Recent Talks by Climate & Radiation Branch Members
July 25, 2005
On June 21, 2005 Steven Platnick gave a talk to students participating in the Scientific and Engineering Student Internship Program (SESI) hosted by Laboratory for Solar and Space Physics (612). His talk, entitled ÒNASA Earth Science Observations: The View from SpaceÓ, gave an overview of Earth Science issues and NASA satellite remote sensing missions. Full Story

GSFC Awards of Excellence
July 25, 2005
On July 20, the MODIS Aerosol Algorithm Team was given a Goddard Award of Excellence for outstanding teamwork in the development, implementation and validation of the MODIS Aerosol algorithm. Full Story

Workshop on cloud-parameterization and cloud-radiation interactions held July 6-8, 2005
July 18, 2005
A cloud workshop was held from 6-8 July 2005 at Fort Collins, Colorado. In this workshop, all the key outstanding problems of prognostic cloud-parameterization and cloud-radiation interactions were discussed. Dr. Yogesh Sud (Code 613.2) presented some recent upgrades to McRAS, a cloud scheme in use in the Climate and Radiation Branch, as well as some new methodologies currently being evaluated to extract number density and dropsize distribution of cloud particles from first principles of physics of nucleating condensation under the influence of vertical motion.
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GEWEX Meeting held June 19-23, 2005
July 7, 2005
The fifth International Scientific Conference on the Global Energy and Water Cycle was held June 19-23, 2005 in Orange County, California. The theme of the meeting was ÒObserving and predicting the EarthÕs water and energy cycle: current state of knowledge and future research requirementsÓ. Many NASA/GSFC scientists from the Laboratory for Atmospheres (Code 613), Hydrospheric & Biospheric Sciences Laboratory (Code 614), and the Global Modeling & Assimilation Office (GMAO, Code 610.1) participated in this meeting as invited speakers, session chairs, and oral and poster presenters. Full Story