Winston Chao Goddard Honor Award Recipient
April 28, 2004
For his outstanding accomplishments in meteorological research in the areas of the monsoon, ITCZ, and tropical cyclogenesis Full Story

New Observational Evidence for Global Warming from Satellite
April 23, 2004
Increases in the concentrations of atmospheric gases that absorb thermal radiation ("greenhouse gases") imply as a climate system response, a rearrangement of temperature fields to compensate for the increased atmospheric opacity. The conventional measurement used in climate change study has been surface air temperature obtained from the WMO stations, which represents some combination of the surface radiative temperaturesand that of the overlying atmosphere. Measurements of surface radiative temperature from space, i.e. skin temperature, provide additional evidence of the surface response to increase of greenhouse gases. Full Story

A paper on "Dust transport and deposition observed from the Terra-MODIS spacecraft over the Atlantic Ocean" was accepted for publication in JGR
April 20, 2004
The paper by Yoram Kaufman, Ilan Koren and Lorraine Remer from Goddard Space Flight Center with Didier TanrŽ from CNRS and Paul Ginoux and Songiamo Fan from NOAA/GFDL describes a method applied to MODIS measurements to distinguish dust from smoke and maritime aerosols and evaluate the African dust column concentration, transport and deposition. Full Story