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Research
Research Activities
- Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor (ACRIM)
Home page for projects and information regarding the ACRIM projects and
for downloading data from ACRIM II, ACRIMSAT and other related data.
- Atmospheric Dynamics Group - Centre for Atmospheric Science
Focuses on fluid dynamical problems of understanding the
chemical-climatic environment. These range from the fine-scale mixing
of aircraft emissions to global atmospheric circulation and its
chemical and radiative consequences.
- Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) Project
AIRS will measure air temperature, humidity, clouds, and surface
temperature. Scientists will use AIRS data to better understand weather
and climate. The National Weather Service and NOAA will use it to
improve their weather and climate models. AIRS will fly aboard the AQUA
spacecraft of the Earth Observing System (EOS), scheduled for launch
early in this century.
- Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions
Investigates processes governing exchanges of energy, water, carbon and
trace gases between the terrestrial biosphere and the atmosphere, to
model changes in climate and the carbon cycle over the next 50-100
years as Earth responds to changes in atmospheric composition and land
use.
- CalPhotos Image Retrieval
CalPhotos is a system for content-based image retrieval. Users can
query for photographs based on their location or the objects they contain. Includes land,
air, and water images.
- Center for Earth Observation (CEO) - Research Projects
CEO supports a variety of Earth observation projects and brings
together faculty interested in remote sensing with students trained in
the technology.
- Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS) Scatterometry (ARI)
Scatterometers are unique among satellite remote sensors in their
ability to determine the wind direction over water. COAPS examines
animations of scatterometer winds to get ideas for new scatterometry
applications. They have generated wind animations for 37 overlapping
regions spanning the global oceans.
- CERES/ARM Validation Experiment
Compilation of CERES and ARM data sets, initially created for the
purposes of CERES SARB validation. With a few exceptions, the data
sets, which contain radiation and meteorological data, are available to
the scientific community.
- Climate Analysis Section at Nat'l Center for Atmospheric Research
Empirical studies and diagnostic analyses of the atmosphere and its
interactions with Earth's surface and oceans. Emphasis is on
atmospheric general circulation, meteorological phenomena, and climate
variations over several time scales. Catalog includes observational
data sets and analyses from a variety of sources in support of modeling
efforts and climate research.
- Climate Prediction Center at NOAA
Monitors short-term climate fluctuations. Diagnoses and predicts them
to assist agencies both inside and outside the federal government in
coping with climate related problems, such as food supply, energy
allocation, and water resources.
- Cloud and Aerosol Research Group (CARG)
CARG is in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of
Washington. The data it gathers is used to increase understanding of
aerosol-cloud-climate interactions in the Arctic.
- Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES)
CERES products include both solar-reflected and Earth-emitted radiation
from the top of the atmosphere to the Earth's surface. Cloud properties
are determined, using simultaneous measurements by other EOS
instruments. Analyses of the CERES data will increase understanding of
the role of clouds and the energy cycle in global climate change.
- Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network
Provides a wide range of information on ozone depletion and global change, including effects on human health. CIESIN's Thematic Guide
resource provides overview documents and full-text access to
peer-reviewed publications related to ozone depletion, potential
impacts on human and ecosystem health, CFCs, and more.
- Daily MOPITT Carbon Monoxide Validation
Researcher's page with daily CO evaluations of the MOPITT instrument
aboard the Terra satellite. For the Southern Great Plains, this site
also provides the most recent quicklook CO retrievals, an archive of CO
quicklook retrievals, and a map of sites.
- Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland
Site for College Park campus. Research areas include climate studies,
Earth system science, atmospheric chemistry and climate diagnostics,
glaciology, weather prediction and atmospheric dynamics, oceanography
and air/sea interaction, remote sensing and data assimilation.
- Earth Observing System (EOS)
EOS is the centerpiece of NASA's study of the Earth. It consists of a
science component and a data system supporting a coordinated series of
polar-orbiting and low inclination satellites for long-term global
observations of the land surface, biosphere, solid Earth, atmosphere,
and oceans.
- Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center (EDC)
Site for the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) National Mapping Division.
