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Science Highlights - 2005

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November/December

  • Ice Sheet Mass Changes and Contribution to Sea Level Rise
  • Global Carbon Cycle: Recent Progress Toward a Bicarbonate Ion Raman LIDAR
  • Global Carbon Cycle: Recent Progress Toward a Bicarbonate Ion Raman LIDAR (Continued from slide 2)

October

  • Hurricane Katrina Forced Extreme Changes in Barrier Islands
  • Development of global snow water equivalent (SWE) and snow depth products from AMSR-E
  • The PALS Program (Portable Airborne LiDAR System)
  • Evaluating UV-B Effects and EDU Protection in Soybean Leaves Using Fluorescence

September

  • Labrador/Subpolar Gyre Circulation Continues to Weaken
  • Updated Altimetric SSH and Geostrophic Velocity Field EOF1's
  • Precipitating Snow Signatures over the Polar Region
  • Scattering Database for Atmospheric Snow Particles
  • Upper Air Instrumentation: Research and Projects
  • Investment in Instrumentation Improvement is Having Positive Impact...
  • Enhanced Arctic Warming Signal
  • Ocean Sciences Branch Research Cruises
  • Relationship between dissolved organic carbon...
  • Hurricane Rita Waves
  • Observing The Ocean's Mixed Layer Depth Using Ocean Color Observations

August

  • A Physically-Based Soil Temperature Retrieval Model with Remote Sensing Inputs
  • Hurricane Katrina Waves
  • Coastal Ocean Carbon and Ecosystems study along the Delmarva peninsula and southern Virginia coast

July

  • Soil Moisture Retrieval Using "Effective Vegetation" with Simulated HYDROS Brightness Temperatures
  • Hydros Logo
  • Sea ice drift and its relationship to altimetry-derived ocean currents in the Labrador Sea
  • Recession of Glaciers in the Harding Icefield and the Grewingk-Yalik Glacier Complex, Alaska
  • Comparison of MODIS Daily Global Fractional Snow Cover Maps at 0.05 and 0.25 Degree Resolutions
  • Airborne Measurement of Hurricane Storm Surge

June

  • Sea Surface Salinity from Space
  • ICESat 2003-2005 Operations Periods
  • Assessment of EOS Aqua AMSR-E Arctic Sea Ice Concentrations Using Landsat 7 Imagery
  • Simulated Surface Salinity for December 2004

May

  • Airborne Science Technology Institute (ASTI)
  • Coupling High-Resolution Earth System Models Using Advanced Computational Technologies
  • LIS Impact on WRF Precipitation Forecast
  • Impact of ESMF on Coupled Performance

April

  • Early Phytoplankton Blooms in the Beaufort Sea
  • Hurricane Charley Impact on North Captiva Island, Fla.
  • The effect of changes in precipitation on sea ice volume in the Southern Ocean using data assimilation
  • Update on the MODIS Snow and Ice Product Suite
  • Forest Physiology Assesment Using High (10nm) Spectral Resolution Imagery
  • Regional Calibration of Satellite-Derived Snow Depth for Continental-Scale Hydrologic Modeling

March

  • New L-band Imaging Radiometer takes to the Air Down Under
  • Results from MODIS/Aqua Reprocessing in March 2005
  • Complex Permittivity of Antarctic Sea Ice
  • ICESat - Insights on Ice Shelves

February

  • Cloud Clearing Using 1064 nm 40 Hz Data
  • Feasibility Study for Estimation of Water Vapor and Precipitation Parameters using a 3-frequency Radar
  • GRACE Holds Promise for Satellite Based Monitoring of Ground Water
  • The Relationship of the Terra MODIS Fire Product and Anthropogenic features in the Central Siberian Landscape

January

  • Atmospheric Thermodynamics Responsible for the Antarctic Circumpolar Wave Along the Sea Ice Edge Around Antarctica
  • Low Temperature SEM of Snow Crystal Metamorphism in Winter Snow Covers
  • Hurricane Erin (2001) Brightness Temperature Simulations
  • Chlorophyll and SST around New Zealand's North Island


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