

  • Analysis of NOAA and NASA Surface Water and Energy Flux Data for Water Resources Applications
  • NASA-EPA Nonpoint Source Water Quality
  • Contributions from Atmospheric and Surface Features to Computed Brightness Temperatures
  • Homogeneous Long-term Temperature Records in the Upper Atmosphere

September

  • Water Vapor Profiling from the CoSSIR Radiometric Measurements
  • Greenland Ice Sheet Surface-Temperature and Melt-Duration Maps from MODIS: 2000 - 2006
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Sensor Integration System (OASIS) Fleet Grows

August

  • Air-Sea Gas Exchange Due To Rain and Wind
  • The Impact of Irrigation on Land Surface Water and Energy Balance
  • All-Weather Land Surface Temperature Retrieval
  • Coastal Research Along the Delmarva Peninsula and Southern Virginia

July

  • Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM)
  • Ship-based aerosol optical depth measurements in the Atlantic Ocean: Comparison with satellite retrievals and GOCART model
  • First Results from the Synthetic Aperture Radiometer: 2D-STAR

June

  • ImageAire Lite ii: Small UAV for Geothermal Observations
  • Evaluation of Sea Ice in GCM Simulations
  • Evaporation Minus Precipitation from Salinity Changes
  • ComRAD Tree Experiment - Summer, 2006

May

  • EOS Aqua AMSR-E Arctic Sea Ice Validation Field Campaign
  • Seasonal and Interannual Variability of Calcite in the Vicinity of the Patagonian Shelf Break (38oS – 52oS)
  • Corn growing season vegetation effects on L band soil surface emission

April

  • Physically Based Estimation of Aerodynamic Roughness Using Satellite Imagery Case Study: U.S. Southern Great Plains
  • Ocean Surface Drift Revealed by Tracking SAR Images
  • Using Google Earth to Bring NASA Post-Katrina Data to the Public

March

  • Arctic Sea Ice Surviving the Summer Melt
  • Data from the Nimbus 7 SMMR and the DMSP/SSMI passive microwave imagers
  • Average Minimum and LTM Sea Ice Areas, and February Averaged MYC Areas
  • Successful AMSR-E Snow on Sea Ice Aircraft Validation Campaign
  • Successful AMSR-E Snow on Sea Ice Aircraft Validation Campaign (continued)
  • NPP VIIRS Shows Great Promise for Climate Quality Ocean Color Observations
  • WA-COOL Project
  • BIOME: Optics in the Coastal Zone

February

  • Importance of Changes in Greenland Ice Sheet Melt
  • Increasing Greenland Ice Sheet Melt Area from AVHRR Surface Temperature Data
  • Sea Surface Waves of Hurricanes
  • Sensitivity of Numerical Land Surface Simulations to Model Physics, Parameters, and Forcing
  • Sensitivity of Numerical Land Surface Simulations to Model Physics, Parameters, and Forcing: Field Sites Selected for Evaluation of LSMs
  • Sensitivity of Numerical Land Surface Simulations to Model Physics, Parameters, and Forcing: Sensitivity of Modeled Evapotranspiration

January

  • TRMM Precipitation Radar Comparisons with WSR-88D Radar at Melbourne, Fl
  • NASIRF: The NASA Air-Sea Interaction Research Facility - Joint Heat Flux Experiments with Western Connecticut State University: Jan. 2006
  • Research and Development: A Surface Contact, Lightweight, Wave-Following, Multi-Sensor Float
  • Subglacial Lakes from ICESat and MOA, on the flanks of the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains, East Antarctica
  • Subglacial Lakes from ICESat and MOA, Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica
  • Predicting lidar measured forest vertical structure from multi-angle spectral data


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