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The Climate and Radiation Branch at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center supports a key NASA mission, namely, to understand and protect our home planet. We seek a better understanding of Earth's climate on all time scales, from daily, seasonal and interannual variability through changes on geologic time scales. Our research focuses on atmospheric measurement, numerical modeling, and climate analysis. We investigate atmospheric radiation, both as a driver for climate change and as a tool for the remote sensing of Earth's atmosphere and surface. The Branch research program seeks to better understand how our planet reached its present state, and how it may respond to future drivers, both natural and anthropogenic.
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Dust observations in the thermal IR during the NAMMA Field Campaign using the Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI)
January 11, 2009 — “The dust falls in such quantities as to dirty everything on board, and to hurt people’s eyes; vessels even have to run on shore owing to the obscurity of the atmosphere”. Noted by Charles Darwin in 1832 when he began his famous voyage aboard the Beagle off the west coast of Africa (Cape Verde Islands), this is probably one of the earliest sightings recorded of wind-blown desert dust over the Atlantic Ocean. More on this Image
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Participation in National Academy of Sciences Workshop
December 1, 2008 — Three branch members are participating in a "Workshop on Uncertainty Management in Remote Sensing of Climate Data" on Dec. 4, 2008 being conducted by the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC. Steve Platnick is a co-organizer and is also serving as Discussion Moderator for the session on remote sensing of aerosols. Lorraine Remer will speak on uncertainty issues associated with remotely sensed data sets for aerosols. Thomas Bell will speak there on statistical problems associated with remote sensing of precipitation.
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Pollution Causes Most Lightning Strikes Midweek
November 26, 2008 — Michael Reilly of Discovery Channel News published on Nov. 26 a news item based on an interview with branch member Tom Bell about recent research results showing a pronounced increase in summertime lightning activity in the southeast U.S. during the middle of the work week. The results support satellite observations showing similar midweek increases in storms in the region. Bell's research with Danny Rosenfeld of Hebrew University will be reported at the American Geophysical Union meeting next month.
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Jérôme Riedi
“Using clouds to observe aerosols”
January 21, 2009 at 3:30 PM — January 21, 2009 to 4:30 PM
William Skamarock
“Atmospheric Solvers for Future Climate and Weather Models”
January 29, 2009 at 3:30 PM
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