It houses USGS digital cartographic data products (US GeoData) and the
world's largest collection of civilian remotely sensed data covering
the Earth's land masses, housing millions of satellite images and
aerial photographs. EDC operates the National Satellite Land Remote
Sensing Data Archive, a high quality database of space-acquired images
of the Earth for use in studying global change and other related issues.
- Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center
University of Maryland research and teaching activities in Earth
Systems Science: satellite remote sensing of land, atmosphere and
ocean; land surface and atmospheric modeling; dynamics of climate and
tropical oceans; atmospheric aerosols; volcanology; glaciology;
atmospheric chemistry; and biogeochemical cycling; and more.
- EOS Interdisciplinary proposal - GSFC Code 916
An interdisciplinary proposal funded under EOS, "Investigate the
Chemical and Dynamical Changes in the Stratosphere Up to and During the
EOS Observing Period."
- EOS Land Validation Core Sites
Status of Sunphotometer Deployment includes maps and descriptions of the sites and measurements.
- EOS/ACRIM III Experiment
The ACRIMSAT spacecraft will carry ACRIM III, state-of-the-art
instrumentation for long-term solar-monitoring. This data is important
because the total radiant energy from the Sun is not a constant, and
small changes over a century or more may cause significant
climatological changes on Earth, such as global warming.
- GiST Indexing Project
GIST studies the engineering and mathematics behind content-based
indexing for massive amounts of complex content. The basis of the
project is the Generalized Search Tree (GIST), a template indexing
structure for indexing remote sensing databases and others.
- Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Works to advance data assimilation, and produces research-quality
assimilated global data sets for advancing the understanding of the
Earth system and climate change.
- Grassland PROVE (PROtotype Validation Exercise)
Site related to the prototype validation exercise for EOS land and
atmosphere products. This is an EOS coordinated test of validation
data, instrumentation, and sampling strategies.
- Harvard Forest Environmental Measurement Site
Research in the Harvard Forest in Massachusetts is automated and
monitors the concentration of a variety of chemical species, in
addition to general environmental measurements. These species include
NOy, NOx, CO2, H2O, O3, CO, and several different hydrocarbons.
- Home Page of Atmospheric Researcher
This researcher focuses on the fluid dynamics of the Earth's
atmosphere, with emphasis on the stratosphere at altitudes between
about 10 and 50 kilometers, which contains most of the ozone shield.
- Index of NCAR Ice Crystal Replicator Data
Summarizes profiles of microphysical properties of cirrus clouds, as
measured by a balloon-borne Formvar replicator. The data consist of ice
crystal images, calculated size distributions, and cloud properties
derived from the size distributions.
- Institute of Global Environment and Society
The Institute is a non-profit organization, dedicated to basic research
in climate variability, climate predictability and climate change. It
was established to improve understanding and prediction of variations
in Earth's climate through scientific research, and to share results
and research tools with society as a whole.
- Landsat/ARM Clear Sky and Cloud (LCSAC) Research
Research is aimed at forging a link between Landsat and the number one
unsolved problem in global climate modeling, the "role of clouds."
- LBA - Seasonal-Interannual Climate Variability
The proposed work will attempt to determine the local and remote
influences of land and ocean on Amazonian climate variability;
determine the contributions of land and ocean to climate predictability
over Amazonia as well as the potential limits of predictability; and
determine where observational monitoring may be most effective to aid
forecasting of climate anomalies and associated risks (e.g., drought,
fire, impacts to agriculture, transportation, etc.).
- MODIS Atmosphere
Home page for the MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging SpectroRadiometer)
instrument, launched on 18 December 1999 onboard the Terra Platform.
MODIS is uniquely designed (wide spectral range, high spatial
resolution, and near daily global coverage) to observe and monitor
changes in the Earth's atmosphere.
- MODIS Land Team Validation (MODLAND)
MODLAND will use several validation techniques to develop uncertainty
information on its products. Techniques include collection of and
comparison with field and aircraft data, and comparison with data and
products from other satellites. Site explains relation to EOS land
validation.
