Dr. John Worden (TES research scientist) provides insight into the use of water vapor trends in the analysis and modeling of Earth's climate system. more >>

The Winter '09 TES Science Team Meeting will be held February 23rd - 25th at the NCAR Foothills Laboratory in Boulder, CO. more >>

TES is helping to provide new information on the processes that control the humidity of the subtropical Pacific. more >>

The 2008 Aura Science Team Meeting will be held October 27th - 30th at the Sheraton Conference Center in Columbia, MD more >>

TES profiles for the vertical distribution of carbon monoxide emitted by the many wildfires burning in Northern California in late June/early July 2008, illustrate the fires' impact on air quality. more >>

The TES Science team eliminated all Global Survey observations south of -60 degrees latitude. more >>

TES science team members, Greg Osterman and Ming Luo, participated in Career Night at Garfield Elementary School in Alhambra, CA. more >>

Dr. Annmarie Eldering was interviewed by Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society, and talked about TES measurements and some of the newest scientific findings. more >>

TES team members attended the ASSFTS (Atmospheric Science from Space using Fourier Transform Spectrometers) meeting in November 2007 in Toulouse, France, and joined in discussions of the new results from spaceborne FTS instruments.

Members of the TES team will present talks and posters on their latest scientific findings at the Fall AGU Meeting in San Francisco, Dec 10-14, 2007.

The Fall '07 TES Science Team Meeting will be held Sept 6th and 7th at Harvard University in Boston, MA. more >>

The TES SIPS has installed the Level 3 software: the first Level 3 HDF5 grid data will be available from the ASDC site by mid-May.

Level 3 provides a global averaged data set with daily and monthly products available. more >>

NASA's newest detective in the mysteries of atmospheric water vapor tracks observations of heavy and light water vapor to retrace the "history" of water over oceans and continents, from ice and liquid to vapor and back again. more >>

The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Postdoctoral Scholars Program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) invites applicants for two postdoctoral research positions with the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) group. more >>

A NASA and university study of ozone and carbon monoxide pollution in Earth's atmosphere is providing unique insights into the sources of these pollutants and how they are transported around the world. more >>

By investigating the relationship between ozone and carbon monoxide, science investigators using TES data are able to detect pollution drift patterns, and may also be able to reveal ozone sources. more >>

The TES science team meeting will be held at the University of Phoenix in Pasadena on Nov 13 & 14, 2006. We will discuss instrument status, validation, science results, science planning, and algorithm changes.

When: Thursday afternoon and Friday, Feb 23-24, 2006
(following the COMMUNITY WORKSHOP ON AIR QUALITY REMOTE SENSING FROM SPACE) more >>

JPL Profile for TES Science Investigator Helen Worden more >>

Atmospheric Science from Space using Fourier Transform Spectrometry
in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada at Loews Le Concorde, May 18-20, 2005. more >>

Aura was successfully lauched at 10:01:59.344 UTC (~03:02 Pacific Time) on July 15, 2004 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. more >>

Aura was transported from NGST to Vandenberg Air Force Base, California to begin launch preparations. The spacecraft will undergo final tests and integration with a Boeing Delta II rocket for a scheduled launch in June.

The TES instrument was delivered to NGST (Northrop Grumman Space Technology in Redondo Beach, California) for spacecraft integration on April 28, 2003.