- Multiangle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR)
MISR collects global images of sunlit Earth in 4 colors, at 9 widely
spaced angles. The images are calibrated to provide accurate measures
of brightness, contrast, and color of reflected sunlight. Comparing
them gives information about aerosols, cloud forms, and land surface
covers. The data can be used in creating 3-D models and in the study of
climate.
- NASA Ames Earth Science Division Project Office
Contains links to various experiments and missions to study ozone and aerosols in the atmosphere, troposphere, and stratosphere.
- NASA GSFC Code 920.1 Calibration Facility
Facility that maintains instruments and NIST-traceable calibrated
sources to calibrate, monitor, and assess the performance of
satellite-, aircraft-, and ground-based remote sensing instrumentation.
Their instruments, sources, and expertise are available to US
government agencies, the international remote sensing community, and
academic institutions.
- NASA Langley Cloud and Radiation Research
Site for a team that is developing and applying advanced data analysis
techniques to interpret satellite measurements of clouds and radiative
characteristics of the Earth. This includes developing a globally
robust technique for retrieving cloud parameters and microphysical
properties.
- NASA Langley's Lidar Applications Group
Part of the Atmospheric Sciences Division at the NASA Langley Research
Center. Develops and applies advanced lidar systems to a broad range of
atmospheric investigations, such as the development and application of
airborne Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) systems for studies of
O3, H2O, aerosols, and clouds.
- NIST Optical Technology Division
Source of national measurement standards and support services to
advance the use and application of optical technologies spanning the
ultraviolet through microwave spectral regions.
- NOAA Earth Systems Research Laboratory
The Earth System Research Laboratory's mission is to observe and
understand the Earth system and to develop products through a
commitment to research that will advance the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) environmental information and
services on global-to-local scales.
- NOAA-Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
This program is designed to quantify the spatial and temporal
distribution of natural and anthropogenic aerosols in the marine
atmosphere and to determine the physical, meteorological and
biogeochemical processes controlling their formation, evolution and
properties.
- Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Simulation of Climate Variability over Amazonia
A research project of scientists at the Center for
Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA) and the University of New
Hampshire, in collaboration with colleagues at CPTEC and the University
of Sao Paulo in Brazil, to investigate seasonal-to-interannual
variability and predictability in the Amazonian climate system.
- Oceanworld
Includes questions and answers to topics related to the oceans, teacher
aids and links to information about oceans, icebergs, ice ages,
fisheries, El Nino, and explorations by satellites.
- Ozone Hole Tour (ARI)
Site of the Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge.
The tour includes glossary, images, movies and virtual reality of the
North Pole.
- Radar Interferometry Group
Radar interferometry uses synthetic aperture radar mapping satellites
to form detailed images of geological surfaces. Site includes
information about glaciers, volcanoes, earthquakes and other content.
Research unit is affiliated with two departments at Stanford
University: Electrical Engineering - STARLab and Geophysics.
- Regional Land-Atmosphere Climate Simulation System (RELACS)
A NASA EOS Interdisciplinary Science Investigation. Main subjects are
the atmosphere, land, and water resources, with a focus on the effect
of land-atmosphere interaction over the southeast Asian monsoon region.
- Remote Sensing Research
Beltsville Agricultural Center's site for remote sensing. They conduct
research on remote sensing technologies of benefit to agriculture,
forestry, environmental quality and global climate change concerns.
- SAFARI 2000 Test Sites
Maps showing EOS Land validation sites in Africa. Includes related data.
- SeaDAS - SeaWiFS Data Analysis System
SeaDAS is a comprehensive image analysis package for processing,
displaying, analyzing, and quality control of all SeaWiFS data products
and ancillary meteorological and ozone data.
- Simulation - Seasonal-Interannual Climate Variability over Amazonia
Site with summary and reports from research on "Coupled High-Resolution
Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Simulation of Seasonal-Interannual Climate
Variability over Amazonia."
- University of Colorado Aerosol Research Group
Covers both planetary and atmospheric science, including cloud and
climate modifications due to aircraft exhaust, polar stratospheric
clouds and ozone depletion, effects of ship tracks on cloud formation,
aerosol particles in Earth's upper troposphere, and stratospheric and
mineral aerosols.
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